Katherine Ryan comes for Will Smith after Chris Rock Oscars slap: ‘Can’t take a joke, stay home’

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Katherine Ryan has offered her two pennies’ worth on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, saying that if the actor ‘can’t take a joke’ he should ‘stay home’.Moments before he received the 2022 Academy Award for best actor for his turn in King Richard, Smith stormed up onto the stage to smack comedian Chris Rock across the face after he made a ‘GI Jane’ joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair.Red Table Talk host Pinkett Smith has previously spoken about her struggles with alopecia and said it is what prompted her to shave her head.Her husband then shouted that Rock should ‘keep my wife’s name out of your f*****g mouth’ as he returned to his seat.Plenty of celebrities offered a reaction to the slap, with many backing Smith for protecting his family and slamming the joke, but Ryan rounded on Smith’s reaction and said that to be ‘insulted’ was ‘the point of the celeb monologue’.Having opened up a discussion with her social media followers on the slap, Ryan then took to her Instagram Stories to share her point of view with snapshots of conversation threads.One fan wrote in response: ‘I don’t condone what he did, violence is never the answer but just because Chris is a ‘comedian’, it means Will has to sit and watch his wife be insulted?

Chris shouldn’t have said it, Will shouldn’t have hit him.’Ryan replied: ‘Yes, he has to sit and watch his wife be insulted, yes that’s the point of the celeb monologue.’‘Can’t take a joke, stay home,’ she added.Another follower raised the issue of the slap itself overshadowing ‘the humiliation of a black woman’ and pointed out that the ‘politicisation and policing of black hair has been rife for centuries’ with Rock’s derogatory comment being ‘well below the belt and incredibly.