Ricky Gervais subtly shares his views on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars

The fate of whether Will Smith will get to keep his award for Best Actor will be revealed on Friday — well, once the Academy makes up its mind!

Chris Rock during the 94th Annual Academy Awards, David Oyelowo is speaking out about his feelings on the incident. Oyelowo penned an op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter examining the possible ramifications of that altercation.

Jada Pinkett Smith recalled 'crying down the freaking aisle' at her 'horrible' shotgun wedding to Will Smith in a resurfaced clip from her show Red Table Talk.Will, 53, is awaiting a decision from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Scientists about his potential penalty for slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars over a joke he made about Jada.Now a 2018 episode of Red Table Talkhas begun circulating online where Will appeared as a guest and Jada insisted she 'never wanted to get married.' Throwback:Jada Pinkett Smith recalled 'crying down the freaking aisle' at her 'horrible' shotgun wedding to Will Smith in a resurfaced clip from her show Red Table Talk The big day:Will and Jada got married on New Year's Eve 1997 at the Gothic-style Cloisters Castle in a suburb of her hometown of BaltimoreWill has been a guest multiple times on the talk show, which Jada hosts with her mother Adrienne 'Gammy' Banfield-Norris and daughter Willow Smith.The series hit the headlines in 2020 when Jada brought Will on to discuss her extramarital 'entanglement' with the rapper August Alsina. Since then Will has argued in GQthat 'marriage for us can’t be a prison' and revealed 'Jada never believed in conventional marriage.'Jada herself discussed her reservations about marriage in the resurfaced Red Table Talk episode from 2018, revealing that she decided to tie the knot with Will in order to placate her mother after getting pregnant.

“Django Unchained.”A 2016 roundtable interview with the Hollywood Reporter has re-emerged following the controversy surrounding Smith and his disorderly conduct at the Oscars on March 27. The “King Richard” star went onstage and slapped and cursed at presenter Chris Rock during the live telecast ceremony after the comic made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and her bald head.

August Alsina is not looking to cash in on details of his past "entanglement" with Jada Pinkett Smith. The 29-year-old musician has found himself back in the headlines after Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars went viral.The R&B singer is known for his past relationship with Pinkett Smith, which she revealed took place in 2015 when she and Smith were on a break. Reports this week suggested Alsina is planning a tell-all about his relationship with Smith's wife, so he took to Instagram to set the record straight.

over The Slap slated to be decided today, the Academy board is reportedly divided on whether to confiscate the “Hancock” actor’s Best Actor Oscar.“The members — of which there are over 9,000, with hundreds of WhatsApp groups flying about — are completely split,” an LA Source told The Sun of the hearing by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Tinseltown tribunal was originally scheduled to transpire on April 18, but was moved up to today following the 54-year-old’s resignation from the Academy.Smith, who won the best actor Academy Award for his role in “King Richard,” slapped Oscars host Chris Rock after the 57-year-old comic made a “bald” crack about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, who has alopecia.

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Will Smith will discover whether he will lose his Academy Award today. The King Richard actor could be stripped of his Oscar on Friday. The vote between Academy governors is reportedly 50/50.

Billy Crystal thinks Will Smith's Oscar slap was "assault". The 74-year-old actor has labelled the incident at the 94th Academy Awards, which saw actor Will smack comedian Chris Rock after he made a joke about Will’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaven head on the same night he picked up his Best Actor statuette for his role in ‘King Richard’, as "disturbing" and an "assault. " He said: "It was a most disturbing incident for sure.

Will Smith faces further humiliation amid his Oscars slap controversy, as the man who had an affair with his wife Jada Pinkett Smith is speaking out in a new song and rumored tell-all book.Jada, 50, famously referred to the years-long affair with R&B singer August Alsina, 29, as an 'entanglement' which now features as a timely reference in his brand new track 'Shake the World.''Well, of course some s**t is bound to go down when you tangled up with the world's favorite,' August is heard singing in a snippet that he teased on Monday via his Instagram page.Jada admitted to having an affair with August in 2020, and even had Will on her talk show Red Table Talk to discuss it in front of the world last year. Will Smith faces more humiliation as Jada Pinkett Smith's ex-lover August Alsina references 'entanglement' affair in new song and is 'set to write tell-all book about their sex life'It's also been reported that August - who was only 23 when he first met Jada - is set to write a tell-all book that will go into detail over their sex life.'August is getting ready to sign a big money book deal which will detail his romantic liaisons with Jada,' a source claims to The Sun.

Chris Rockwas spotted looking somber on a solo outing in New York City after his brother Keith slammed Will Smith and said The Academy should strip him of his Oscar a week-and-a-half after the now notorious slapping altercation.The 57-year-old comedian was all by his lonesome walking with his hands in his bomber jacket out in the Big Apple on Tuesday morning.Meanwhile his 42-year-old younger brother Kenny told the Los Angeles Times that he has had trouble repeatedly watching the now infamous moment involving his brother from last week's Oscars ceremony and that he should be stripped of the Best Actor trophy.He said: 'It eats at me watching it over and over again because you've seen a loved one being attacked and there's nothing you can do about it. Tough times:Chris Rock was spotted looking somber on a solo outing in New York City after his brother Keith slammed Will Smith and said The Academy should strip him of his Oscar a week-and-a-half after the now notorious slapping altercation Infamous:Chris was famously slapped by Will after making a joke about wife Jada's bald head while presenting Best Documentary at The Oscars last Sunday'Every time I'm watching the videos, it's like a rendition that just keeps going over and over in my head.'Kenny continued to express his distaste for the A-list actor's actions.He said: 'My brother was no threat to him and you just had no respect for him at that moment.

Will Smith could find out his Oscars fate within hours.

ACTOR Will Smith will find out tomorrow if he will lose his Oscar — with Academy governors said to be split 50-50. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been deciding if it should take back Smith’s Best Actor gong after he slapped Chris Rock during last month’s awards ceremony.

Ricky Gervais gave fans a more fulsome idea of what his jokes would have been, had be been in Chris Rock’s place at the Oscars.

The aftermath of Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock onstage during the 2022 Oscars has reportedly been a "nightmare" for his family. A source told Us Weekly that "it’s been a nightmare for everyone." "Will knows the road to redemption is going to be a long and painful one, and there’s a part of him that’s grown to accept he’ll never be able to fully repair the damage that was caused," the outlet reported.  The Smith family at the 2022 Oscars. (Patrick T.

Reddit since it popped up in the wake of Smith’s assault on comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars last month. The 53-year-old actor made international news when he stormed the stage at the awards show and slapped Rock across the face for making a joke about Pinkett Smith’s alopecia.

Billy Crystal's weighing in on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards, and the 74-year-old comedian's not mincing words when describing what he says transpired.During an appearance on Bob Costa's HBO Max show, Crystal said what the star did in physically confronting Rock was «assault.»«It was a most disturbing incident for sure. It was an assault,» Crystal said.

Jada Pinkett Smith’s ex is “sticking” it to the haters. August Alsina, 29, is addressing claims that he is in the midst of authoring a tell-all tome about his much-storied, lusty romance with Oscar-winner Will Smith’s wife of twenty-five years. “What would be the need to write a book about my supposed ‘sex life’ with ANYBODY, EVER, in life?,” questioned the R&B singer in a screenshot of a text message that he shared to Instagram Thursday. “If you are looking for that kind of entertainment, read the book called ‘Holy Bible’ while you’re at it.”Elsewhere, on Twitter, Alsina rebuked an internet instigator who inquired about his alleged forthcoming book. “No!,” he wrote in response to the busybody.

An old clip of Will Smith begging his wife Jada to stop putting their marriage drama on blast in public has resurfaced in the wake of the Oscars slap drama.The clip, which is less than a minute long, is from an Instagram Live from 2019 where Jada ambushes her husband to answer questions about their troubled relationship.Jada makes Will visibly uncomfortable in the video, which has been making the rounds on Reddit, as she asks him about 'redefining' their marriage in an effort to drum up viewers for an episode of Red Table Talk. Embarrassing:An old clip of Will Smith begging his wife Jada to stop putting their marriage drama on blast in public has resurfaced in the wake of the Oscars slap drama 'You know Esther Perel is coming to the table, she's gonna be at the Red Table,' Jada says from behind the camera.

Ricky Gervais is hitting back at claims Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Apolecia is a “disability” following the controversial Oscars joke that shook Hollywood last weekend.The Office funnyman has defended Chris Rock’s Oscars joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, calling the comedian’s GI Jane quip “tame”.Many have slammed comedian Rock for the gag, but former awards show host Ricky has jumped to his defence branding it the “tamest joke I would’ve ever told.”Speaking to his followers on Instagram Live, the 60-year-old said: “You don’t hit someone over a joke, however bad it is – and it wasn’t bad. That was like the tamest joke I would’ve ever told.”“I’m going a bit thin – I’m disabled,” he added, pointing at his head.

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – OCTOBER 18: Actor Will Smith poses backstage at The Hollywood Awards Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel October 18, 2004 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Will Smith