Steve Harvey Disses Will Smith’s Slap Of Chris Rock Onstage At The Oscars As ‘A Hollywood Move’

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Grammy Awards take place.The awards are presented by the recording academy in America, and they exist to recognise and congratulate outstanding achievements within the realm of the music industry.Kicking off for the first time in 1959 – Grammy Awards have been awarded to hundreds of musicians for decades upon decades.Tonight (April 3), the 64th Annual Grammy Awards will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas – where Olivia Rodrigo is in the running for Best Album with SOUR, and Ed Sheeran is up for Best Song with Bad Habits.And with any awards ceremony, as we all know from the past week at the Oscars when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock live on stage, controversial moments are a given.To celebrate the return of one of the most glamorous nights in music, we've decided to take a look back at the most controversial moments to have ever happened.From Bob Dylan getting 'soy bombed' to Will Smith boycotting the Grammys, and Lady Gaga arriving in an egg – a lot tends to happen at these events.Back in February 2011 Lady Gaga left fans completely taken aback when she arrived at the Grammys inside an egg... yes, really.At the time Gaga was 24 and was carried into the event and down the iconic red carpet in an egg shaped vessel at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in LA.She then 'hatched' when she was carried onto the stage and performed her then-new track Born This Way.

Camila Cabello took to Instagram on Sunday to promote her third studio album Familia.The singer-songwriter, 25, shared a snap alongside Willow Smith, who is featured on the album. The Liar singer donned a long black blazer and tiny matching spandex.She covered her legs in fishnet stockings, and a large silver necklace dangled down her bare chest.

media outlets have reported. The moves would be the latest blow to Smith following the altercation on stage at at the 94th Academy Awards show which followed Rock making a joke mocking Smith’s wife, actor Jada Pinkett Smith, and her medical condition alopecia, which causes hair loss. Streaming giant Netflix has slowed development on its upcoming action-thriller Fast and Loose, which Smith was set to star in, Variety reported.

competing for the various Best Actor prizes. However, the two have remained friendly, with Smith even opening up about the sincere message Washington gave him at the SAG Awards. Given their closeness, it’s no surprise that the King Richard star revealed during his Oscars speech that Washington spoke to him after he slapped Chris Rock.

“Saturday Night Live” returned over the weekend with a whole lot of material, thanks to Will Smith’s actions at this year’s Oscars.

He said: "We will continue to move forward with our disciplinary proceedings against Mr.Smith for violations of the Academy's Standards of Conduct, in advance of our next scheduled board meeting on April 18."The scandal arose when Chris Rock made a joke at the 2022 Oscars about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head.The actress, 50, has previously made clear that she suffers from alopecia, which causes hair loss.Will stormed the stage and struck Chris as a result of the joke.He has since made a public and lengthy apology on Instagram on Monday.The actor wrote: "I would like to publicly apologise to you Chris."I was out of line and I was wrong.

Saturday Night Live came back from its hiatus with a bang (and a slap)!

hot takes and opinions on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars last Sunday show no sign of stopping, Jeremy Clarkson has used the scene to take a trip down memory lane into his past feud with Piers Morgan.Writing in his latest Sunday Times column, the former Top Gear star argued that if you ‘boiled the incident down to its nub, a man abused another man’s wife and got a slap’.The actor had faced criticism for storming the stage and hitting the comedian after he compared Will’s wife Jada to GI Jane, apparently not knowing that her shaved hairstyle was due to the medical condition alopecia, which causes hair loss.Reasoning that you would see ‘much the same sort of thing in any pub and any club in any town on any night in the entire world’, he then revealed that ‘awards ceremonies seem to make it much more likely’, before adding: ‘Trust me. I know.’The 61-year-old then harked back to a media awards event 18 years ago, where he recalled hitting old rival Piers Morgan for a very similar reason.‘At the 2004 British Press Awards I ran into Piers Morgan, who said something unkind about my wife,’ he wrote.

returned over the weekend with a whole lot of material, thanks to incident that occurred at the Oscars when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.Many expected the slap heard 'round the world to be the primary focus of the night's cold open — although the show instead opted to for politically-focused sketch that only touched on the slap, via James Austin Johnson portraying former President Donald Trump.However, first-time host Jerrod Carmichael made sure to address the elephant in the room in his hilarious debut monologue. Additionally, Michael Che and Colin Jost didn't hold back while mocking the controversy during Weekend Update. And then there was the sketch that took fans back to the night in question with an up close and personal look at what it was like for the people around Smith during the altercation.Here's a roundup of how this week's dealt with the largest pop culture news story in recent memory.Carmichael plays an Oscars seat filler who is overjoyed to be sitting next to his Hollywood hero, Will Smith.

Good Morning Britain presenter Ranvir Singh has opened up on her personal experience of having alopecia, as she expressed her support for actress Jada Pinkett Smith. Pinkett Smith first revealed that she had the condition, which is an autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss, in 2018, when she said that beginning to lose her hair was "a really scary experience" and explained: "That's why I cut my hair and continue to cut it". Her condition was thrown into the spotlight at last weekend's Academy Awards ceremony, when her husband Will Smith and comedian Chris Rock got into an altercation live on stage after Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith's hair and compared her to fictional character GI Jane, who has been depicted with a shaved head.

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Nearly one week after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, Saturday Night Live got in on the conversation.

returned over the weekend with a whole lot of material, thanks to Will Smith's actions at this year's Oscars.Many expected the slap heard 'round the world to be the primary focus of the night's cold open — although the show instead opted to for politically-focused sketch that only touched on the slap, via James Austin Johnson's Donald Trump.However, first-time host Jerrod Carmichael made sure to address the elephant in the room in his hilarious debut monologue. Additionally, Michael Che and Colin Jost didn't hold back while mocking the controversy during Weekend Update. And then there was the sketch that took fans back to the night in question with an up close and personal look at what it was like for the people around Smith during the altercation.Here's a roundup of how this week's dealt with the largest pop culture news story in recent memory.Carmichael plays an Oscars seat filler who is overjoyed to be sitting next to his Hollywood hero, Will Smith.

The fallout for Will Smith continues. Following the dramatic slapping incident with Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, the 53-year-old actor’s upcoming film projects have been put on hold. Will’s Netflix film Fast and Loose was “quietly moved to the back burner” by the streaming giant, per a report from The Hollywood Reporter published on April 2. Bad Boys For Life (a.k.a. Bad Boys 4) will also be “paused” by Sony, despite Smith already receiving 40 pages of a script. HollywoodLife has reached out to both Sony and Netflix for comment on the respective films.

Oscars 2022 incident that saw actor Will Smith slap his brother.Tony reportedly referenced the incident on two occasions during his latest comedy show.He told the audience: "If you think you gonna walk up on this stage, this ain't the motherf***ing Oscars."And if you walk your a** you here, you ain't nominated for s**t but these mothef***ing hands!“Oh, we are going to pop the rest of the year. Every time you see me do a show, pop!"Tony later added: "I didn't want to start the show like that!"You gonna hit my motherf***ing brother because your b***h gave you a side-eye?"The moment in question took place last Sunday after Chris made a joke about Will’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, sporting a buzzcut.The actress has a condition called alopecia which causes hair loss.Moments after the jibe, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air actor was seen storming the stage and hitting Chris across the face.Will has since offered Chris a public apology as he stressed that he “deeply regrets” his behaviour.In a statement shared with his 63 million Instagram followers, Will explained why the joke was “too much for [him] to bear”.He wrote: “Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive.“My behaviour at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. “Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally.“I would like to publicly apologise to you, Chris.

Jerrod Carmichael made his hosting debut on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend and used his monologue to address the elephant in the room — the Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscars slap, and the endless social dialog that has erupted from it.

Saturday Night Live took on the Will Smith Oscars slap in a number of sketches across the show.Before winning the Best Actor award for his role in King Richard, Smith took to the stage to slap Chris Rock over a joke the latter made about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. In 2018, Pinkett Smith revealed she has alopecia.Host Jerrod Carmichael dissected the incident in his cold open on Saturday Night Live without directly mentioning Smith, Rock or the word “slap”.“I’m not going to talk about it,” Carmichael said. “I want to be clear up top.

Will Smith has resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, days after he released an apology for slapping Chris Rock during the Oscars. Smith announced his resignation Friday, saying he had "betrayed the trust of the academy" in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. "I have directly responded to the academy’s disciplinary hearing notice, and I will fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct.

Oscars as he won the award for Best Actor at the star-studded event. But earlier that night, the King Richard actor took to the stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.Jada had shared last year how she had shaved her hair following a battle with alopecia.Following his remark, Will took to the stage and slapped Chris before telling him to not speak his wife’s name.He could be heard shouting from his seat: “Keep my wife’s name out your f***ing mouth.”Denzel, 67, was one of the first people to console Will in the immediate aftermath.Will, who faces disciplinary action from the Academy, announced his resignation from the awards body on Friday (1 April).Denzel has since spoken publicly about the events which took place at the awards ceremony for the first time at a Leadership Summit in Washington DC.During the actor's tearful speech for last Sunday, Will told the audience that Denzel issued him a word of caution, saying: “In your highest moments, be careful; that’s when the devil comes for you.”According to reports, Denzel has since confirmed the comments he made to his pal.“There’s a saying when the devil ignores you, then you know you’re doing something wrong," he explained."The devil goes, ‘Oh, no, leave him alone, he’s my favourite.’"He added: “Conversely, when the devil comes at you, maybe it’s because he’s trying to do something right.

slapped comedian Chris Rock in face at the Oscars over a joke about his wife.In a sketch taking place at the Oscars, host Jerrod Carmichael plays a seat filler who gets opportunity to meet one of his heroes, Will Smith, played by Chris Redd. The two strike up an innocuous, friendly conversation and the filler asks Smith for a selfie when suddenly the audio of Chris Rock’s “G.I.