Gallery: ‘Do you have any other questions, that are smart?’: Celebrities who confronted their interviewers (BANG Showbiz)The 'Beast' producer declined to say if he'd spoken to either star since the incident, but insisted he wasn't taking sides.
He said: "I would just say I love both of those brothers and I’m pulling for them. " Despite the attention the row received at the time, Packer is "very prideful" of what he and his team achieved with their delivery of this year's Oscars, which was hosted by Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall.
He said: "People always talk about that [slap], but I hope that over time people will realise it was an energetic, diverse, history-making Oscars ceremony.
A lot of energy went into it. I’m very prideful of it. " When he apologised last month, Smith - who resigned from the Academy in the wake of the row and was subsequently banned from the Oscars and all the organisation's events for 10 years - blamed being "fogged out" and "fuzzy" for not saying sorry to the 'Top 5' star at the time.
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