Will Smiff Bitch-Slaps Chris Rock Onstage At Oscars Over Jada Pinkett Smith Joke

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Will Smith Slaps Chris Rock Onstage At Oscars Over Jada Pinkett Smith Joke

Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head, which did not appear to go over well with her husband Will Smith.

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Will Smith Slaps Chris Rock Onstage At Oscars Over Jada Pinkett Smith Joke​

March 28, 2022 at 10:17 am



PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, which did not appear to go over well with her husband Will Smith.
While presenting the award for best documentary, Rock joked, “Jada I love you, ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it.”
The camera cut to Pinkett Smith, who rolled her eyes as she sat next to Smith.
“That was a nice one,” Rock said, appearing to respond to the joke not going over well.
Pinkett Smith has been open about her struggle with alopecia, an autoimmune disorder that leads to hair loss.


Rock then said, “Oh uh,” and laughed as Smith walked toward him on stage and appeared to strike Rock in the face.
According to CNN reporter Stephanie Elam, who is in the audience, she could hear Rock getting hit. Smith said twice during the incident, according to Elam, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth!”
Rock responded: “Oh, wow.”
For viewers at home, censors muted the verbal part of the exchange between Rock and Smith.
The theater went silent and Rock said, “That was the greatest night in the history of television.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs took to the stage later and told Smith and Rock that they would settle things “like family” later.

 

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Chris Rock and Will Smith’s beef started long before Oscars 2022 outburst

Rock made fun of Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith when he hosted the Oscars in 2016, six years before the “King Richard” star took a swing over a “G.I. Jane” joke.

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Chris Rock and Will Smith’s beef started long before Oscars 2022 outburst​

By Nicki Gostin


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Will Smith slaps Chris Rock over bald Jada Pinkett joke in Oscars meltdown



Bad blood between Chris Rock and Will Smith flowed long before the “King Richard” star took a swing at the 2022 Oscars.
In 2016, the stand-up comic hosted the Academy Awards, where both Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, were the butts of some pointed barbs.
Rock made fun of Pinkett Smith’s public avowal to boycott the show after another year of all-white acting nominees.
“Jada said she’s not coming. I was like, ‘Isn’t she on a TV show?’ Jada’s gonna boycott the Oscars? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. I wasn’t invited!” he quipped at the time.
Rock also poked fun at Smith, whose name had been bandied about as a possible Oscar nominee for his role in the film “Concussion.”
“Will was not nominated for ‘Concussion.’ I get it. You get mad. It’s not fair that Will was this good and didn’t get nominated. You’re right,” he said. “It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for ‘Wild Wild West.’”
Enlarge ImageChris Rock teased Will Smith when he hosted the Oscars in 2016.Getty
When the “Girls Trip” star was asked about the jokes, she seemed to take them in stride.
“It comes with the territory, sweetheart,” she told X17 one week after the 2016 Oscars. “Hey, look, it comes with the territory, but we gotta keep it moving. We gotta keep it moving. We gotta keep it moving. There’s a lot of stuff we gotta handle, a lot of stuff in our world right now. We gotta keep it moving.”
And when Smith was asked about it while filming in New York, he simply responded with a smile and peace sign.
Enlarge ImageRock and Smith appeared together on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”NBCUniversal via Getty Images
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But it seems that perhaps the couple did not move on from Rock’s ribald comments.
When the “Saturday Night Live” alum, 57, took to the stage at this year’s Oscars, he said, “Jada, I love you, ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it,” which caused 50-year-old Pinkett Smith — who suffers from alopecia and has shaved her head — to roll her eyes.
“G.I. Jane” is a 1997 movie starring a bald Demi Moore as a soldier.
Initially, Smith, 53, laughed, but then he marched on stage and took a swing at a shocked Rock. The audio was censored, but lip readers parsed that a furious Smith shouted, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth.”
Enlarge ImageSmith shocked the world when he took a swing at Rock for a joke about wife Jada Pinkett Smith.Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag
Rock tried to defend the joke, but the newly minted Oscar winner was not having it and kept screaming, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth.”
“That was the greatest night in the history of television,” Rock sagely noted.