Kelley Carter, senior entertainment reporter, and Stacey Schecter, supervising attorney, discuss the Oscars fallout as Will Smith apologizes, saying his behavior was unacceptable and inexcusable.
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1) What was Rock thinking joking about a man's wife disease? TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.
2) Rock should really apologise to Will's wife publicly for his callousness.
3) Yes Smith should NOT have slapped Rock but he was provoked most unfairly & unnecessarily & rose to defend his wife.
4) Apology of both men to each other is more than enough to settle this matter.
Hollywood Woke culture at it's best ! Actors and the Oscars Academy support this denigrating behavior !
omg will the new Mel Gibson
The Academy never dealt with it, so they did nothing? My daughter that’s 14 years old would know to get someone that’s violent out of the room.🤦🏻
Jada ruined Will thats all…
that clown direspect will wife and he is the victim.will smith reaction was normal they should throw that clown out for disrespecting the author's comedian or not.
Will should have been removed and charged. It's crazy how someone can slap someone, live, onstage and the audience applauds his speech, acceptance of his reward. Will preached about love and all that jazz but his actions was not love…..There's some type of understanding of his actions but that still doesn't excuse his behavior.
The aftermath of this incident is the fun part.
Too little too late.
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS, including aerospace/defense contractors and Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson must be held to address a vital issue that transcends politics and we will never properly advance until it happens: The 75+yr ongoing-constitutionally illegal,
EXTRATERRESTRIAL cover-up. How can we truly believe anything our elected officials say?
Everyone falling for this staged add for a medication manufacturer. Wow how gullible is everyone.
There are MUCH larger things going on now to be concerned about than a confrontation between two celebrities that have more money and fame than either know what to do with. If people would put as much energy and passion into the actual issues affecting the world, as they do into arguing about whether a multi-millionaire should lose his career over slapping another multi-millionaire, we could truly bring about positive change for the planet. We shouldn't be basing our actions, and how we live our lives, on the way rich people live either. Many of them wouldn't even know how to survive without their mansions, servants, luxury cars and restaurants. I think we all need to reevaluate what is really important.
damn will smith just slaps chris rock back to africa
Will Smith just acted like a damn fool in front of his wife, the Academy and an international audience. It might take over 20 years to build a career and reputation, but only 2 minutes to ruin it.
Just cause you have money and fame there is no excuses for any of it
damn 10 minute story sheesh, most people who touch kids dont get stories this big lmao
the media is really milking this one!
Theses people are 95% more focused and worried about Will Smith, who has so arrogantly gotten away with assault 🙄
More worried than they are about poor Chris Rock who must be still quite shocked and traumatised 😣
Smith yells like a boss but hits like a bit*#
I wanna hear lupita nyongo's opinion on this, she was right next to them and looked scared and shocked!
Okay can somebody explain to me what that Chris Rock said anything about bald head people and alopecia. I'm bald myself
WHOOOOOO CAAARRREEESSSSS, was a fake slap anyways… was so obvious it being fake… just a stunt for publicity
It should not be a crime to defend what is yours that's his wife granted it got out of hand but they both should be in trouble not just the victim it could have been handled differently no law suit should be in play here this is just a wast of time and resources if this keep going on without a resolve everyone got played money folks
Any violence should be condemed period no matter who did it or how famous they are !
# 1 "Fallout" implies consequences which the rich and famous don't suffer. #2 "Fallout" implies viewers for the media. Which they live for. #3 WTF is a "Senior entertainment reporter?" Are there junior entertainment reporters? #4 "Supervising Lawyer" to who? #5 All your heroes are whores. #6 Does violence for words really surprise anyone anymore? #6 It's clearly the Democrats fault. Or the Republicans, or the small wooden gnomes that live in my stomach. In short, there needs to a wall built between the audience and the stage.
Will Smith has not "apologized" to Chris Rock. He apologized to nearly everyone BUT Chris Rock during his speech when he could have at least begun to make himself accountable by acknowledging to the faces of the people who witnessed his assault on Mr. Rock how ashamed he was and how deeply sorry to Mr. Rock he was for his appalling, violent, and offensive behaviour. All Smith has done is hide behind his computer screen and type out some trite and self-serving words the following day, no doubt after his publicist got ahold of him and told him how his actions were playing out in the media. Coward.
Will said the joke about his wife was more than he could handle, so why was he laughing at it then?
At TV's lowest moment, Chris Rock jokes "the greatest night in television". He's positive to the core.
this just fortifies my perception that the world has gone to *hit.. huge a listers perpetrating violence on another human on live tv in front of the world!.. and it came so naturally to him! hollywood is an ass and these 'celebs' are ass droppings
I will pray for the Smith family. And I think that is exactly what they need is prayer.
Rock had no right to say what he did, a person's health should not be made fun of.
Will Smith SHOULD BE IN JAIL. HE IS VERY LOW AND NOBODY LIKES HIM ANYMORE.
Expulsion.
huh… i think that show big mouth pulled a simpsons with that line. that line about keeping the wife's name out is word for word in the ski episode near the end of the series…
Jada a fcken hoe.
Fcken pathetic.
Just shows a lot of celebrities are Aholes
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Why are these stupid idiots talking all about bitch boy will smith they're not even mentioning Chris Rock and how this is gonna affect him!!!!
So what the point, smith is do wrong things, or chris?
Maybe jada wiants an "entanglement" with Chris Rock now. #boycotttheredtablediscussions
That's commendable that Rock didn't want to remove Will but why is that his choice? Like come on! Do they have no policy in place for assault and an automatic removal from the Oscar's?? Carried off if you have to! Again spineless from the producers of the Oscar's.
Will Smith is a piece of garbage, he sits there and laughs when Chris told the joke and only did something about it when Jada gave Will the look of "you going to do anything about what he just said" nice to see that she be the man in the family, cuz Will and Jaden sure ain't, and Willow….please don't get me started on that illiterate sad piece of work, ego trippin is right, whole fam needs to chill and Jada…it's just alopecia, it's not like you're dying, so what if you loose your hair, ya lost your looks long ago, can't put lipstick on a pig and call it gorgeous, bitch please.
This event happened cuz his traumas of his life as a child? Maaannnn if you don't stop this bullish. This is Jadas fault! If she would just get over Tupac and worship Will for being the real man in her life for putting up with bullish. Will would of never got his emotions into an intangulment. Best thing for him is to Divorce her and live his life
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