Oscars producer claims LAPD was 'prepared' to arrest Will Smith after Chris Rock slap

Actor Sean Penn spoke with MSNBC and Fox News to discuss what’s happening on the ground in Ukraine and to discuss support for the country. 

Just like the rest of us, Chris Rock is still reeling from when Will Smith slapped him at the Oscars. In fact, the 57-year-old comedian doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to accept the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air star’s apology. “He can’t imagine forgiving Will, being friends with him. It is just a very weird thing to fully envelope,” a source close to Chris EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife.

J. Kim Murphy Sean Penn spoke to cable viewers across the political spectrum on Tuesday night, appearing on both the right-leaning Fox News and left-leaning MSNBC within the span of two hours to discuss support for Ukraine amid the country’s invasion by Russian military forces.Penn began the evening with an in-person appearance on the N.Y.-based “Hannity,” engaging in a conversation with Fox News conservative commentator Sean Hannity. Hannity began the segment by recounting how the comparatively liberal Penn decided to come onto the program.“I made the first phone call to you,” Hannity began.

Jada Pinkett Smith’s former lover is shedding some light into their "entanglement." August Alsina, 29, shared a few clips to his Instagram on Monday sampling a new song titled, "Shake the World," which exposes details of his affair with Pinkett Smith, 50, in 2015. "Well, of course some s--- is bound to go down when you tangled up with the world’s favorite," Alsina sang in a video shared to his Instagram.  Jada Pinkett Smith's ex lover, August Alsina, sheds light into their affair in a new song titled, "Shake the World".

North East has taken social media by storm with a recent and topical submission for his school's annual Easter Egg competition. Will Nolan who lives in Fellgate decided to go for gold this year with a completely unique idea, in which he has recreated an iconic scene from the most recent Oscars ceremony. The 94th Academy Awards left people talking long after it's live screening, when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock for an off the cuff joke about his wife Jada's hair loss.

People he can rely on. Will Smith is facing backlash after slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, but he’s been building these friendships for years.

Chris Rock, 57, looked quite somber during his latest outing in New York City. The comedian was photographed walking outside with a serious look on his face and his hands in his pockets, just over a week after Will Smith, 53, shockingly slapped him while on stage at the 2022 Academy Awards. He wore a black jacket with cargo pants and colorful sneakers during the stroll and added sunglasses and a pair of headphones around his neck.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, two stars already attached at the hip in their longstanding marriage, have reportedly only grown closer in the week since Smith’s viral smacking of Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards. According to a new report, the pair is apparently not letting the incident or criticism get between them. "They stick together through thick and thin," a source told Us Weekly on Tuesday.

Donatella Versace is revealing some details from her most recent meet-up with her pal Britney Spears. “She’s on vacation now,” the designer told Variety during the recent Vanity Fair Oscar party. “She’s doing well. I find her in an amazing state of mind.”

August Alsina is rehashing a hot topic.

Jada Pinkett Smith wants to "move on" from Will Smith's Oscars smack. The 50-year-old actress - who suffers from hair-loss condition alopecia - was the butt of a joke made by comedian Chris Rock at the 94th Annual Academy Awards towards the end of last month, which resulted in husband Will,53, striking Chris across the face and is now reportedly ready to forget about the controversial moment. A source said: "Jada wants to just move on.

Chris Rock’s brother Kenny has criticised the Academy for its lack of action and lambasted Will Smith after he slapped his brother at the Oscars. Smith walked on stage and struck Rock, who was presenting the award for Best Documentary, after the comedian made a joke about his wife, actor Jada Pinkett Smith. On Friday (1 April), five days after the incident, Smith made the decision to step down from the Academy.

READ MORE: Will Smith biopic in chaos as streaming giants 'pull out' over Oscars attack on Chris Rock Ellie's friend told The Sun: "Ellie has barely left Nat’s side since the accident. She has been holding his hand and willing him to get better. "Her heart is totally ripped in two by all of this and she is still in a state of shock about how things have ended up.

Jason Momoa has addressed rumours that he is dating Kate Beckinsale after the pair were photographed together during an Oscars after-party. On 27 March, the Aquaman star, 42, and Beckinsale, 48, were seen together at Jay Z’s Oscars after-party, during which they were photographed standing close while the Underworld star wore Momoa’s jacket. At the time, the photographs sparked rumours that Momoa, who recently announced that he and Lisa Bonet would be ending their marriage after five years and more than a decade together, and Beckinsale were dating.

Chris Rock’s brother Kenny has criticised the Academy for its lack of action following Will Smith‘s actions at this year’s Oscars show.Last month, the actor struck the comedian on-stage during the Academy Awards ceremony following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Following numerous apologies over the incident, Smith resigned from the Academy and described his actions as “shocking, painful, and inexcusable”.“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,” Kenny, an actor and entrepreneur, told The Los Angeles Times in a story published yesterday (April 4).“Every time I’m watching the videos, it’s like a rendition that just keeps going over and over in my head.

The March 28 episode of “The View,” which featured co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Sara Haines breaking down the infamous Will Smith Oscar slap, was the talk show’s top telecast in all key target demographics in more than a year, ABC announced on Tuesday.Goldberg, who is on the board of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, but was not at the Oscars herself, stated that while she advocated for sanctions against the Best Actor winner, she thought Smith should keep his statuette. “We’re not gonna let the Academy take that award from him,” she said.“The View” averaged 2.727 million Total Viewers, 308,000 Women 25-54 and 225,000 Women 18-49, during the week of March 28, 2022, based on live + same day data from Nielsen Media Research.The talk show turned in across-the-board gains from the previous week: Total Viewers (+24% – 2.727 million vs. 2.203 million), Women 25-54 (+34% – 308,000 vs.

Amy Schumer continues to share her thoughts on the controversy caused during the 2022 Academy Awards, following the off-script joke that created the conflict between Chris Rock and Will Smith, the comedian is now revealing the joke she ‘wasn’t allowed’ to make at the ceremony.During her recent stand-up comedy act in Las Vegas, Schumer, who previously revealed she was “still triggered and traumatized” by the Oscars slap, told the audience some of the jokes labeled too controversial for the show, including a joke about Joe Rogan, James Franco, and one about the fatal shooting involving Alec Baldwin on the set of ‘Rust.’“Don’t Look Up’ is the name of a movie? More like don’t look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin’s shotgun,” Schumer said, “I wasn’t allowed to say any of that, but you can just come up and [slap] someone.”And while the comedian described the slap as “disturbing,” explaining that she was “still in shock and stunned and sad,” and “waiting for this sickening feeling to go away from what we all witnessed,” online users shared their thoughts on what was described as an “insensitive” and “tasteless” joke, following the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.“It’s not funny to joke about someone being killed by a prop gun,” one person wrote, while another one commented, “How do you think hearing this makes Halyna Hutchins’ grieving family feel?”

Striking while the iron’s hot. Less than two weeks after Will Smith’s Oscars scandal, August Alsina dropped a new song that alludes to his “entanglement” with the actor’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

Alec Baldwin is the latest star to comment on the Oscars slap moment.

Chris Rock‘s younger brother Kenny defended the comedian more after the “slap heard ’round the world” when Will Smith rushed the stage at the 2022 Academy Awards and slapped him after Chris jokingly compared Jada Pinkett-Smith to the movie G.I. Jane. Kenny reiterated that Chris didn’t know that Jada suffered from alopecia in an interview with Los Angeles Times published on Monday April 4.

Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefThere is a dizzying amount of damage control and chaos still unfolding from the wreckage of the now most infamous Oscar ceremony on record.The more time people have had to process Will Smith’s shocking assault on Chris Rock on March 27, the angrier many have become at Smith for hijacking Hollywood’s biggest night of the year. Not only did he ravage his own golden moment — winning best actor — but he robbed the Oscar hosts, other nominees and winners and the live and TV audiences of enjoying what should have been a purely celebratory evening.The latest twist in this surreal saga came April 1, when Smith announced he was resigning from the Motion Picture Academy, calling his actions “shocking, painful and inexcusable” and acknowledging the hurt he’s foisted on all involved.

conversation with TheWrap that the Academy did not have the equivalent of a shareholders meeting and should more regularly consider member proposals. In his statement in response on Tuesday, Shamberg continued to slam the declining relevance of the Oscars in the 21st century and the show’s declining ratings over the last decade (March’s 94th Academy Awards rebounded 69% from an all-time low in 2020).“Academy management needs to be held accountable to the members.

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Not worried. After Will Smith received major backlash for slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, Whoopi Goldberg compared the Academy Award winner’s future to Louis C.K. and Kanye West‘s recent Grammy wins.

Nothing to it! Jason Momoa is clarifying his relationship status after he was spotted offering his jacket to Kate Beckinsale outside of the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty.

Whoopi Goldberg is confident that Will Smith's career "will be fine" after the actor slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars. During The View on Monday, the Sister Act star and her co-hosts discussed a report suggesting that development on the Oscar winner's upcoming movies, including Netflix's Fast and Loose, has been paused following the controversy on 27 March. Goldberg, who is a member of the Academy's Board of Governors and a former Oscar host, said that she believes his career will make a comeback.

The bidding war had reportedly reached £10 million before both platforms pulled out. READ MORE: BBC The Split: What happened at the end of series two? A source told The Sun: "Netflix and Apple+ have quietly removed their bids for a Will Smith biopic and will instead relocate the funds and develop original ideas from new black actors.

August Alsina, 29, appears to address his infamous “entanglement” with Jada Pinkett Smith, 50, in his new song, “Shake the World.” The rapper released the 2 minute-long track on Monday, April 4, and the lyrics seemingly reference the past romance with Will Smith‘s wife that became hot topic news in 2020. “Well, of course some s**t is bound to go down when you tangled up with the world’s favorite,” August sings, which you can hear for yourself below.

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This year’s Oscars ceremony turned into a media circus after Will Smith slapped guest presenter Chris Rock for making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith‘s hair, alluding to the actress making a sequel to the Ridley Scott film “G.I. Jane.” Since then, Smith has made multiple apologies and even resigned his membership in The Academy.

Can’t forgive and forget? As the fallout of Will Smith‘s Oscars slap continues, Chris Rock‘s brother Kenny Rock wants more consequences.

More members of Chris Rock’s family are weighing in on the Will Smith Oscars slap.

Zack Sharf Kenny Rock, Chris Rock’s brother, railed against Will Smith and the Academy in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times. Kenny said his brother was not aware of Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia prior to making a joke at the Oscars about her bald head while presenting the documentary feature category. The joke led Will Smith to come up on stage and slap Rock.“The joke was funny,” Kenny Rock said.

radio station Heart about the tattoo for a segment on the weirdest thing he has been asked to do at work.Having been a tattoo artist for three years and specializing in hyper-realistic portraits, Arton said he was happy to oblige.Arton isn’t alone with the seemingly odd request: A tattoo artist in New Jersey also received a request for the unique tattoo, shocking many online.Oscar Aguilar Jr. shared a video on his Instagram of the finished product, which has been reposted to TikTok with nearly 15,000 views as of Tuesday.Commenters were quick to call the tattoo “unnecessary,” “childish” and “so dumb.” “Did that not happen like two days ago?” an Instagram commenter added.A post shared by ⚜️Oscar Aguilar Jr⚜️ (@oaguilarcrafted)The moment has been etched into infamy worldwide, too.