Looked staged to me.
It looked like a stunt to increase ratings & viewership for celebrity awards programs. I think it is more of a stunt now that Chris Rock declines to press charges.
Whether a faked or a real incident it was in poor taste. The bald joke directed at Smith’s wife and then Smith’s assault & screaming profanities on tv. Smith went on to win an Oscar, too bad he ruined the entire experience for himself.
Can you imagine what kind of privilege these celebrities have where they can walk on a stage during a televised program and assault another human being and get away with it? No I didn’t watch the Oscars. Just read about this and went to watch the clip. Such utter degeneracy.
My thoughts exactly.......staged to give the thug an extra media boost.
Two things....
First, a slap? Really? But if you want to stage a fight and reduce the risk of someone actually getting hit, a slap is far less risky that a punch.
Two, the timing. If this was right before the last block of big elawards was given out, then I’m thinking the incident was staged to goose what I’m betting were miserable ratings.
Ad time was likely more expensive around the big awards.
If this went out on social media and folks tuned in right after, Hollyweird might have gotten a decent ratings spike after this.
And that would affect makegoods and cut down on bad publicity.