A slap at the Oscars

Will Smith’s therapist has a name, “Uncle Fluffy”, for the movie star’s public persona – the nice guy who signs every autograph and shakes every hand, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph. At the Oscars ceremony on Sunday night, “Uncle Fluffy abruptly left the building”. The trouble began when a presenter, comedian Chris Rock, addressed an unscripted comment to Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, whose head is shaved. “Jada, can’t wait for G.I. Jane 2,” he joked, referencing Demi Moore’s severe buzzcut in the film G.I. Jane. It was “tactless”, given that Pinkett Smith shaved her head after developing alopecia. Smith then “strode onto the stage and slapped Rock in the face”, an act so shocking many thought it was a set-up, only to realise the actor was “deadly…

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