BBC Breakfast presenter Sally Nugent didn’t hesitate to blast the Oscars 2022 for ‘lack of security’ during a discussion about Will Smith smacking Chris Rock in the face.
After Chris made a joke about Will’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith – who is battling alopecia – resembling G.I. Jane, Will rose from his seat, smacked him across the face and returned to sit down.
He then repeatedly yelled: “Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth.”
On Tuesday (March 29), hosts Sally and Jon Kay were busy interviewing British comedian Alan Davies to get his perspective on the incident as someone who is regularly on-stage.
And almost unsurprisingly, Alan turned out in support of Chris for the “unscripted” joke.
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He also slammed the Oscars’ security team for their lack of action at the event, explaining: “What I thought was fascinating, being someone who is onstage often, is that where were the security?
“I suppose he can just breeze through because he’s Will Smith, but you can imagine if someone is trying to get on stage at the Oscars, they’ll be taken down by some plainclothes person in a tuxedo carrying a sidearm in row two.”
He added: “You couldn’t get to Jeremy Kyle without being rugby tackled, so how on earth…
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“If someone did that in a comedy club, slapped the comedian, then sat back down and started swearing and yelling abuse at him – they’d be ejected. I was amazed that he was able to return to his seat and pick up his prize.”
And Sally definitely appeared to agree with Alan, as she said at the end of the segment: “He makes a really good point – where was security?
“If that had happened anywhere else – if you weren’t Will Smith – you’d be stopped.”
However, her co-host Jon was quick to correct her, as he chimed in: “But imagine if they’d stopped Will Smith, on his night at the Oscars. They wouldn’t have done that, would they?”
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Sally replied: “Well! I guess so…” but didn’t seem sure.
Alan also made the point that he didn’t think Chris’s joke was aimed at Jada’s hair loss, as he said: “I don’t think he was making a joke about her hair loss, that’s what I think.
“I think it’s interesting in your report that ‘Chris Rock made a joke about her alopecia’ … I think Chris Rock saw her in a fitted green dress, although from the waist down there’s obviously a big skirt, but fitted from the waist up.
“It’s a kind of military green up to the neck, to the wrists, with the hair the way it is at the moment with the shaven look… she’s got this striking jawline.
“She’s a very beautiful woman, and she resembled Demi Moore. And [Chris] saw that and thought of G.I. Jane, and he made the joke.
“He tried to keep it down as short as he could, to about eight words, referencing that.”
He added: “If anything I imagine he thought he was paying her a compliment.”
BBC Breakfast airs daily from 6am on BBC One.
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