Richard Madeley SLAMS Chris Rock as ‘the most unpleasant celebrity I’ve had the misfortune to meet’
Richard Madeley SLAMS Chris Rock as ‘the most unpleasant celebrity I’ve had the misfortune to meet’ as he and Susanna Reid have fiery debate over Will Smith hitting him at Oscars
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Richard Madeley has slammed Chris Rock as ‘the most unplesant celebrity I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet’ as he discussed Will Smith hitting him at the Oscars.
The TV presenter, 65, appeared on Monday’s Good Morning Britain alongside Susanna Reid where the pair discussed Smith hitting the comedian after he compared his wife Jada Pinkett Smith to GI Jane during the ceremony.
Susanna criticised Smith for his behaviour, saying she didn’t think it was ok to ‘get up on stage and hit somebody’.
Candid: Richard Madeley has slammed Chris Rock as ‘the most unplesant celebrity I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet’ as he discussed Will Smith hitting him at the Oscars
Richard agreed that the moment was ‘clearly not OK’ but he then wondered about Smith’s motives.
Susanna said: ‘Obviously you can see Will was furious about was said – and I’m not defending the joke – but really? It’s 2022 and it’s OK to get up on stage and hit somebody.”
Richard said: “It’s clearly not OK but it’s happened and once it’s happened you have to analyse the motives behind it.
‘What I’m trying to suggest is, you could say it’s wrong and he could be charged, was it something you would say that was understanable under the heat of the moment?’
Shocking: The TV presenter, 65, appeared on Monday’s Good Morning Britain alongside Susanna Reid where the pair discussed Smith hitting the comedian after he compared his wife Jada Pinkett Smith to GI Jane during the ceremony
Susanna replied: ‘I understand that he did it. I don’t think it’s OK that he did it. I love Will Smith. He’s a lovely guy. Whenever I’ve interviewed him, he’s been charming and lovely.’
Richard then said he had crossed paths with Chris Rock in the past and said he was the most unpleasant celebrity he had ever interviewed.
The broadcaster said he and wife Judy Finnegan interviewed the comedian when he was promoting the animated film Madasgascar and they had to edit out several parts of the segment because of Rock’s behaviour.
Richard said: ‘I was asked by GQ magazine some years ago who was the most unpleasant person I’d ever interviewed in my entire career and that goes back to 1972 when I was in local newspapers. I said without hesitation, Chris Rock.
‘Judy and I interviewed him for our Channel 4 programme with Ben Stiller. They did voices in the film Madagascar. It was a pre-recorded interview but had it been live we would have abandoned it.
Honest: Richard said he had crossed paths with Chris Rock in the past and said he was the most unpleasant celebrity he had ever interviewed
‘He was the most unpleasant, rude, aggressive, unlikeable human being I’ve ever interviewed on camera, without question.
He added: ‘We edited around all the difficult bits and the interview that went out looked alright but his behaviour was awful. In my book, he’s the most unpleasant celebrity I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet. But I wouldn’t have punched him.’
Smith later tearfully apologized as he won Best Actor for his work as father of Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard just minutes after the awkward altercation in which he struck the 57-year-old comedian with an open hand
He beat out Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos, Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog, Andrew Garfield – tick, tick… BOOM!, and Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth.
‘Love makes you do crazy things’, the rapper and actor admitted as he accepted his Best Actor Oscar statuette.
Richard said: ‘He was the most unpleasant, rude, aggressive, unlikeable human being I’ve ever interviewed on camera, without question’
He added that being a Hollywood star means you should be able to ‘have people disrespecting you and that ‘you just gotta smile and pretend it’s ok,’ he said.
But he added that he admired Richard Williams who ‘was a fierce defender of his family.’
‘I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people,’ he explained.
Smith went on to issue a tearful partial apology for his emotional outburst, but did not apologize to Rock. ‘I want to apologize to the Academy, I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees. This is a beautiful moment,’ he said.
‘Art imitates life. I look like the crazy father,’ said Smith.
Speech: Smith went on to issue a tearful partial apology for his emotional outburst, but did not apologize to Rock
Journalists covering the awards ceremony from the press area were instructed not to ask any attendees about Smith slapping Rock, according to BBC correspondent David Sillito.
Late Sunday night, the LAPD issued a statement saying that Rock had not filed a police report against Smith, but that if he chooses to do so, police will investigate.
‘LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program,’ the statement said. ‘The incident involved one individual slapping another.’
It was not immediately clear whether the Academy would penalize Smith in any way for his outburst.
