Los Angeles: Comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who is ready to host the Oscars this yr, has joked he’ll run away if anybody tries to slap him on stage. The comic is presenting the ninety fifth Academy Awards on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles nearly a yr after 2022 host Chris Rock was belted by Will Smith after making a joke in regards to the actor’s spouse Jada Pinkett Smith, stories ‘Female First UK’.
Now, Kimmel is adamant he will not let himself get slapped in the identical means – particularly if he is approached by somebody larger than him. In an interview with ‘The Hollywood Reporter’, he joked: “If somebody comes up on the stage and slaps me? Well, I size them up, and, if I’m bigger than they are, I beat the s*** out of them on television. And if it’s the Rock, I run.”
Jimmy went on to speak about his personal earlier Oscars controversy on the 2017 ceremony when ‘La La Land’ was by chance introduced because the Best Picture winner by presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty just for the award to then be given to the rightful winner ‘Moonlight’ as a substitute.
‘Female First UK’ additional states that the comic joked that the second is now not essentially the most controversial in Oscars historical past because of Will Smith.
He mentioned, “Yeah, we got knocked down the list. It’s disappointing in a lot of ways. If you’re gonna be part of a f***-up, it might as well be the biggest f***-up ever. Being part of the second-biggest f***up doesn’t carry as much cachet”.
After the monumental mix-up was revealed, Jimmy tried to lighten the awkward second onstage by yelling to Beatty: “Warren! What did you do?”
He then went on so as to add, “Well I don’t know what happened. I blame myself for this. Let’s remember it’s just an awards show, I mean … I knew I would screw this show up, I really did”.
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