{"id":51327,"date":"2022-08-20T20:09:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T20:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-smith-teases-return-to-social-media-after-oscars-slap-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-08-20T20:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T20:09:39","slug":"will-smith-teases-return-to-social-media-after-oscars-slap-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-smith-teases-return-to-social-media-after-oscars-slap-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith Teases Return to Social Media After Oscars Slap \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tWill Smith appears to have social media \u2014 and adorable animals \u2014 on the mind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tThe embattled actor took to Instagram on Friday, marking his first post since the Oscars ceremony on March 27 to not directly reference the infamous moment when he slapped Chris Rock onstage following a joke about the actor&#8217;s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tSmith&#8217;s new post featured a short video of a young gorilla earning the ire of a much larger gorilla by poking it multiple times in the backside.  A message added to the video read, \u201cMe trying to get back on social.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tAmong those commenting on the post was former National Geographic personality Cesar Millan, who wrote, \u201cAnimal kingdom is with you Will.\u201d  Additionally, Smith&#8217;s ex-wife, Sheree Zampino, responded with a heart emoji. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tThis comes exactly three weeks after Smith&#8217;s previous post, which was a video of him speaking directly to the camera to say, in part, that \u201cthere is no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave in that moment.\u201d  He also apologized to Rock and the comedian&#8217;s family following the incident that led Smith to resign from the Academy, and for which he received a 10-year ban from the organization&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tthe <em>Men in Black<\/em> star&#8217;s only other post since the night of the Oscars was a written apology to Rock on the day after the event.  At the ceremony, Smith accepted the best actor Oscar for <em>King Richard<\/em> shortly after his confrontation with Rock over a joke about Jada&#8217;s shaved head, and he apologized to the Academy but not Rock in the acceptance speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tPrior to the Oscars, Smith would frequently use social media to share lighthearted moments from his life and connect with fans. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith appears to have social media \u2014 and adorable animals \u2014 on the mind. The embattled actor took to Instagram on Friday, marking his first post since the Oscars ceremony on March 27 to not directly reference the infamous moment when he slapped Chris Rock onstage following a joke about the actor&#8217;s wife, Jada &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-smith-teases-return-to-social-media-after-oscars-slap-the-hollywood-reporter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Smith Teases Return to Social Media After Oscars Slap \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50946,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-smith-makes-bizarre-return-to-social-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":51327,"position":0},"title":"Will Smith Makes Bizarre Return to Social Media","date":"August 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Will Smith is testing the social media waters again after taking a hiatus following his controversial Oscars moment. 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