Kate Hawkesby: Shame on the Oscars for not kicking Will Smith out of the show

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Mar 28, 2022 · 3m

Well Denzel Washington was right when he said to Will Smith last night that - 'at your highest moment, the devil comes for you'.

But the devil didn't just come for Will Smith, the whole Academy and Hollywood glitterati who witnessed it are also at fault here, I reckon.

They just sat there and acted like nothing happened, they carried on clapping, laughing.. why did they condone it? Why did absolutely no one working at the ceremony get on stage to check if Chris Rock was OK? Police were there, why did they do nothing? Security was there - nothing.

The hypocrisy here just blows my mind. Compare…