Chris Rock Rejects Offer To Host 2023 Oscars Award

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Christopher Julius Rock, an American stand-up comedian better known as Chris Rock has rejected the offer to host the 2023 Oscars Award.

Chris Rock rejected the offer after he was slapped by Will Smith during the 2022 edition of the Oscars Award.

He revealed this during his show at Arizona Financial Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, last Sunday, Aug. 28, as per The Arizona Republic yesterday, Aug. 29.

He told the crowd during the show that coming back to the Oscars would be like returning to a crime scene, referencing the murder trial of former football player O.J.

Simpson, whose ex-wife’s killing began with her leaving a pair of eyeglasses at a restaurant.

Rock 57-year-old compared the possibility of returning to the Oscars to asking the late Nicole Brown Simpson “to go back to the restaurant.”

Meanwhile, the sold-out crowd during Rock’s performance seemed to be eager to hear about the comedian’s thoughts on the slap during the March Oscars ceremony. As Rock talked about how a person could get famous for being a victim, someone from the audience shouted, asking him to “talk about it.”

Rock admitted that the hit from Smith hurt, then referenced the 2001 drama film “Ali” where Smith played the boxer Muhammad Ali.

“He’s bigger than me,” Rock was quoted as saying. “The state of Nevada would not sanction a fight between me and Will Smith.”

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is yet to confirm if it indeed asked Rock to host the 2023 ceremony.

Aside from this, Rock also told attendees of the show that he was offered to do a commercial for the Super Bowl, but that he refused as well. He did not state what company asked him to be in the said commercial.

Smith has since apologized to the comedian and the Academy about the incident, though he is now banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years.

The 95th Oscars ceremony will air live in March 2023 from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood with nominations announced in January next year.

Oyinlola Awonuga
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Oyinlola Awonuga is a trained journalist with skill-set and experience in content curation, content creation, and management across various digital channels . Awonuga is passionate about Entertainment, Style, Fashion and Sports as niche specialties, and she is involved in consistent engagements on various social media platforms, with steady followers online. Her works have also received appreciable recognition from Media Career Development Network, and at her spare time, she monitors developments and reports on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. She loves reading, tracking updates on Entertainment, Style and Sports, and staying abreast of global digital developments.

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