Nick Cannon blames Red Table Talk for Will Smith slap
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nick Cannon, Will Smith, Oscars
Ella Scott
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Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nick Cannon, Will Smith, Oscars
Nick Cannon has admitted that he’s glad Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk show has come to an end after laying the blame for the Will Smith Oscars debacle at the series’ door.
Cannon, 42, is best known for being the outspoken host of The Masked Singer as well as the Herculean effort of being a father to 12 children under 12.
Never one to mince his words, Cannon recently shared his thoughts on Pinkett Smith’s, 51, Red Table Talk series being canceled by Meta earlier this week.
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The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company revealed that it was shutting down Facebook Watch originals and pulling the plug on Red Table Talk in a bid to cut costs at the company.
The five-season Facebook show launched back in 2018 and was hosted by Pinkett Smith, her daughter Willow Smith, and Willow’s grandmother Adrienne Banfield-Norris.
Following the show’s demise news, Pinkett Smith wrote to Instagram: “We are so grateful to have had such a beautiful partnership with Facebook Watch and we are sorry to see the entire team disband.
“We wish everyone well in their new journeys to come. We at Red Table are in talks of finding a new home and we’ll see you soon."
Following the show’s cancellation, Cannon revealed his thoughts via his own Amazon-hosted product, The Daily Cannon.
On Thursday's (27 April) episode, he stated that without Smith, appearing on the talk show back in 2020, he probably wouldn’t have slapped Chris Rock, on stage at the Oscars in 2022.
Cannon said: "If there was no Red Table Talk, then [Will Smith] wouldn’t have slapped the s*** out of Chris Rock."
The episode he was referring to saw Smith joining his wife to discuss her rumoured 'entanglement' with R&B singer August Alsina - who at the time of the alleged affair was just 22.
“They made all them memes about my brother Will on that damn table - they didn’t need to do that,” Cannon told his listeners.
“I just want to mind my own Black business. I don’t want to be up in everybody else’s kitchen. Keep that s*** to ya’ll selves.”
However, The Daily Cannon podcast co-host Courtney Bee Bledsoe reminded Cannon that 'Will agreed to come to the damn table'.
Furthermore, co-host and one of Cannon's baby mamas Abby De La Rosa, said that the viral Red Table Talk episode was 'an honest table'.
“It feels human, like they’re human. It feels relatable. They’re trash too, like the rest of us,” she added.
De La Rosa shares three children with Cannon - Beautiful Zeppelin Cannon, 5 months, and twin sons Zillion Heir Cannon and Zion Mixolydian Cannon, both 1.
You can listen to The Daily Cannon every weekday morning on Amazon’s live radio app, Amp.