Oscars adds ‘crisis team’ to 2023 show after Will Smith-Chris Rock ‘slapgate’

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Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage while presenting the award for best documentary feature at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles..

Oscars adds crisis team to 2023 show after Will Smith-Chris Rock slapgate. x..

Ahead of the 95th Academy Awards, the organisers have a new crisis team in place..

The creation of the crisis team is a response to the 2022 Oscars, where Will Smith infamously walked on stage and slapped Chris Rock..

This will be the statement. And obviously, depending on the specifics of the crisis, and lets hope something doesnt happen and we never have to use these, but we already have frameworks in place that we can modify.. Smith slapped Rock at the 2022 Oscars while the latter was presenting the best documentary feature category..

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