Jada Pinkett Smith will not be bringing “The Slap” to the Red Table anytime soon
It’s a season of healing on Red Table Talk, and that means no talking about the thing everybody’s talking about
Since Oscar night 2022, which by our calculations occurred both 105 years ago and five minutes ago, many wondered whether or not Jada Pinkett Smith would be bringing Will to the Table, the Red Table, that is. In recent years, Pinkett Smith’s wildly popular Facebook Watch talk show, Red Table Talk, has become a space for airing Smith family grievances in front of her dedicated audience. However, one of the issues the host is sidestepping is her husband’s infamous open-handed response to comedian Chris Rock’s joke about Pinkett Smith’s alopecia.
The winner of the 2022 Oscar for Best Actor, Smith has since offered a public apology and his resignation from the Academy, which shortly thereafter, banned him for 10 years. But Red Table Talk’s fifth season premiere episode today didn’t get into all that. In fact, an opening title card warned viewers that there would be no Slap talk on this show because “the Smith family has been focused on deep healing.”