Good Morning Britain viewers think they've spotted 'friction' between the show's hosts this morning as they brought all the latest on the fallout from the Oscars.
It was a notable evening overnight as some of the world's biggest film stars attend the glittering Oscars ceremony which set new records for diversity and representation, besides giving long-awaited recognition for two big-screen veterans.
However, the 94th Academy Awards ceremony was thrown into chaos after Will Smith stormed the stage and appeared to hit Chris Rock in the face after the comedian made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, just minutes before Smith was named best actor at the ceremony.
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The incident overshadowed a night which saw Coda, which features a predominantly deaf cast, named best picture, while Troy Kotsur made history as the first deaf male actor to win a gong and Sir Kenneth Branagh won the best original screenplay prize for his semi-autobiographical film Belfast.
The incident between Smith and Rock is, as expected, hitting the headlines and was a dominant topic of conversation on Monday morning's GMB with Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid.
Richard, 65, was back at the helm of the ITV news programme alongside Susanna, 51, after being replaced by Martin Lewis and Adil Ray on last week's programme.
The pair spent much of the programme discussing Smith's reaction after, referring to Pinkett Smith’s buzzcut, Rock said: "Jada, can’t wait for GI Jane 2”, prompting the actress to roll her eyes before moments later Smith walked up on stage and appeared to hit Rock before returning to his seat and shouting twice: "Keep my wife’s name out of your f****** mouth."
The altercation left Rock shocked and flustered as he tried to resume presenting the best documentary feature category but the incident then cast a cloud over Smith’s acceptance speech for his first-ever Oscar, after he was named best actor for his portrayal of Richard Williams, the father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, in King Richard.
Smith apologised to both the Academy and his fellow nominees, but not to Rock, as he collected his gong, joking that he "looks like the crazy father" before breaking down in tears and containing with his speech.
Susanna and Richard were joined on the programme by Kevin McGuire and Andrew Pierce to discuss the latest Oscars news while Ross King was live from the blue carpet and the show's North America correspondent Noel Phillips was catching the stars elsewhere.
Speaking about the incident, Richard described Rock "rude" and "unlikeable" and that he was the most "unpleasant person I’ve ever interviewed," but Susanna interjected; "I honestly think at the moment there's quite a lot of justifying of someone who just hit someone else on television and just remember, apart from the fact it's not OK to hit somebody, what is that saying to people watching."
Addressing Smith's acceptance speech where he says "love makes you do crazy things," Susanna hit back: "It's not ok to hit somebody," before they showed a clip of his speech.
The hosts went on to discuss what made Smith "snap" and Susanna later said: "I'm really struck by how many people are defending it now and I bet in 24 hours they'll have changed their view," before Andrew questioned how this will affect Smith's career.
Richard, however, argued that Rock was "dabbling his fingers in other people's souls" and a "sensitive area" due to Pinkett-Smith's alopecia battle.
Susanna and Richard's debate on the matter went back and forth throughout the show with Richard commenting that we saw a "moment of flawed humanity" before adding; "Clearly what he did was wrong..." before Susanna jumped in, looking back at the clips before, during, and after the incident, which was at one point confused for being a stunt.
"It's very easy to pass judgement on something like this," Richard said before Ranvir injected and spoke about how she'd feel about her nine-year-old son seeing it. "I'd tell my son, 'listen, you've to control your emotions. If someone tells a joke you walk away and tell someone.' It's crazy now to think that he would think that's ok."
A bit later, Richard read out viewers tweets before adding: "We're being very judgemental, it's understandable it's our job, but we're being judgemental about a situation that's highly emotive and you've just seen that from the people who suffer from it [alopecia]."
Susanna then added: "I'm not being judgemental because it's my job, by the way. I'm being judgemental because I think what he did was wrong.," to which Richard said: "Yeah, that's what I meant. It's our job to say hat we think," before saying he's not sure what he thinks.
"Are you sure you don't know what you think," Susanna replied as Richard said what Smith did was "clearly wrong" but that he "can understand the emotions that underpinned it."
And GMB viewers think there was a bit of tension between the hosting pair.
"Bit of friction between Susanna and Richard this morning! #GMB #Oscars #WillSmith #ChrisRock," @chibba_chris tweeted.
@EddieSays3 commented: "@GMB Don't think Richard agrees with you Susanna #WillSmith."
"Suzanna can’t even look at Richard. Oh dear he dare to see things differently. #gmb," @ChantelO26 wrote.
