Will Smith’s infamous Oscars slap is the UK’s top trending YouTube video of the year. The clip, shared by Guardian News, has racked up over 103 million views and shows the uncensored version of the moment the Hollywood actor stormed the stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock after he made a joke about Smith’s wife.
The one minute 23 second-long video, which has 1.5 million likes on YouTube, shows the moments before Rock makes a joke about actress Jada Pinkett Smith and her shaved head as a result of her medical condition, alopecia, at the Academy Award ceremony in March.
Her husband is then seen storming onto the stage where he slaps the comedian across the face, to which a shocked Rock addresses the audience saying “Will Smith just smacked the s*** out of me”. Smith returns to his seat and is then heard shouting: “keep my wife’s name out of your f****** mouth” at Rock, as stunned members of the audience look on.
