By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Tony Awards have launched a brand new ‘no violence’ coverage forward of their 2022 present following the controversy surrounding the slapgate incident involving Will Smith and Chris Rock on the Oscars.
The award present’s producers revealed the brand new process— which clarifies how they’d deal with a person “in the event of an incident” in a letter to ticket patrons on Wednesday, in line with the Hollywood Reporter.
Oscars reside present was briefly interrupted when Will Smith, this yr’s greatest actor winner, slapped the comic and presenter on the stage for cracking a joke about spouse Jada Pinkett-Smith’s hair. The incident shocked the Hollywood viewers attending the film gala and people who tuned in by means of their screens.
Smith, who later apologised to the comic and the Academy, has been banned from Oscars and their different associated occasions for a decade.
The Tonys are the primary identified main award present to publicly institute a brand new no-violence coverage following the Oscars on March 27.
In the letter obtained by THR and despatched by Tony Awards Productions to attainable ticket patrons for the seventy fifth annual present, producers wrote, “The Tony Awards has a strict no violence policy. In the event of an incident, the perpetrator will be removed from the event immediately,” the letter learn.
The new coverage and different particulars had been reportedly launched amongst different commonplace insurance policies to that embody the costume code, seating, and vaccination required to attend the New York occasion. The Tony Awards will happen on Sunday, June 12.
