The View Dressed Little one as Oscars Slap for Halloween, Viewers Outraged

The hosts of ABC’s “The View” celebrated Halloween this yr by dressing as well-known feminine tv characters (Whoopi Goldberg was June from “The Handmaid’s Story,” Pleasure Behar was Peggy Bundy from “Married… with Kids,” and so forth.), nevertheless it’s a special costume on the present that’s courting essentially the most consideration. Throughout a phase wherein children dressed up in costumes impressed by the discuss present’s “Sizzling Matters” phase, the present trotted out a younger boy dressed because the Oscars slap. The costume was a gold physique go well with to make the child appear to be an Oscars statue, plus a pink handprint painted on his face to emulate Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock.

The phase was hosted by Ashley Alderfer Kaufman, who serves as wardrobe supervisor on “The View.” Kaufman informed viewers because the costume was unveiled, “We don’t need to endorse violence of any sort however we couldn’t assist however speak about one of many hottest matters of this yr.”

The “Oscars slap” costume shocked viewers, a lot of whom took to social media to criticize the choice. One viewer stated the costume was in “dangerous style,” whereas another observed, “Troublesome to maintain up with every part however the pink handprint on one’s face is the image for lacking and murdered Indigenous ladies and women. Too dangerous nobody was in a position to flag this costume thought upfront.”

Different costumes that appeared through the phase included youngsters dressed because the Mar-a-Lago raid (a child with a Donald Trump wig dressed as a rest room flushing down FBI paperwork) and inflation (a child sporting an inflatable automotive dealership costume with cash glued on it).

Goldberg, an Oscar winner herself and a longtime member of the Academy, stated Smith’s choice to slap Chris Rock was “not okay” through the episodes of “The View” in March that adopted the incident. She added on the time, “I feel he overreacted. I feel he had a type of moments the place it was like [goddamn it], simply cease. I get it, not all people acts the way in which we wish them to behave below stress. And he snapped.”

“We’re not going to take that Oscar from him,” Goldberg added on the time. “There can be penalties I’m certain.”

Goldberg was right, because the Academy didn’t strip Smith of his Oscar for finest actor however did droop his membership for 10 years. Watch the complete phase from “The View” within the video beneath.