ABC bleeped out the expletive-ridden exchange that followed Will Smith’s blow to Chris Rock’s face during Sunday night’s Academy Awards — but it didn’t matter since unedited footage of the incident leaked onto social media just minutes later.
As is customary for broadcasts of live shows, ABC’s feed was on a 20-second delay to enable producers to cut or bleep foul language or any other display that potentially violates Federal Communications Commission guidelines.
But while the audio was cut and censored for several seconds, closed captions indicated that the “King Richard” star said, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth.”
International broadcasting crews, meanwhile, were beaming the raw feed of the awards show to global audiences. Audio from the uncensored Australian broadcast appears to confirm this, including…
