Will Smith has returned to social media following the Oscars slap, and his return isn’t about him rendering another apology to Chris Rock for slapping him to please his wife Jada Pinkett. He’s here with a video of him catching a tarantula at home.
Fox News got more;
Will Smith found himself needing a helping hand from his 29-year-old son Trey as they caught a tarantula while at home in Southern California in a clip shared to Will’s Instagram account Saturday as he waded back into the social media waters following the infamous Academy Awards slap in March.
Smith, 53, sounded terrified as he filmed his oldest child capturing the massive spider underneath a glass bowl in a post captioned, “Posting this from a Holiday Inn.”
“What the whole h–l. That is a big a– spider,” Smith said before his son reassured him, “That’s a tarantula.”
The Academy Award-winning actor only recently returned to the platform after taking a hiatus from social media following the March broadcast of the Oscars during which he walked on stage and slapped Chris Rock during the live telecast. Rock had just finished telling a joke aimed at Will’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Smith and Trey, who he shares co-parenting responsibilities with his ex-wife, Sheree Zampino, battled back and forth between who should truly take responsibility for catching the spider.
“I’m on a chair,” Smith said in the video. “Alright Trey, you gotta get that out of here. Come on.”
Smith added: “You’re young and strong. You can handle the bite.”
Trey turned to the camera stunned, but acted without fear and caught the eight-legged creature underneath a glass bowl. Smith then tried to slide a piece of paper underneath, so they could move the spider outside.
“We’re taking turns,” he assured his son. “We’re a team … OK, he is fast.”
Their late-night adventure wasn’t quite over and Smith was done with trying to move the tarantula out as he said, “I don’t like it at all. We’re selling the house.”
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