Molly Qerim’s jaw dropped after Stephen A. Smith told her face that she ate too much cake. This happened when in the middle of celebrating Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo’s birthday on Tuesday.
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First Take was in the middle of celebrating Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo’s birthday Tuesday when the ESPN personality had to stop and remind Molly Qerim not to eat any cake because she already eats too much of it.
Stephen A. Smith: “He’s gonna celebrate with Mrs. Mad Dog. She reached out this morning. She reached out this morning to let us know.”
Molly Qerim: “She’s baking his cake right now. How sweet. I love it. From scratch.”
Stephen A. Smith: “Don’t eat any, Molly. You’ve been eating enough over the last – you ate my cake. “I’m not talking about how you look, you look great, But you ate my cake!”
That moment left Keyshawn Johnson stunned and Molly telling him that the clip would go viral on social media.
“That’s about to go viral,” Qerim predicted. “I blame you when there’s a headline. Going viral, ‘Stephen A. tells Molly she eats too much cake,’ I see the headline now.”
This is not the first tie Stephen A. Smith and Qerim have been in the news.
Rose spoke to GQ via the NY Post about how the rumors bothered him considering he still works with Querim and Smith.
“I still see that, by the way. I might say something about someone’s team and I’ll see, ‘That’s why Molly left him!’ or ‘That’s why Stephen A. kickin’ it wit’ yo ex-wife!’ That’s not true. But, when it happened, it’s two ways for me to handle it as a professional: I work with him, I got love for him, and that’s my brother. I got love for her, we were friends before we were married, we just didn’t work as a couple. I just saw her today. We cool! But for me to see the speculation and for people to assume that was why, it bothered me.”
Rose spoke on how it hurt to see them all trending for the drama.
“It was trending [online], [Smith] was trending, [Qerim] was trending, I was trending. It was a real thing,” Rose said. “And, like, am I about to respond to that? It gave me a real fork in the road. But I didn’t, because I knew it wasn’t true. I would just be fueling those people. Not responding, and finally sprinkling some here and there, it made people who ran with it look less credible. We discussed it. It’s why none of us said anything. People would say, ‘Jalen’s a sucker, Stephen A. snatched his wife and he up there workin’ with him,’ or ‘Look, at Molly, she was talkin’ to Jalen yesterday now she kickin it with…’ That ain’t happen. We all looked at it like: it was such a reach. That’s why none of us have spoken on it.”
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