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Jada Pinkett Smith

October 2023

  • Britney Spears in concert

    ‘Juicy revelations are required’: will Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith memoirs satisfy?

    To produce a bestseller, stars must hold back on confessional social media posts and save explosive details for the page
  • Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith at the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild (Sag) Awards in 2022.

    Will Smith: marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith is ‘sloppy public experiment in unconditional love’

    At an event in Baltimore promoting Pinkett Smith’s new memoir Worthy, the actor described their tumultuous relationship as ‘brutal and beautiful’
  • Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith at the 2022 Oscars.

    Jada Pinkett Smith says she and Will Smith have lived separately since 2016

    Actor says she and husband – banned from Oscars after hitting Chris Rock – are not romantically together although they have not divorced

July 2023

  • Stills from Do the Right Thing, Swimming Pool, My Summer of Love and Adventureland

    Sun, sea and flings: our writers on their favorite summertime movies

    From Do the Right Thing to Now and Then, Guardian writers pick the film that reminds them most of the warmest months

April 2023

  • Queen Cleopatra. Cr. Netflix © 2023

    Cleopatra was light-skinned, Egypt tells Netflix in row over drama

  • Kenan Malik

    When Cleopatra was alive, she wasn’t categorised by the colour of her skin

    Kenan Malik

February 2023

  • Adesuwa Oni as the title character in African Queens: Njinga.

    TV review
    African Queens: Njinga review – Jada Pinkett Smith’s docudrama is like a mediocre Channel 5 show

  • Jada Pinkett Smith

    ‘Sometimes it is racism’: Jada Pinkett Smith on prejudice, typecasting and the fallout from that slap

October 2022

  • Jada Pinkett Smith<br>FILE - Jada Pinkett Smith arrives appears at the premiere of "Bel-Air" in Santa Monica, Calif., on Feb. 9, 2022. Pinkett Smith has a book deal with Dey Street Books for a memoir. The book is currently untitled and scheduled for next fall. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

    Jada Pinkett Smith signs deal for ‘no holds barred’ memoir

    Actor will address her ‘unconventional upbringing in Baltimore’ and ‘complicated marriage’ to Will Smith in tell-all due next year

September 2022

  • Willow Smith, August 2022

    Willow Smith on life in Hollywood’s most talked-about family: ‘I always knew I was different from my parents’

    At 10, she was so sick of fame that she shaved off her already-famous hair. Now 21, and five albums in, has the daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith learned to live in the spotlight?
  • From left: Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Trey Smith arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday 27 March 2022. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

    Weekend
    Willow Smith, Marina Hyde on hecklers, the Queen in film – podcast

    This week, columnist Marina Hyde on heckling the royal family and the fallacy of ‘free speech’, fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley talks to Willow Smith about her complicated relationship with the limelight, film critic Peter Bradshaw reviews the many fictional iterations of the Queen, and, finally, writer Niloufar Haidari on why Kourtney Kardashian’s new sustainable fashion line will do far more harm than good.
  • FILE - In this combo of file photos, Chris Rock, left, appears at the the FX portion of the Television Critics Association Winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 9, 2020; and Will Smith appears at the 94th Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Los Angeles on March 7, 2022. Smith has again apologized to Chris Rock for slapping him during the Oscar telecast in a new video, saying that his behavior was “unacceptable” and revealing that he reached out to the comedian to discuss the incident but was told Rock wasn't ready. (AP Photo/File)

    Chris Rock: Will Smith public apology was ‘a hostage video’

    In his first at-length comments on the slap, Rock tells an audience in Liverpool that Smith had impersonated ‘a perfect man for 30 years’ before revealing he was ‘just as ugly as the rest of us’

July 2022

  • Will Smith: ‘It hurts me psychologically and emotionally to know that I didn’t live up to people’s image and impression of me.’

    Will Smith posts emotional apology for the slap: ‘I am deeply remorseful’

    Actor releases video answering questions about the incident at this year’s Oscars where he slapped Chris Rock onstage

June 2022

  • Jada Pinkett Smith

    Jada Pinkett Smith hopes Will Smith and Chris Rock will ‘reconcile’ after Oscars slap

    Actor, who has alopecia, has finally addressed her husband’s decision to slap Rock over a joke about her shaved head at the Academy Awards

April 2022

  • A balding man’s head.

    Hair loss can be traumatic for men too

    Letter: It is right to promote greater awareness of the impact of alopecia, writes Will Trinkwon, but men can struggle with the condition as much as women
  • As soon as the slap aired on TV, celebrity viewers were swift to castigate the actor.

    What next for Will Smith after Oscars slap? Hollywood divided over the star’s future

    Reaction to the Academy Awards incident has veered from acceptance to outrage – and even boredom. With an Oscar-tipped movie in the pipeline for 2023, the star has many options, including baring his soul on a chatshow
  • ‘Art imitates life’ … graffiti of Will Smith's Oscar slap in Berlin

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #28: The winners and losers of ‘slapgate’

    In this week’s newsletter: after days of bad tweets and red carpet reactions, here’s the last word on the biggest Oscars moment of the decade

29 March 2022

  • Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party during the 94th Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday.

    Jada Pinkett Smith calls for ‘healing’ in first comment since Oscars slap

    Actor and talkshow host whose husband Will Smith slapped Chris Rock posts: ‘This is a season for healing. And I’m here for it’
  • Jimmy Kimmel on Smith’s Oscar: ‘it was the first acceptance speech in which the winner apologized to the Academy before he thanked them.’

    Jimmy Kimmel on Will Smith: ‘Even Kanye was like, you went on stage and did what?’

    Late-night hosts discuss the infamous slap and evidence of Ted Cruz’s efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 election
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Jada Pinkett Smith wasn’t the only one furious at Chris Rock’s Oscars gag. I know how traumatic hair loss is

    Arwa Mahdawi
    If you’re going to make fun of sensitive subjects, you’d better be clever about it. ‘Ha ha, she’s bald and looks like GI Jane’ just won’t cut it, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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