Radio persona Charlamagne Tha God, 47, has added his two cents within the back-and-forth between Alexis Ohanian, 42, and Stephen A. Smith, 58.
Ohanian had an issue with Smith blasting his spouse, Serena Williams, for performing alongside Kendrick Lamar on the Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present in February.
Williams, 44, popped up on stage in New Orleans with Lamar, 38, whereas the hip-hop celebrity carried out his chart-topping “Not Like Us” diss monitor directed at her ex-boyfriend Drake, 38.
Earlier than Serena’s cameo on the Tremendous Bowl, Drake had beforehand taken jabs at her and her partner on the “Center of the Ocean” tune in 2022, calling Ohanian a “groupie” on the monitor.
Smith known as out for Williams trolling Drake whereas on a world stage along with her former fling’s bitter rival, Lamar. The ESPN persona even prompt the transfer was a divorceable offense.
Ohanian then pulled as much as Smith’s job throughout a taping of ESPN’s “First Take” program on Oct. 9, though the sports activities pundit appeared on the cable broadcast remotely.
Smith was not within the studio in the course of the now viral, light-hearted confrontation, which led Charlamagne to share his tackle the Ohanian versus Smith scenario throughout a phase on “The Breakfast Membership.”
“I don’t see nothing fallacious with it, however it wasn’t an actual pull-up,” Charlamagne said on Oct. 13. “A pull-up is when the particular person is there and says what it’s essential to say to the particular person’s face.” say to the particular person’s face.”
He prompt that Ohanian ought to have waited till Smith was bodily current in the identical house.
After Ohanian received wind of Charlamagne’s criticism, which included him mistakenly calling the Reddit co-founder “Alex,” he fired again in a tweet that very same day.
“@cthagod — all my pals name me Alexis. And I requested to return on ‘First Take’ to talk with SAS for [quite] a while, (consider I personal a handful of professional sports activities groups and began a T+F league, there’s loads of sports activities stuff to speak about),” Ohanian revealed. “And my publicist saved getting informed it wasn’t going to occur.”
He continued, “Then I went to the highest and made it clear I wished to return on the present to talk in particular person, and so they let it occur. Then I came upon after I received to [the] studio, SAS was distant from ATL that morning. Odd timing.”
Ohanian appears to be waving the white flag as he concluded, “However I’m again to constructing now (ATHLOS was certainly an enormous success) and don’t have any ill-will towards SAS.”
The trade didn’t finish there. On Oct. 15, “The Breakfast Membership” presenters mirrored on the headline-generating debate about how a husband ought to defend his spouse.
“I stand on that. It’s not an actual pull-up. A pull-up is while you have a look at any individual of their eye, face-to-face,” Charlamagne insisted. His co-hosts, Jess Hilarious and DJ Envy, rapidly jumped in to disagree with their colleague.
“It’s Alex Ohanian, what are you speaking about? He not Birdman,” stated Jess taking a jab at one other viral episode of the present when Birdman pulled as much as deal with Charlamagne.
After Charlamagne and Ohanian received their respective takes off, followers additionally weighed in with their ideas on how Smith’s remarks about Williams ballooned into disputes involving a number of different folks.
“Sir, you’re a actual one! I’m loving your vitality and the assist you present your superb spouse. Wishing you, Serena, and your loved ones all the very best,” one X person replied to Ohanian’s clapback at Charlamagne.
A second particular person posted, “The factor is…you’re each proper. Stephen A.’s sentiment was an accurate one, however… he also needs to STFU and thoughts his enterprise. Particularly on such a big platform. Hopefully, the D measuring is finished now. They [are] each method richer financially than I’ll ever be.”
“Alexis is getting uninterested in being the butt of the jokes or listening to folks speaking s–t about his spouse. I don’t blame him,” somebody commented on “The Breakfast Membership” YouTube video.
One other remark learn, “Alexis stated on ‘First Take’ he hoped SAS was going to be there in particular person. Meaning Alexis deliberate on seeing him in particular person. It wasn’t a pull-up, so what? SAS nonetheless punked out.”
However Charlamagne did agree that, “All that stuttering and stammering shouldn’t have occurred, particularly over Zoom. We not even in the identical room.”
Ohanian wed Williams in November 2017 in New Orleans, the identical metropolis that hosted this yr’s Tremendous Bowl LIX. The pair share two daughters, 8-year-old Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. and 2-year-old Adira River Ohanian.
Charlamagne married his highschool sweetheart, Jessica Gadsden, in 2014. The Radio Corridor of Famer and his spouse have 4 daughters whom they saved out of the highlight. Smith has by no means been married, however he does have two daughters, one being 17-year-old actress Samantha A. Smith.