Kevin Hart's history of domestic abuse and homophobia resurfaces after Oscars announcement

December 5th, 2018, 07:57 pm

Kevin Hart's history of domestic abuse and homophobia resurfaces after Oscars announcement

Oscars host Kevin Hart's homophobia is no laughing matter | Benjamin Lee https://t.co/QJCvRmQbRf
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) December 6, 2018

Since he was announced as the 2019 Oscar ceremony host yesterday, some of the offensive things Kevin Hart has said in the past have been circulating on social media.

Considering how many of the Oscars' biggest fans are women and gay men it's quite something for the Academy to hire a guy who beat one wife, cheated on another when she was eight months pregnant and said one of his biggest fears is his son growing up and being gay.
— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) December 5, 2018

Kevin Hart wrote in his memoir about getting physical with his ex-wife and how he ended up spending a night in jail after one of their fights.

A clip from an old standup special where he talked about how much he feared his son being gay and how he knocked over his young son and another boy because they were "having a gay moment" is being brought up.

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Tagged: award show - academy awards, kevin hart, lgbtq / rights, violence / domestic abuse

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WHAT you mean Times Up was bullshit????????????????? I am SHOCKED

Was Times Up ever shit tho?

I mean, the Times Up organization doesn't choose the host of the Oscars. Harts support of it (did he even support it?) would no doubt be bullshit though.

Yeah I just mean the idea of Hollywood acting like it would never accept these toxic people in their circles, was bullshit.

And you know the Oscars were aiming for brownie points after OscarsSoWhite. Oops @ them.

I knew he was a peice of shit when he cheated on his pregnant wife who he cheated on his ex wife to get with...

omg you were in my dream, but you were actually Cheryl. I can't explain it. It was like your ~essence, but her body. I told you that I needed help because I found Jughead hot and you were like "oh honey. I can't help you. You're too far gone." lmaooo

Omg sis that’s hilarious! Hahaha I feel so honored <3

They should still have him host only if one of the skits is a bunch of women and gay people kicking him around like a soccer ball on the stage.

How bout he just not host and we do that for real

Oscars are cancelled, pretend that he's hosting a soccer game and he only learns that he's the ball at the last minute.

Now now - let us not forget his colorism either

He was, is, and always will be garbage.

Each year that passes by, I feel like The Oscars became more and more irrelevant. Pretty sure hiring a homophobic, wife beater as host wasn't going to fix that.

Also I'm glad that this is all coming to light. Unfortunately it won't change a damn thing about his career.

I really wish they'd cut out everything that wasn't just handing out the awards and the music performances. Give us fashion, throw out some trophies, sing a song or two and call it a day!

That’s the only reason people want to watch anyways! The fact that they can’t see it is why they’ll keep failing. They just keep adding unfunny skits on top of more unfunny skits. Kick winners off stage. The show is like 4 hours long.

No thank you. I’ll just read the winners online and look at the fashion pics.

It’s gotten to the point where I’d rather watch the Golden Globes before I watch the Oscars.

He's even more shitty than I thought he was

mess

Wowwwwww I knew about the homophobic stuff (I mean, no surprise there), but I had no idea about the DV. And now a bunch of boring dudes will start with the "uh, comedians make JOKES, OBVIOUSLY" takes and the Whataboutism regarding other shitty Hollywood men and whatever other mental gymnastics they have to use to avoid actually saying something as complex as "I agree that homophobia and violence are bad." And he'll keep the job because no one cares.

whew chile those are a LOT of homophobic jokes

Edited at 2018-12-06 02:44 am (UTC)

He must really badly wanna suck a dick.

He's clearly trash but it also seems like people went through a lot of digging to prove he's trash. I wonder if they went through that same trouble with the previous white hosts.

Edited at 2018-12-06 02:41 am (UTC)

Previous hosts aren't current events.

yeah idk is he going to be removed/canceled/forced to apologize? possibly but not b/c of what he did, b/c he's a black man
white men who have done the same shit are still literally getting handed oscars

treated all these garbage men the same and take them 2 the trash heap

I'm glad this was brought to light but lbr you're not wrong. The people who dug this up probably just came back from seeing Crimes of Grindelwald a 3rd time.

The people who dug this up probably just came back from seeing Crimes of Grindelwald a 3rd time.

LMAO i needed this laugh before heading to bed, ty!

A three second twitter search and a story he told about beating his wife isn't really a lot of digging. If you've even vaguely paid attention to him over the years, the homophobic stuff has always been a recurring thing with him. Jimmy Kimmel was the host the last two years and the stuff he's said and done on the Man Show has been brought up a few times over the past year or two although people mostly ignored it just like they'll probably ignore the stuff with Kevin.

Edited at 2018-12-06 02:53 am (UTC)

I mean lbr we'll be lucky if he's the only person with this rap sheet on stage. The academy doesnt' care about abusers.

This dude ain't funny to me. But he has been in it for a minute...I guess.

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