He was not so polite.
Richard Gere surprised “Today” host Savannah Guthrie when he started the interview by extending his middle finger to her.
“You made an obscene gesture on this family morning show!” Guthrie said to Gere.
She lifted the papers to hide her hands from the audience and said, “I’m calling you!”
Gere isn’t the only big star to behave badly on “Today.” Cher recently appeared on the show and left a foul languageWhich Guthrie pointed out.
“You know, Cher was here making F-bombs yesterday so I don’t know what’s going on!” He continued.
It seemed out of character for the normally suave “Pretty Woman” star, 75.
But, Gere was doing a scene from his upcoming Paramount+/Showtime detective series, “The Agency.”
To preview the show, “Today” showed a clip of Gere in “The Agency”, but the clip apparently cut off before he could flip the bird. So, he took it upon himself to make it live and finish the scene.
“You didn’t show but that’s what I did in this piece!” Gere explained. “That was the clip!”
Guthrie countered, “That was the clip, but we cut that part out. But then you did it live!”
Gere defended himself, saying, “I could see that but without that it wouldn’t have made any sense!”
He later joked, “My hand did it, I have no control!”
The previous day, on Tuesday, November 19, Cher, 78, dropped the F-bomb while discussing her divorce from her late ex-husband Sonny Bono.
Cher, who just released her new memoirHoda Kotb talks about how she asked Lucille Ball for advice while wrestling with the idea of leaving Bono their marital issues,
When Kotb, 60, asked what Ball said to her, Cher replied, “I can’t say it on TV. Do you want to blip it?
When Kotb assured her that they would hit it off, Cher continued, “I knew him since I was little. I said, ‘Lucy, I’m calling you because to my knowledge there’s never been a situation like yours except mine,'” Cher explained, keeping that ball in mind. Famously left Desi Arnaz In 1960.
“He said, ‘Fuck it, you’ve got talent,'” Cher said.
Kotb and other members of the “Today” team behind the camera gasped and laughed loudly in response to Cher dropping the F-bomb.
Gere’s new show, “The Agency,” premieres Nov. 29 on Paramount+/Showtime.
