Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Scrubs star Zach Braff apologizes for comparing Pharrell Williams to a monkey

While live-tweeting the 57th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 8, Zack Braff fired off a controversial racist tweet during Pharell's performance. Though the tweet remained online for hours, the actor eventually deleted it, the original message was a comment on Pharrell Williams.
Pharrell’s Grammy night “Grand Budapest Hotel” styled ensemble for his performance of "Happy" ignited a lot of twitter jokes and many were pretty straight-forward call-outs.
And then there was Zach Braff’s contribution where he shared a “who wore it best’ side-by-side of Pharrell and one of the “Wizard of Oz” flying monkeys named Finley. The 41 year old  Pharrell Williams wore a bellhop costume complete with gold buttons and a round hat.
The tweet also ignited an almost immediate backlash from many twitter users who saw Braff's comparison of Williams and a monkey as racist.
Pharrell is probably someplace sipping tea and unaware he's even in a celebrity feud since he hasn't responded to the racist tweet or acknowledged the apology, Lol.
"I love Pharrell," he said "I thought the outfit he wore was similar to that of my bell hop outfit in Oz. I apologize."Williams is probably "happy" some place else, not even aware of the  yet to comment on the controversy or Braff's apology.
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