Oscars audience grew after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock

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NEW YORK — The Oscars audience swelled by more than half a million people on Sunday (March 27) shortly after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, capping the awards show with a late-night surge.

At 10:27 pm Eastern time , Smith attacked Rock after the comedian delivered a joke onstage about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Nearly 17.4 million viewers were watching in the minutes after the slap, up from 16.8 million shortly before it, according to Nielsen data released by ABC.

Until that point, viewership had been tailing off. The largest audience measured by Nielsen came earlier in the night, when nearly 17.7 million people watched Troy Kotsur, the first deaf man to win an acting Oscar, deliver a heartfelt acceptance speech for his supporting role in “CODA”.

 

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