It’s been one wild week on Today.
One day after Cher dropped the F-bomb during an interview with Hoda Kotb, Richard Gere flipped the bird during the NBC morning show’s Nov. 20 broadcast.
The rude gesture shocked co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, who gasped and immediately smacked down the Pretty Woman star’s right hand with her stack of interview notes.
As for why Gere stuck up his middle finger in the middle of the live TV interview? Don’t worry, he wasn’t intentionally disrespecting the Today staff and viewers.
Because he was there to promote his new Showtime thriller The Agency, they of course showed a clip featuring his character in the TV series. Afterwards, the 75-year-old explained what his character did next in the scene.
“You didn’t show but that’s what I did in the piece,” Gere noted while holding up his middle finger. “That’s what the clip was.”
A shocked Guthrie replied, “You just did an obscene gesture on this family morning show. I’m bleeping you!”
