A couple of days ago, an audio recording made during Jamie Foxx’s Sirius radio show had the actor talking about teen star Miley Cyrus in very vulgar and offensive terms. Since then, Foxx has more or less apologized to Miley, but father Billy Ray says the family is still deeply upset about the things he said on air, as
Us Magazine informs.
Appearing on the Bonnie Hunt Show, Billy Ray says that the kind of comments that Foxx made in relation to his 16-year-old daughter are simply too offensive to be brushed aside as a simple “joke,” as the actor tried to do the other day during a television talk show. If Billy Ray Cyrus were to do the same to Foxx’s daughter, the singer underlines, he would certainly not appreciate the “humor” in that.
“It was hurtful. There wasn’t nothing funny about it. And, quite frankly, I think if I said those things about his daughter, he might not find it so comedic.” Cyrus tells. He is not alone in saying that Jamie Foxx’s comments were completely out of line as, since the recording was posted on YouTube, people have been stating the same. For a man who also has a teen daughter, Jamie Foxx should have shown some restraint and not refer to Miley in those highly offensive terms, even if he did so in the name of his “art” as a comedian as he claims, they say.
“I am a comedian, and you guys know that whatever I say, I don’t mean any of it. And sometimes, as comedians, as we do, we go a little bit too far… There was a situation with Miley Cyrus, and I just want to say, I apologize for what I said. I didn’t mean it maliciously.” Foxx shared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno
by means of an apology. In the same interview, Foxx looked straight into the camera at one point, as if addressing Miley, and said, “Miley, I apologize, so I’ll call you. I got a daughter too, so I completely understand.”
Such an apology is not enough, it has been pointed out. The words that Foxx used to describe Miley on his radio show, including his remarks on how she needs to
do some heroin like Britney Spears, smoke crack and grow up (among many others that cannot be reproduced in print), require a heartfelt apology and not just a mock one, celebrity bloggers and e-zines emphasize.
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