{"id":1078049,"date":"2022-05-06T08:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T08:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/will-smith-look-alike-cashing-in-on-chris-rock-slap-charges-1000-per-appearance\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T08:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T08:55:59","slug":"will-smith-look-alike-cashing-in-on-chris-rock-slap-charges-1000-per-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/will-smith-look-alike-cashing-in-on-chris-rock-slap-charges-1000-per-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith Look-alike Cashing In On Chris Rock Slap, Charges $1,000 Per Appearance |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A WILL Smith lookalike has revealed he faces losing stand-in work after some of the star&#8217;s projects were postponed in the wake of his shocking Oscars slap &#8211; but requests for impersonations are booming.<\/p>\n<p>Shad Ellis, 43, said prospective clients are offering him thousands of dollars to re-create the infamous moment Smith attacked\u00a0Chris Rock\u00a0onstage at this year&#8217;s Academy Awards.Mr Ellis, who has been impersonating Will Smith for the last 25 years, was considering pulling the plug on his doppelganger act before the controversial spat sent demand for bookings soaring.<\/p>\n<p>The surge in demand has included swarms of requests on the personalized video message website Cameo, with fans offering to pay him upwards of $90 to say &#8220;Keep my wife&#8217;s name out your f**king mouth&#8221;, as\u00a0Smith warned Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ellis told<em> The US<\/em> Sun that he was also offered upwards of $5,000 by a social media influencer with 29 million followers who wanted to fly him out to LA to film a parody of the\u00a0Smith-Rock bust-up.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_home_topstory\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(17, 97, 142); font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\nRead Full Story &#8230;.<br \/>\nthesun.co.uk >>><br \/>\n<\/span> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\"><\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. 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