Stephen A. Smith has again hit back at Michelle Obama after the former First Lady accused ESPN and its talk show host of being no different to reality TV.
Smith is the star of ‘First Take’ and recently signed a $100million contract with ESPN. He has even teased a possible run for president.
But Smith and the network found themselves in the firing line last week, when Obama compared them to ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta.’
The ESPN star has since blasted Obama over ‘offensive’ comments she made about Donald Trump and now he has directly addressed her jibe.
During an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity on Monday night, the ESPN star suggested Obama’s remarks prove that she leaves sports ‘to her husband’, Barack Obama.
He also pointedly added: ‘You can say Stephen A. Smith is lot of things and will be a lot of things. The one thing you can never say about me is that I’m going to be a housewife.’
Stephen A. Smith hit back at Michelle Obama after she said ESPN is no different to reality TV
‘If I listen to ESPN for an hour, it’s like watching the “Real Housewives of Atlanta,”‘ she said
He told Hannity: ‘She was comparing reality TV to sports TV from the standpoint of watching us go at one another,’ Smith began.
‘Well first of all, there’s no relationship because these are some of the greatest athletes on the planet earth that play professional sports – that’s who we’re talking about as opposed to reality TV stars that can barely act.
‘No 2, when you look at what she’s talking about, you also have to take into consideration that she doesn’t really pay much attention to sports – evidently she leaves that to her husband.
‘And when she talked about ‘First Take’ she talked us arguing with one another, hating on one another. We have a lot of love for one another on ‘First Take’.
‘We get along just fine, we have a blast – laughing, joking, having a ball, yelling at each other about sports sometimes. We’re monotone in our delivery but we have a lot of fun on ‘First Take’. That’s why we’ve been No 1 for 13 consecutive years – and counting.
‘No 3, let me say this to the other people that were on the table with her. You can say Stephen A. Smith is lot of things and will be a lot of things. The one thing you can never say about me is that I’m going to be a housewife. There’s no confusion there. Zero.’
Obama had said on her ‘IMO’ podcast: ‘If I listen to ESPN for an hour, it’s like watching the “Real Housewives of Atlanta”‘
‘It’s the same drama, and they’re yelling at each other, and they don’t get along, you know? I mean, Stephen A. Smith, he’s just like every other talk show host.’ It was then jokingly put to Obama that Smith would be a ‘great Real Housewife’. The popular reality franchise details the lives of well-off women from different regions.
