Red Table Talkis back!
The acclaimed Facebook Watch talk show — which featuresJada Pinkett Smith, her daughterWillow Smith, and her motherAdrienne Banfield Norrisas they welcome celebrity guests for candid conversations — is returning for its fifth season on Wednesday, with new episodes streaming on the platform weekly.
As always, the series will be packed with famous faces, many of whom are teased in a new season 5 trailer that dropped on Tuesday.
The show’s premiere episode featuring 8-time Grammy nomineeJanelle Monáe, who will open up about her journey to come out later in life as well as the trauma she experienced from her father’s drug addiction.
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“I went through a very heavy duty, out loud, when you’re in the public divorce,” Basinger recalls, of her split from Ireland’s father Alec Baldwin. “I wouldn’t leave the house, I would no longer go to dinner. I had to relearn to drive.”
Ireland opens up about her past experiences with anxiety. “I have been in physical abusive relationship, I have been in emotional, verbal, very gaslit-manipulative relationships,” she says. “I’ve been through a lot of different kinds of abuse.”
Other guests in season 5 will include the Smith siblings —Willow,Jaden, andTrey— will also participate in the upcoming productionRed Table Talkmarking their first solo episode together as a group on the show.
There will be a special episode too dedicated to victims for famous fraudster, featuring Ayleen Charlotte, who helped bring down Netflix’sTinder SwindlerSimon Leviev, and Rachel DeLoache Williams — author ofMy Friend Anna,the tell-all aboutAnna Sorokin, who famously posed as a wealthy German heiress named Anna Delvey. Real estate mogul andShark Tankstar Barbara Corcoran comes with her own warning, revealing how she was the target of a frightening scam that could happen to anyone.
Red Table Talkhas aired 100 episodes and garnered over 1 billion views since its premiere in May 7, 2018. Last season of the Westbrook Studios-produced show featured some of the world’s biggest stars, includingSandra Bullock,Snoop Dog,Salma Hayek,Demi Moore,Keanu Reeves, to name a few.
It’s garnered plenty of acclaim as well, including a 2021 Daytime Emmy for outstanding informative talk show. The hosts were later honored as some ofTime’s “Most Influential People of 2021”.
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The return ofRed Table Talkfollows the events at this year’s Oscars, during whichWill SmithsmackedChris Rockfollowing a joke about Jada’s hair. Smithhas since apologizedto Rock andresignedfrom the Academy, and it was decided that he will not return to the Oscarsfor a period of 10 years.
Red Table Talkreturns to Facebook Watch on Wednesday, April 20 (at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET) with new episodes streaming weekly.
source: people.com
