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Topics: Will Smith, Celebrity, Music, US News
Rhianna Benson
Topics: Will Smith, Celebrity, Music, US News
A video of Will Smith and a pop star engaging in a steamy onstage exchange has gone viral online.
The 'Summertime' hitmaker was seen getting rather hot and heavy with fellow musician India Martínez at the Premio Lo Nuestro awards in Miami on 20 February.
While performing their joint track 'First Love', the pair began dancing closely alongside each other, before Spanish singer Martínez, 39, takes hold of 56-year-old Smith's neck.
She then draws the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor in, with the pair appearing to share a special moment together and coming close to a kiss.
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Naturally, the moment has caused quite the stir online, with some questioning if they actually shared a 'kiss'. While other viewers of the viral footage questioned where Smith's relationship with wife Jada Pinkett Smith currently stands.
Pinkett and Smith have been married since 1997, and share Karate Kid actor son Jaden, 26, and 'Wait a Minute!' singer daughter, Willow, 24.
In 2023, however, the actress claimed she and Smith have been separated since 2016.
That said, the pair have since continued to make public appearances together - including at the 2022 Oscars, where Smith infamously slapped comedian Chris Rock across the face for making a joke about Pinkett.
After seeing footage of the onstage moment, one critic penned: "Inappropriate. Even if it is 'entertainment'."
Another asked in Spanish: "What happened to Jada?"
Though someone else pointed out: "This man is an actor and has kissed plenty of women who is [sic] not his wife, he is a paid entertainer this is legit his job."
The pair have long been considered to have an unconventional relationship, however, and in 2020, Pinkett admitted she and hip-hop singer August Alsina were briefly involved during a period where she and Smith were separated.
"It was a relationship," she revealed on a bombshell episode of her Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk.
"I was in a lot of pain and I was very broken. In the process of that relationship I definitely realised you can't find happiness outside of yourself."
Asked by NBC News at the time why they hadn't divorced, Pinkett, 53, claimed: "I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce, we will work through whatever. I just haven't been able to break that promise."
LADbible Group has contacted Will Smith's representatives for comment.