Stephen A. Smith has pointedly told Michelle Obama that he will ‘never be a housewife’ after the former First Lady compared ESPN and its host to the ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta.’
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 found himself in the firing line last week, when Obama compared him to a reality TV star.
The ESPN star has since blasted Obama over ‘offensive’ comments she made about Donald Trump voters, telling her: ‘When you were campaigning on behalf of the former Vice President Kamala Harris, you said a vote for Trump was a vote against you and a vote against y’all as women.
‘I want to say for the record – I took major offense to that.’
Now, during an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity on Monday night, Smith suggested that the former First Lady’s ‘housewife’ remarks prove that she leaves sports ‘to her husband’, Barack Obama.
He also 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
‘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 sparked the war of words with comments she made on a recent episode of her ‘IMO’ podcast.
‘If I listen to ESPN for an hour, it’s like watching the “Real Housewives of Atlanta,”‘ the former First Lady said.
‘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.
