The real Oscars furore? Liam Payne's new accent

JUST sometimes, someone will dare to ask a question that no one has ever asked before.

- Jessie Thompson

Questions like: “What does Liam Payne have to say about all of this?” Coincidentally, that very question was asked yesterday, not long after Will Smith had slapped Chris Rock in front of everyone at the Oscars for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. We were waiting for a statement from the Academy. We wondered how Smith would justify it, if Rock would issue a response, or if Pinkett Smith would make any comment. What we simply did not reckon with was that Payne, in fact, did have something to say about all of this.