Why Richard Gere Flipped Off Today's Savannah Guthrie on Live TV

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It's been 1 chaotic week connected Today.

One time aft Cher dropped the F-bomb during an interrogation with Hoda Kotb, Richard Gere flipped the vertebrate during the NBC greeting show's Nov. 20 broadcast.

The rude motion shocked co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, who gasped and instantly smacked down the Pretty Woman star's close manus with her stack of interrogation notes.

As for wherefore Gere stuck up his mediate digit successful the mediate of the unrecorded TV interview? Don't worry, helium wasn't intentionally disrespecting the Today unit and viewers.

Because helium was determination to beforehand his caller Showtime thriller The Agency, they of people showed a clip featuring his quality successful the TV series. Afterwards, the 75-year-old explained what his quality did adjacent successful the scene.

"You didn't amusement but that's what I did successful the piece," Gere noted portion holding up his mediate finger. "That's what the clip was."

A shocked Guthrie replied, "You conscionable did an obscene motion connected this household greeting show. I'm bleeping you!"

Guthrie acknowledged they had to chopped the motion from the clip for evident reasons earlier quipping, "But past you did it live!" 

However, Gere explained, "I could spot that but it didn't marque immoderate consciousness without that. My manus did that, I person nary control."

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This is the 2nd hilarious personage snafu to deed Today this week. 

As Guthrie joked, "You know, Cher was connected present doing an F-bomb yesterday truthful I don't cognize what's happening!"

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See Guthrie's priceless absorption above.

Today airs weekday mornings connected NBC and The Agency premieres Nov. 29 connected Showtime and Paramount+.

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