The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences isn’t taking any chances with this year’s Oscars ceremony after the absolute fiasco in 2022.

During an interview, the organization’s CEO Bill Kramer told Time that the group has diligently prepared for all kinds of drama ahead of the Academy Awards, which will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12.

“We have a whole crisis team, something we’ve never had before, and many plans in place,” he told the publication. “We’ve run many scenarios. So it is our hope that we will be prepared for anything that we may not anticipate right now but that we’re planning for just in case it does happen.”

It’s all being done as a response to the viral moment during the 2022 ceremony when award nominee Will Smith strode onto the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock across the face for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who was also in the audience. 

Rock responded by saying, “Wow, Will Smith just smacked the s*** out of me,” while an irate Smith returned to his seat, saying, “Keep my wife’s name out your f***ing mouth.”

A short time later, Smith was invited onstage to accept the Best Actor award for his work in “King Richard.” The Academy has since been criticized for allowing Smith to stay in the audience.

The Academy issued a statement later in the evening saying it does not “condone violence in any form.” Smith apologized to Rock and the audience the day after the incident and resigned from the Academy the same week. AMPAS eventually banned Smith from attending the Oscars for 10 years.

The organization’s CEO is adamant that nothing like the slap can happen again, thanks partly to the crisis team being in place.

“Because of last year, we’ve opened our minds to the many things that can happen at the Oscars,” Kramer said of this year’s show. 

“But these crisis plans — the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place — allow us to say, ‘This is the group that we have to gather very quickly. This is how we all come together. This is the spokesperson. This will be the statement.’ And obviously, depending on the specifics of the crisis, and let’s hope something doesn’t happen and we never have to use these, but we already have frameworks in place that we can modify.”

Meghan Markle is furious over how she and her husband, Prince Harry, were portrayed in a recent episode of “South Park” on Comedy Central, according to a new report.

The episode, titled “The Worldwide Privacy Tour,” mocks both royal figures by showing thinly veiled stand-ins for the couple, “The Prince and Princess of Canada,” claim that they are seeking a life of privacy while they seemingly try to inject themselves into the public spotlight.

A source told the Spectator that the Duchess of Sussex was “upset and overwhelmed” by the show’s mockery of the couple and that she “refuses to watch it all” because of how “annoyed” she is by the whole situation.

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The New York Post reported that a royal commentator said that the couple could pursue legal action over the episode.

“According to sources close to the ex-royals, it appears that, like so many things with Meghan and Harry, this may have legal ramifications attached,” royal reporter Neil Sean said. “Their legal team are casting an eye over the episode to see what is wrong, and what could be turned into something more sinister.”

“This appears to be their course of action rather than laughing it off, enjoying the moment and showing the world that they get the joke and understand this is how they may be perceived, and maybe, dare we say, change … dare we?” he continued. “The makers of ‘South Park’ have, as yet, received nothing but I am told they are aware of this and have nothing to fear, simply because they have the legals all over this and know they could not have broadcast it without the watertight details flattened out.”

However, a spokesperson for the couple said that claims that the couple was pursuing legal action were “baseless and boring.”

The Daily Mail noted that the statement from the spokesperson did not address claims that the couple’s lawyers were actively monitoring the show for future attacks nor did the statement address reports that Markle was angered by the episode.