Charlize Theron snapped at a French TV host after he planted a kiss on her interpreter’s cheeky during in a seroously awkward interview.
The Hollywood actress, 43, was left raging during an appearance on Touche Pas A Mon Poste, which translates as Don’t touch my TV.
She was chatting with presenter Cyril Hanouna, 44, with the help of an interpreter, named only as Nadia, when Hanouna puckered up and kissed her out of the blue.
The woman looked uncomfortable in the clinch, prompting Charlize to snap: “Wow, maybe next time!”
The actress was being interviewed alongside her Long Shot co-star Seth Rogen, who added: “Yes.”
The moment caused a sensation on Twitter as viewers threw their support behind Charlize and praised her for standing up for the other woman.
One wrote: “Being an interpreter and a woman, I really appreciate what Charlize Theron said when the TV host kissed her interpreter out of the blue…”
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Another added: “@Cyrilhanouna kissed a girl, @CharlizeAfrica underligned that the girl didn’t give her prior consent and all he does is asking the girl if she was titillated (“émoustillée”).
“No, she was disgusted, objectified and infantilized on TV by you, stupid clown.”
The Oscar-winner made headlines earlier this month when she revealed she is raising her adopted son Jackson as a girl.
She explained that seven-year-old Jackson – one of her two adopted children – was three when the youngster told her: “I am not a boy.”
Charlize has now said she is raising “two beautiful daughters”.
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She told the Daily Mail: “Yes, I thought she was a boy, too. Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!’
“So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive.
“They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide.
“My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be.
“And I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that,” she added.
Charlize, known for starring in films such as The Devil’s Advocate and Mighty Joe Young, adopted Jackson in 2012 and her other daughter, August, was adopted three years later.
