Fox News’ Jesse Watters had an embarrassing moment with King Charles and Queen Camilla after he made a crass joke.
On Tuesday, April 28, the 47-year-old and his The Five co-host, Greg Gutfeld, 61, attended President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s White House state dinner, which honored the 77-year-old British monarch and his wife, 78. However, while the night was a success for the president, it wasn’t for Watters.
During the Wednesday, April 29, episode of The Five, Watters admitted that while he greeted the royal couple, he asked Camilla how she found the White House’s beehive, since she and Charles had seen it earlier that day. The conversation took an awkward turn when Watters uttered a political joke. This comes after Trump’s ballroom brag to Charles was exposed.
Harold Ford introduced the segment on the Fox News show by playing a clip of the King’s remarks. He mentioned that Watters and Gutfeld were “sitting courtside” at the dinner.
Emily Compagno and Dana Perino praised their co-hosts for their “dapper” appearance, including Gutfeld’s “very shiny” hair. Ford went on to ask what they thought of their first state dinner.
Watters said he was delayed getting through security because he got his wife Emma Watters’ birthday wrong on the paperwork, but added that he was able to meet the royal couple.
The TV host said Charles “had no idea who I was.” He told his co-hosts, “So I said, ‘I’m on Fox, and I have two shows.’ And he goes, ‘Well, they must really love you here.’ And I said, ‘Yeah.'”
The awkwardness came when he went to greet Camilla. “So we go down, and there’s the Queen. And I said, ‘Well, how was the beehive?’ She goes, ‘It was very good. No one got stung.'”
It was a fair question. According to The New York Times, Charles and Camilla are both “avid supporters of beekeeping.” Earlier that day, they’d been shown the new hive on the South Lawn, which was “crafted to look like the real White House,” the Times noted.
Watters should have ended the short conversation there, but he inserted an inappropriate joke. “And then I said, ‘Well, you know in Washington, D.C., you know, the bees don’t get you, the guns will.'”
“You said that? To the queen?!” Perino asked, shocked, as Watters covered his face with his hands. “And this woman just starts pulling me away from the queen,” Watters admitted as he began laughing.
“That is classic Jesse!” said Gutfeld. “I don’t know what I was saying,” said Watters. “I started mumbling.”
Gutfeld was then asked about what he thought about meeting the King. He said it was “nice,” adding that he had correctly “predicted” what Trump would say to him in a conversation with his wife earlier.
Trump had mentioned that Gutfeld had the “No. 1 show on late night.” Gutfeld said Charles asked where his show aired, and he replied, “On Fox.” Charles replied, “I see, it’s on Fox, very good.”
“You don’t have that kind of time with him,” said Gutfeld about his short conversation with Charles. “Then I took off with Camilla. Yeah — just to horse around.”
“That’s why he won’t be invited back,” said Watters. Compagno added that she thought her colleagues “looked so good” and she was “just so proud” of them, adding that their wives had looked “gorgeous.”
“How can you be proud of us for going to a dinner?” asked Gutfeld. “You looked so good, and you cleaned up well,” replied Compagno.
Watters asked Gutfeld how he managed his bow tie, but Gutfeld admitted he wore a clip-on.
Perino, who saw her fair share of state dinners while working in President George W. Bush’s White House, added that she was “thrilled that they got to go.”
Trump praised Charles for getting the “Democrats to stand” during his address to Congress, as the pair swapped jokes during their speeches at a state dinner.
During the banquet, which came on the second day of the King and Queen’s state visit to the U.S., Charles also made quips about the Middle East crisis, a naked Sir Winston Churchill in the White House, and Trump’s “readjustments” to the White House.
He also joked that “if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking French”, in reference to the Britain and France conflict for control of North America in the eighteenth century.
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