Overview
- Over the weekend at ComplexCon in Los Angeles, Chet Hanks posted video showing him approach Eric André from behind, grab his shoulder and exchange heated words before André was led away by security.
- Hanks’s Instagram caption said André had “NO MEMORY WHATSOEVER” of criticizing him in the press and quoted André as saying the complaint related to Hanks’s past use of a Jamaican accent.
- The clash revives a dispute that began after Hanks’s 2023 appearance on The Eric André Show, when André told Rolling Stone that Hanks’s on-set behavior was “very dangerous,” including an episode with a motorcycle.
- Multiple outlets corroborated the footage and contemporaneous accounts, and André’s representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment after the ComplexCon exchange.
- The incident shows how social media video can escalate unresolved celebrity disputes and refocus attention on questions of on-set safety, cultural appropriation, and the reputations of both men.