Fox Information host Jesse Watters joked he was going to “slap” his colleague Invoice Hemmer for not asking astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams whether or not they “attached” whereas stranded on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) for 9 months.
Watters made the touch upon the March 31 episode of The 5, the place the panel mentioned Hemmer’s interview with Wilmore and Williams, who returned to Earth final month. Co-host Greg Gutfeld stated of the interview, per Mediaite, “Did you see their physique language? Oh, they hate one another. Are you able to blame them?”
Jessica Tarlov added, “They talked lots about what their days regarded like. She even stated that [Wilmore] would Zoom into his Sunday church service each week, in order that they stored some extent of regularity.”
Nevertheless, Watters solely had one query on his thoughts, saying, “Hemmer’s an important interviewer, however he whiffed. The primary query that everyone needed requested was, did they hook up? And he simply left it hanging on the market.”
He continued, “I hope there’s an element two to this interview, Hemmer, as a result of subsequent time I see you, I’m going to slap you foolish.”
Final month, President Donald Trump additionally speculated on a potential romantic connection between the NASA astronauts. Chatting with reporters on the White Home, Trump stated, “I hope they like one another. Possibly they’ll love one another, I don’t know. However they’ve been left up there, consider it. And I see the lady with the wild hair. Good stable head of hair she’s bought. There’s no kidding; there’s no video games together with her hair.”
Wilmore and Williams are each married. Wilmore has two kids and lives along with his household in Houston, Texas. In the meantime, Williams lives together with her husband, Michael Williams, additionally in Houston.
The 2 astronauts have additionally disputed the concept they had been “stranded” or “deserted” in area.
Chatting with reporters at a NASA press convention, Wilmore acknowledged, “The caught and marooned narrative… sure, we heard about that,” including that after technical failures on board their pioneering Boeing Starliner spacecraft, he and Williams merely pivoted to routine ISS crew members.
“The plan went approach off for what we had deliberate. However as a result of we’re in human spaceflight, we put together for any variety of contingencies. It is a curvy highway. You by no means know the place it’s going to go,” Wilmore added.
He continued, “So in sure respects we had been caught, in sure respects, possibly we had been stranded, however primarily based on how they had been couching this, that we had been left and forgotten in orbit, we had been nowhere close to any of that in any respect… Within the massive scheme of issues, we weren’t caught. We deliberate and skilled. Let me remark again on this different [claim], , ‘They failed you’. Who? Who’s they?”
You may watch the video of The 5 section right here.