'Disrespectful': Celebs Speak Out After Babyface Snubbed By Reporter At Grammys

LOS ANGELES — The Associated Press is apologizing after a red carpet snub was captured on video ahead of Sunday’s 67th Annual Grammy Awards, when a reporter interrupted R&B legend Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds in an attempt to get the attention of pop singer Chappell Roan.

In the video, Associated Press reporters Krysta Fauria and Leslie Ambriz are interviewing Edmonds when Fauria appears to spot Roan, who won best new artist Sunday, approaching on the carpet and calls out, “Chappell! Chappell!” — interrupting Edmonds mid-sentence.

“You guys want to do that? Go do that,” Edmonds said, smiling and looking back toward Roan before handing his microphone to Ambriz, who apologized as he left.

Musicians took to social media to call out the snub, although Edmonds himself was not among them.

“The industry tends to have a really bad habit of doing very disrespectful things to people that should be honored,” Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men said in a video on Instagram.

Dionne Warwick shared a video of the incident on X with the caption, “13x Grammy Award winning Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds? Am I seeing this correctly?”

At the end of the Associated Press live stream of the red carpet, Fauria and Ambriz both weighed in on what happened.

“I’m really sorry about interrupting Babyface earlier,” Fauria said. “Chappell Roan had come up and there was a lot of commotion, as there is on these carpets, but I’m a big Babyface fan and as are we all, and so I just wanted to say that I really apologize.”

Ambriz added that “it’s unfortunate that I was involved” and “I should have done more to stop it.”

The outlet also issued an apology on X.

“We are deeply sorry for cutting our interview with Babyface short on our YouTube livestream of the Grammys red carpet,” the Associated Press posted. “We have apologized to him through his representative and to our viewers on the livestream.”