Richard Gere flashes ‘obscene gesture’ during live 'Today' interview

Richard Gere is causing a scene. 

During an quality connected the "Today" show, the Hollywood histrion flashed his mediate digit successful the aerial astatine big Savannah Guthrie, which caught her by surprise. 

Guthrie scolded Gere and asked, "What did you conscionable [do]?" arsenic she attempted to screen his mediate digit with her stack of papers. 

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"The Agency" histrion Richard Gere amazingly flipped disconnected "Today" big during his interview. (Today/NBC)

"Oh sorry… but that’s what I did successful the piece," Gere referred to his tv country successful his upcoming show, "The Agency."

"You conscionable did an obscene motion connected this household greeting show," Guthrie responded. 

Gere continued to playfully determination astir his manus and appeared to tease the greeting amusement host, arsenic she attempted to screen his each movement.

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Gere was playfully scolded by "Today" big aft his "obscene gesture." (Today/NBC)

"I didn’t recognize I was connected camera," Gere added. "I'm bleeping you," she chimed in.

Guthrie went connected to explicate that music icon Cher dropped an F-bomb connected their unrecorded amusement yesterday and present the amusement had to grip Gere’s "obscene gesture." 

"I don’t cognize what’s happening," she remarked, arsenic she explained they had to chopped retired the country wherever Gere gave the mediate digit successful their clip from the show. "But past you did it live."

Gere is acceptable to prima successful the tv bid "The Agency." (Joshua Sammer/Getty Images for ZFF)

"That’s what the clip was… and it didn’t marque consciousness without it," Gere laughed and said successful his defense. 

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Later successful the interview, the "Pretty Woman" histrion insisted, "My manus did that… I person nary control."

Richard Gere defended himself aft being called retired for his gesture. (Daniele Venturelli/WireImage/Getty Images)

Gere’s actions travel 1 time aft Cher cursed connected the greeting show. 

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While Cher explained a communicative successful her book, "Cher: The Memoir: Part One," she shared proposal Lucille Ball erstwhile gave her astir divorcing Sonny Bono, but warned big Hoda Kotb she "can’t say" the connection connected unrecorded television. 

Pop icon Cher cursed connected the "Today" amusement during her appearance. (Reuters)

Kotb told Cher, "We’ll bleep it," the "Turn Back Time" vocalist shared, "So, she said, ‘F--- it, you’re the 1 with the talent.’"

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As the big was caught disconnected guard, she replied, "OK, we didn’t person the 7 2nd [delay], but we volition for the adjacent feed." Cher past playfully said, "Well, you said I could!"

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