Richard Gere reprimanded by Savanna Guthrie after making an obscene gesture on the Today Show

The Beautiful woman star appeared on the talk show to promote her new thriller series, The agency for Paramount+.

After showing a trailer for the drama, the cameras cut back to the studio, where Gere then stuck his middle finger up at host Savannah Guthrie.

A panicked Guthrie quickly covered Gere’s finger with his stack of bills and told him, “You just made an obscene gesture on this family morning show!”

“I’m bleeding you!” She added before referencing the fact that Cher had sworn off the show yesterday.

“You know, Cher was here and made an F-bomb yesterday, so I don’t know what’s going on!” she laughed.

The Ongoing Fraud the actor explained that he had made the gesture was because he was about to finish the scene from The agency before it was cut off Todays introductory clip.

“You didn’t show, but that’s what I did in the play!” Gere clarified. “That’s what the clip was!”

“That’s what the clip was, but we cut that part out. But then you did it live!” Guthrie replied.

“I could see it, but it made no sense without it!” he said, adding that he wasn’t trying to offend anyone. “My hand did it, I have no control!”

The agency is based on a French TV series called Bureau. It follows the story of an undercover CIA agent who is forced to abandon his undercover life and return to the London office and see the loose ends he left behind. The series features various notable actors including Jeffrey Wright, Katherine Waterston, Jodie Turner-Smith, Dominic West, Hugh Bonneville and Michael Fassbender.

Before signing on to the TV series, Gere had watched Bureau with his wife Alejandra Silva, which made him excited to be approached to appear on the American version of the hit show.

“It’s very well written… it’s amazing,” the actor said. “I mean, they’re all great. and we shot it like a movie. We do it the same way. Movie directors, movie actors, the schedule is like a movie schedule. It feels the same to me.”

Recently, the actor decided to sell his home in New Canaan, Connecticut, for $10.75 million after saying that he would like to move to Spain so that Silva could be closer to his family along with their two children Alexander, five and James, four. .

First purchased in 2022 for $10.8 million, the home features 11 bathrooms, a three-bedroom guest cabin, a pool and several gardens spread across the 32-acre property.