Don Lemon is firing back at Kanye West after the rapper claimed he “started the rumor” that Ye and his wife, Bianca Censori, got “kicked out” of the Grammys 2025.
Ye, 47, created a firestorm when he walked the red carpet of music’s biggest night with Censori, 30, who slipped out of her black fur coat to bear her completely nude body at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Entertainment Tonight later reported that the pair “showed up” to the awards show “uninvited with an entourage of about five people and were escorted out.”
However, an insider told Page Six that the couple left on their own. “He walked the red carpet and then got in his car and left,” the source said.
The source also shared that Ye and Censori’s stunt “was an attempt to replicate the album cover of ‘Vultures.’”
Ye was nominated for Best Rap Song for his collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign on “Carnival” but ultimately lost to Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
On Monday, Ye unloaded on Lemon, 58, claiming the former CNN host “started the rumor” about their abrupt Grammys exit.
Posting Lemon smiling in a since-deleted Instagram post, the 24-time Grammy winner wrote, “This the goofball that started the rumor that me and my wife got kicked out the Grammies [sic].”
He added, “3 decades of innovating music and they always KOONS like this.”
However, Lemon quickly set Ye straight.
Taking to his Instagram on Monday, the TV star shared a video responding directly to the rapper.
“First of all, Kanye … Ye, whatever your name is. I did not start a rumor about you being kicked out of the Grammys. I actually corrected it. I saw someone on your team who asked me to correct it because it had been reported everywhere,” Lemon stated in the video.
“Get your s–t straight. You, of all people, calling me a coon? … That ‘Make America Great Again’ hat must be too tight on your head,” he added, referring to Ye’s repeated support for Donald Trump.
Following Ye and Censori’s shocking red carpet appearance at the 67th annual Grammy Awards, Lemon shared a separate clip on social media, in which he denied the report that the famous couple was kicked out before the show.
“We saw a spokesperson for Kanye and that spokesperson said Kanye was indeed invited, they said that’s a fact, and that he was not kicked out. That is what they are saying on Kanye’s side,” Lemon said.
The Post has reached out to Ye’s team for comment.
