On January 6, 2014, Transformers filmmaker Michael Bay walked off the stage during a Samsung presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas where he was supposed to be talking about how much he admired one of Samsung’s products. After being brought out on stage, Bay started to talk and then experienced a problem with the teleprompter. Although he thought he could wing it, he couldn’t and simply walked off stage.
After much was made of the incident online, Bay took to his website and posted:
“Wow! I just embarrassed myself at CES – I was about to speak for Samsung for this awesome Curved 105-inch UHD TV. I rarely lend my name to any products, but this one is just stellar. I got so excited to talk, that I skipped over the Exec VP’s intro line and then the teleprompter got lost. Then the prompter went up and down – then I walked off. I guess live shows aren’t my thing.
But I’m doing a special curved screen experience with Samsung and Transformers 4 footage that will be traveling around the world.
– Michael”
