‘Blink Twice If U Need Help’: Nene Leakes Fans Roast Husband Gregg for ‘Frozen’ Facial Expression During Live Session With Erica Mena and Safaree

It looks like fans have questions about Nene Leakes’ husband Gregg Leakes and his waxen expression.

On Sunday, April 12, Nene and her husband Gregg hosted an Instagram Live session with “Love and Hip Hop: New York” couple Erica Mena and Safaree Samuels to discuss sheltering in place and relationships.

During the IG session, Mena told the couple that the stay-home mandates made her realize that she could still take advantage of something as simple as going outside.

“I realized how going outside can be taken advantage of right now even with a baby,” Mena said.

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Gregg Leakes and Nene Leakes (top), Safaree Samuels and Eric Mena (bottom). @neneleakes/Instagram

Nene and Samuels nodded in agreement with Mena, but Gregg sat next to his wife as motionless as a statue with a smile plastered on his face. As the Live continued between the two couples, social media users hilariously pointed out the 65-year-old’s frozen expression.

“Greg look like the screen frozen 😂”

“Nene forgot to change his batteries 💀 you ok uncle Gregg”

“Blink twice Gregg if you need help 😂”

“Gregg this ain’t no damn picture 😬😬 he looking like the Chuck E Cheese band when they not performing”

“Is he frozen? 💀 nonene said don’t embarrass me on this live matter a fact don’t say nothing not a word just smile”

“He didn’t even blink 😩🤣 Y’all know how older people are when it comes to the internet 😩🤣🤣! Unc look so damn lost.”

“My boy tryna see one of Erica’s hush puppies pop out 😍”

Neither Nene nor Gregg has responded to fans poking fun at his stillness abilities.

The two were only recently the talk of social media after the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star revealed she caught her husband FaceTiming another woman.

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Gregg and Nene Leakes on the red carpet at the Lenny Zakim Fund’s Casino Night on March 3, 2018, in Boston. (Photo: Paul Marotta/Getty Images for The Lenny Zakim Fund)

Nene stopped by the “Lip Service” podcast last month and accused Gregg of having an inappropriate relationship with one of their female employees.

“I said, ‘So, you’ve been talking to Juanita?’ And he said, ‘No, I ain’t never talk to her, you gotta be kidding me!’ I was like, ‘OK, you have. Bye.’ He went insane,” said Nene, 51.

The couple eventually discussed their marital issues, and Gregg revealed he felt Nene was absent from their marriage at the time. He claimed that was the reason he began talking to the female employee.

“He [said], ‘We never did anything but just talked on the phone, we never talked about sex, we never talked about anything,’” she further explained, adding that she believed Gregg. Nene, however, ended up firing the woman due to the drama.

The pair celebrated their sixth year of marriage last June after remarrying in 2013. They share one son together.

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