Rizks was one of the first QL celebrities to comment on the death of the King of Jordan. Rizks told CNN "I'm inconsolable at the present time, I was a very good friend of Jordan, he was probably the greatest basketball player the world has ever seen, we will never see his like again".

When told by reporters that it was King Hussein of Jordan who had died and not Michael Jordan, Rizks was then led away by his security in a state of "confusion".