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People are review bombing a NJ bagel shop for not spreading cream cheese

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As I’ve mentioned one or two or a trillion times, I had a lovely beach interlude at the Jersey Shore last week. Not gonna lie, the reentry to “reality” has been a bit of an emotional crash landing — much like the physical ass-whooping I got from the ocean herself each and every time I attempted a graceful exit, only to be slapped down on the sand over and over again until the lifeguard sidled up to hoist me back to standing. It really was a wonderful trip! Anyway, I was in Asbury Park, where the boardwalk is fun, the restaurants are fab, and the Bruce worship is real. But if I’d traveled a little further south, I could’ve popped into Seaside Park, a shore town now living in infamy thanks to a controversial bagel shop. How controversial could a bagel joint called Bella’s really be? Well, earlier this month TikToker Valentina posted photographic evidence of two bagels purchased from Bella’s in which there is a shocking lack of cream cheese spreadage. The situation devolved from there.

“Bella’s Bagels in Jersey Shore, what is this?” she says as she holds a bagel with a thick block of cream cheese centered between the two halves, which appears to not have been spread. “Did you just cut Philadelphia cream cheese and put the freaking block?”

“And I know it’s not a mistake, because what is this?” she says, showing off a second bagel with cream cheese, even worse than the first. There’s so much cream cheese plopped on one side of the bagel that there is a visible cavernous space on the other side.

“This is not OK, guys, you have to spread your cream cheese,” she says.

In response, Valentina received over 12,000 mostly supportive comments.

…Bella’s Bagels, which also has a TikTok account, posted an indirect response video but later deleted it after receiving backlash. And because the internet is forever, it was reposted by another TikToker.

“This is how we actually make bagels with cream cheese,” an employee says in the now-deleted video.

She shows the process: cutting the bagel, toasting it and, finally, spreading the cream cheese.

…And if it wasn’t clear that the video was directed at Valentina, the closing line really seals the deal.

“And just to be clear, it’s at the Jersey Shore, not in the Jersey Shore,” the employee says, referencing the opening line of Valentina’s TikTok.

The video didn’t go over well, with many calling it “rude” and “passive aggressive.”

“Well hers didn’t look like this soooo,” noted one TikTok user.

Now, Bella’s Bagels’ TikTok account is being inundated with negative comments, many of them photos of the offending bagel, and its Yelp page has been frozen due to review bombing.

Valentina posted an update on Aug. 11 asking people to stop tagging the bagel spot.

She also said some of the employees reached out through their personal TikTok accounts, offering to remedy the situation, which she “appreciated” but “left it alone” until she saw the now-deleted video from Bella’s Bagels.

“Now I see that the company is actually posting a video, and they’re throwing shade at the end, which is so unnecessary,” she says in the video. “Like, if you are trying to fix bad PR, you should probably respond to me and not like, make a snide comment — that’s just my two cents.”

[From Today.com]

I don’t know, sounds to me like Valentina can schmear it out but can’t take getting schmeared back! She called out Bella’s Bagels for a double case of improper cream cheese spreading; I don’t think it’s “snide” or “passive aggressive” for Bella’s Bagels to respond in kind with their own vernacular correction. Valentina opened the door — very publicly! — and to me it seemed like Bella’s was just volleying back. But then again, I am a word nerd, and Valentina saying “Bella’s Bagels IN Jersey Shore” hit me like nails on a chalkboard. And I’m from San Francisco! (Though an honorary Jersey Girl through family lineage.) That’s just my two cents.

As for the crime at issue, the spreading of the cream cheese or lack thereof. I have watched both TikToks, the initial complaint and the rebuttal, and have rendered judgment as follows: the schmear spreading policy as laid out in the restaurant’s video is more than satisfactory, it’s exemplary (soft schmear spread to the outer rim). It’s also totally not the bagel(s) Valentina received! Someone definitely fell down on Valentina’s order. But is it worth Bella’s getting toasted by hordes of internet people who’ve never been there? That seems like an overly-charred response.

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Restaurateur Keith McNally: James Corden called 4 times to delete post about him

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British expats Keith McNally, owner of Balthazar and many other NYC dining hotspots, and actor/comedian James Corden got into some searing beef in October 2022: McNally called out Corden for at least two instances of Corden being rude/abusive to Balthazar waitstaff — one of which had something to do with there being egg whites in his wife’s yolks-only omelette — and banned Corden from the restaurant henceforth; Corden privately contacted McNally to apologize and the ban was lifted; Corden then said “I haven’t done anything wrong” in a NY Times interview, prompting McNally to reinstate the ban; Corden returned to hosting The Late Late Show and publicly apologized to Balthazar waitstaff; no change in the ban. And all that happened in the span of a week! Cut to May 2025 and McNally has written a memoir, I Regret Almost Everything (10/10 on the title, a close second to actress Kaye Ballard’s How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years), and McNally is spilling more piping hot tea about what went down that fateful week in October:

Restaurateur Keith McNally brags in his new memoir that James Corden begged him to take down a scathing social media post that called out the TV host for being rude to his staff.

“Corden called me four times the day the post came out, each time asking me to please delete it. On the last call he sounded desperate,” the Balthazar owner, 73, writes in “I Regret Almost Everything,” according to an audiobook obtained by People on Thursday.

“Relishing my hold over someone so famous, I told him I wouldn’t delete it. Like a little dictator, I was intoxicated with the power I’d received.”

In October 2022, McNally alleged via Instagram that Corden, now 46, was “the most abusive customer” to his Balthazar servers “since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.”

He further claimed he had to “86” — which means ban — the comedian from all of his establishments due to his “treatment” of staff at the iconic French brasserie as well as Cafe Luxembourg.

Corden later insisted to the New York Times that he had done “nothing wrong,” adding, “I feel so zen about the whole thing. Because I think it’s so silly. I just think it’s beneath all of us. It’s beneath you. It’s certainly beneath your publication.”

McNally then blasted the former “Late Late Show” host for “lying” in an additional Instagram post.

“I’ve no wish to kick a man when he’s down. Especially one who’s worth $100 Million, but when James Corden said in yesterday’s NY Times that he hadn’t done ‘anything wrong, on any level,’ was he joking?” he wrote at the time. “Or was he denying being abusive to my servers?’”

…McNally now admits in his new book that he fanned the flames of the feud for clout.

“By exposing Corden’s abuse, it appeared as though I was defending a principle, when all I was doing was seeking the approval of my young Balthazar staff,” he writes.

The very outspoken Pastis owner goes on to admit it seems “monstrous” that he did not consider the “humiliation” he was subjecting Corden to, adding, “Especially as I hadn’t personally seen the incident I so vividly described on Instagram.”

McNally points out, however, “I’m not suggesting Corden didn’t deserve the backlash from my post. (The b—— probably did.) I’m just saying I didn’t see the incident I wrote about that, to some degree, jeopardized his career.”

[From Page Six]

What is happening here?! You know what, don’t tell me, cause whatever it is, I’m LOVING it. I thought it was pretty universally understood that McNally came out the winner in the Balthazar Wars, for sticking up for his staff and not tolerating entitled, crappy behavior from a celebrity. So… why is McNally now issuing an apology? Albeit a sorry, not sorry, somewhat backhanded apology, for sure. What with the way he A) reminds everyone of the incident, B) dishes the new juicy tidbit of Corden repeatedly calling in escalating levels of panic to have the post removed, and C) claims his own actions “jeopardized” Corden’s career. That kind of comment can be delivered so many different ways! Which is why the only logical step forward is to see and hear both men live, to get a better sense of intent. I propose having a book release slash Corden-is-no-longer-banned party, held at Balthazar, of course, and instigated moderated by Andy Cohen, with devilled egg yolks on the menu. Men get into such dramatic catfights!

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Ina Garten on Martha Stewart: ‘that was 25 years ago… it’s time to let it go’

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Martha Stewart disparaged a variety of people while promoting her Netflix documentary, Martha, and her 100th cookbook, Martha: The Cookbook: 100 Favorite Recipes: A Colon Is A Good Thing. One of the first instances happened before either project was released, when Martha was asked by The New Yorker to give a quote on her (alleged) friend, Ina Garten, who had her own book coming out. Instead of offering a nice little anecdote, as people usually do when contributing to a profile, Martha said that Ina snubbed her after she went to prison. Ina rebutted with “recollections may vary,” and Martha’s publicist promptly waded in telling The New Yorker “there’s no feud,” and that Martha wasn’t “bitter at all.” Methinks the publicist doth protest too much. Well, Ina was at a Q&A last week, and she reiterated her position that Martha’s version of events “isn’t exactly accurate,” and also suggested that after two decades, it was “time to let it go.” If only the documentary cameras had still been rolling to capture Martha’s reaction!

Ina Garten is addressing her falling out with Martha Stewart.

During a live Q&A at the PEOPLE offices on Dec. 5, Garten, 76, spoke about her former friendship with the lifestyle mogul. Stewart, 83, had previously claimed that Garten stopped speaking to her after Stewart went to prison in 2004 — but now Garten said that’s not true.

“Well, let’s just say her story isn’t exactly accurate,” Garten rebutted.

“And, you know, that was 25 years ago,” she added with a laugh. “I think it’s time to let it go.”

The celebrity chefs met in the Hamptons, N.Y., in the 1990s. While friends, Garten wrote a column for Martha Stewart Living. Stewart also brought a publisher to Garten’s specialty food store The Barefoot Contessa, which led to Garten landing her first book deal.

Garten — who released her latest book, a memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, on Oct. 1 — told The New Yorker in September that distance was the reason the friendship ended. According to Garten, she and Stewart lost touch when she moved to Connecticut and Stewart stayed in New York.

Stewart told a different story. “When I was sent off to Alderson Prison, she stopped talking to me,” Stewart said. On the Oct. 20 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Stewart made similar claims.

Stewart’s publicist added to The New Yorker that she was “not bitter at all and there’s no feud.”

At the Oct. 21 NYC premiere of her Netflix documentary Martha, Stewart told PEOPLE that a reconciliation between her and Garten was unlikely.

“She’s into her own thing,” Stewart said. “That’s okay.”

[From People]

You know what? I think this is good for Martha, having someone bite back. Don’t get me wrong, I hope Ina has solid security measures in place after publicly calling Martha a liar and telling her to get over it. But let’s see if Martha rises to the occasion. Like a salty souffle. For what it’s worth, and in the name of peace and reconciliation, I would like to point out to both Martha and Ina that Amazon pairs their latest books when you scroll down to “frequently bought together.” As for Ina’s explanation on how they lost touch — because she moved away from Martha in New York to that far off land… Connecticut! — as a resident of the tristate area I definitely did an eye roll. People can drift apart, and that’s fine and a full explanation itself as far as I’m concerned. But commuting and communicating between NY and CT is not an insurmountable hill to climb if they’d wanted to, lol. The woman I still feel the most sympathy for out of this story is Martha’s publicist Susan Magrino! Do you think she has these denials pre-recorded on her phone, and trots them out as necessary? Martha Stewart calls Ryan Reynolds “not so funny in real life.” Susan: “There’s no feud!” NY Post columnist claps back at Martha Stewart after Martha said she was dead. Susan: “She’s not bitter at all!” Being prepared: it’s a good thing.

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reminisced about their feud during X-Files

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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny have been subjected to so many different rumors since their days on The X-Files. Two of the most persistent ones were that they were either sleeping together (remember when people tried to insinuate that Gillian’s now 16-year-old son, Felix, was secretly David’s son because his name is an anagram for “x-file”?) or that they hated each other. The first rumor was just baseless gossip, but there was something to the second one, which they both have confirmed in past interviews. During the show’s original run, things ended up getting so tense between the two of them that they’d go for weeks without speaking to one another.

My favorite TV duo has since mended fences and are now good friends. When David started his podcast, Fail Better, over the summer, Gillian made a really nice Instagram post praising it and naming specific episodes that she particularly enjoyed. David responded in her comments with an open invitation. Well, those two crazy kids were able to get their schedules together and Gillian is this week’s guest! David doesn’t waste any time and kicks off the episode by bringing up their old feud. They talk through it, and funnily enough, both have very different memories (and non-memories) of that time period.

“There was a long time, working on the show, where we were just not even dealing with one another off camera,” Duchovny recalled about six minutes into the episode, published Tuesday. “And there was a lot of tension ― which didn’t matter, apparently, for the work, cause we’re both fucking crazy, I guess. We could just go out there and do what we needed to do.”

“That is kind of crazy,” Anderson agreed. “I mean, it’s crazy that we were able to present on camera, you know, the various feelings and emotions and attraction and all that kind of stuff, but then not speak to each other for weeks at a time.”

Although the two actors are friends now, the pair openly disliked one another during the initial run of “The X-Files” from 1993 to 2002. As noted by The Independent, Duchovny told Metro in 2008 that he and Anderson “couldn’t stand the sight of each other.” Anderson told The Guardian in 2015 that their relationship was “intense,” acknowledging that both parties were “pains in the arse” and “there were definitely periods when we hated each other.”

Perhaps with this in mind, it only took Duchovny 11 minutes into Tuesday’s podcast to tell Anderson that he had a specific memory “of the most dysfunctional we ever were,” and ask if she could guess which incident he was thinking of.

“Tell me,” Anderson replied, seemingly having no idea what Duchovny was referencing.

The “Californication” star said the incident occurred the day after “some Emmys [ceremony],” and that he’d offered to give Anderson a lift to Vancouver on a private jet.

“And you were late, and I was so angry,” Duchovny recalled. “And then we sat on this private plane flying to Vancouver from L.A., not talking, and you wrote me a letter. So, you’re just like, six feet away from me, writing a letter to me… and it’s a beautiful letter. I don’t remember it exactly, but it was appreciative, and it was all the things that I wanted to hear. But it’s just amazing that we couldn’t just have [a conversation]. You know, the fact that it’s a private plane, it’s just all ridiculous.”

“I had no memory that we were even on a private plane together, let alone that I wrote you a letter on one,” the “Sex Education” star admitted.

But Duchovny wasn’t done. He recalled another moment during the filming of Season 1 when the two were butting heads so hard that the show’s creator, Chris Carter, pulled them into his office for a weird proposition.

“Chris was like, ‘Do you guys want to go, like, into therapy?’” Duchovny remembered. “And I was like, ‘You mean, as Mulder and Scully? I’m confused.’”

Anderson said she didn’t recall this instance either, and struggled to name a specific moment in which the two of them were terrible to one another.

[From HuffPo]

Man, things must have been really bad on set if Chris Carter was offering them joint coworker therapy. I find it so interesting that while both agree that things got to a point where they didn’t like each other, they both have such different yet valid memories of events. It’s kinda crazy that the private plane thing and letter, something that’s stuck with David for decades, were merely a blip on Gillian’s radar. I think it’s a really fascinating look at human nature and how we each perceive things differently. As someone who suffers from a lot of anxiety, I have to constantly remind myself that just because I think someone is interpreting something that I did or said a certain way, it doesn’t mean that they actually are.

As a huge fan of both Gillian and David, I listened to the whole episode. I’m so happy that they get along so well now. They spend a fair amount of time clearing the air about different things that went down, with each sharing their perspective and lived experience. David apologizes for quitting the series during its original run without talking to her about it first and Gillian tells him that she never once blamed him. When he mentions that he was hurt when Gillian decided not to come back after the 2016/2018 revival seasons, she explains that she was merely frustrated at how “problematic” Scully’s story arc had gotten and felt it was time to move on. It was a very thoughtful, mature conversation. The funniest part, though, was a recurring joke they kept making about Gillian’s new drink, G Spot, and her “G Spot Team.” She brings one for David to try and tells him that it’s an aphrodisiac, so you can imagine the giggling and jokes that follow. Like I said, it’s a good listen for X-Files fans.

You can listen to Fail Better here. There’s bonus content from Gillian’s appearance for Lemonada Premium subscribers.

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Martha Stewart: Ina Garten snubbed me after I went to prison

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Martha Stewart and Ina Garten have known each other for decades. Not surprising, considering they’ve built their respective NY-based brands in similar fields, though Ina has kept her focus on cooking whereas Martha sought dominance over home arts at large. As fate would have it, both of them have biographical projects coming out next month: Ina’s memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens on October 1, and the Netflix documentary Martha on October 30 (whether the real Martha likes it or not). So these women are knee-deep in promotional duties, to the point where they’re even overlapping. The New Yorker recently ran an article on Ina, and they called on Martha for some comments. This is standard practice for profiles, and it’s generally understood that the people contacted offer positive anecdotes on the main profile. But not our Martha! Instead Martha told the magazine that Ina snubbed her when she went to prison, and that it was terribly “unfriendly” of the contessa.

“When I was sent off to Alderson Prison, she stopped talking to me,” Stewart said. “I found that extremely distressing and extremely unfriendly.” (Although she maintained her innocence, Stewart was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction and two counts of lying to investigators related to her involvement in an insider trading scandal in 2004. She was sentenced to five months in prison, five months of home confinement and two years of supervised probation.)

While Garten “firmly” denied Stewart’s recollection of the end of their friendship, Stewart’s longtime publicist, Susan Magrino, maintained that Stewart was “not bitter at all” about the fallout.

“There’s no feud,” Magrino, 62, told The New Yorker.

Stewart and Garten first crossed paths in the early ‘90s after Stewart was shopping at the latter’s now-closed Barefoot Contessa store in East Hampton, New York.

“We were in a gigantic black Suburban,” Chip Gibson, who was head of Crown Publishing at the time, told The New Yorker. “And suddenly she veered almost crashingly to the curb and said, ‘I’ve got to get lemon squares.’”

“My desk was right in front of the cheese case and we just ended up in a conversation,” Garten told TIME of their meeting in 2017. “We ended up actually doing benefits together where it was at her house and I was the caterer, and we became friends after that.”

Stewart later connected Garten with an editor, who would go on to work with the future Food Network star on her first cookbook, The Barefoot Contessa. Nearly one decade after meeting, Stewart introduced viewers to Garten during a 1999 episode of her Martha Stewart Living.

Stewart also penned the foreword of Garten’s cookbook, in which she wrote, “It took a while, but I finally understood what motivated Ina, realizing that here was a true kindred spirit with really similar but unique talents.”

Additionally, Stewart’s production company tried to help launch Garten’s television career on the Food Network with a show whose working title was Someone’s in the Kitchen With Ina. However, after a director called her out for taking a bite of food on camera and speaking with her mouth full, Garten said she decided TV wasn’t for her and the show was shelved.

She would later go on to star on the network’s hit cooking show Barefoot Contessa, which ran from 2002 to 2021.

Though rumors of bad blood between the pair have plagued them for years, Garten hasn’t shied away from praising Stewart.

“I think she did something really important, which is that she took something that wasn’t valued, which is home arts, and raised it to a level that people were proud to do it and that completely changed the landscape,” she previously told TIME. “I then took it in my own direction, which is that I’m not a trained professional chef, cooking is really hard for me — here I am 40 years in the food business, it’s still hard for me.”

[From Us Weekly]

You know who I feel for? Martha’s publicist! “There’s no feud! Martha’s not bitter! Nothing to see here!” I don’t think this story will damage either Ina or Martha’s reputations; if anything I think each woman comes out maintaining her publicly-perceived image. But I must ask, what was Ina expecting?! I mean, we’re talking about the same Martha Stewart who criticized Ina for being pro cosmo-drinking as we were all muddling through the pandemic (a comment Martha made while launching a chardonnay line, btw). The same Martha Stewart who’s ready for her friends to die so she can date their husbands. I think it’s fair to say that if you’re turning to Martha for a character reference, that gamble is entirely on you. The real scoop of The New Yorker article, in my opinion, is the account of Martha nearly crashing into the Barefoot Contessa yelling, “I must have lemon squares!!!” I need a dramatization of this event put on screen STAT.

PS — I simply adore the title Someone’s in the Kitchen With Ina.

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Bethenny Frankel got a fake Chanel logo tattoo on her shoulder

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It has been one week since Bethenny Frankel was turned away from a Chanel boutique in Chicago. Chanel told her it was because she didn’t have an appointment; Bethenny thinks it was because she wasn’t dressed “classy” enough for the luxury brand. She was also carrying a large bag of popcorn at the time. The popcorn is not strictly relevant, but remains one of my favorite details so I feel compelled to mention it. The next day she went back clad in a Chanel-like Self-Portrait look (sans popcorn) and filmed herself being granted entry without an appointment, no problem. Ok, Bethenny, stunt well done. Glad you feel you’ve made your point— What’s that now? In the week since, eight of her 10 Instagram posts have been more Chanel trolling? Yup, Ms. Frankel can’t seem to quit shading Chanel. Her latest gag, chronicled on TikTok, shows her getting a tattoo (it’s fake) that is revealed at the end to be the Chanel logo:

Bethenny Frankel’s war against Chanel isn’t ending anytime soon as she happily trolled the luxury brand with a new tattoo.

The “Real Housewives of New York City” alum recently visited a famous tattoo shop in New York, claiming she wished to get a “meaningful” body art. The hilarious journey had her fans cracking up and begging Frankel to never stop being a savage queen.

Frankel, a rising star on TikTok, recently updated her page with two videos detailing her journey to get a tattoo.

The first clip began with the reality TV star rocking her signature cowboy style, featuring a cowboy hat over a white tank top, a mini denim skirt, and complimentary cowboy boots.

“Come with me to get a tattoo. Let’s do this,” she excitedly declared before walking into Vibes Ink Tattoo in New York. She filmed herself meeting the store’s employees, raving about how she respected the family-owned business before meeting the owner and lead artist, Taboo.

“I want something meaningful,” Frankel told him before tapping her upper right arm when Taboo asked where she wanted it. The pair soon develop an amicable bond, dancing to the background music while the tattoo artist got his gear and black ink.

Following the preparations, Taboo held what appeared to be a tattoo gun and asked Frankel, “You sure about this?” To which she confidently replied “Yes” before the artist began his work.

The comment section of the first post had several fans speculating if Frankel was genuinely getting a permanent tattoo or a temporary one to shade Chanel. However, Vibes Ink Tattoo’s tattoo shop confused many be claiming, “We only do permanent tattoos [wink emoji.]”

The questions about Frankel’s body art were finally answered in the second video when Taboo cleaned her arm and began to draw. Eventually, he dropped the device and declared, “Alright, that’s it, man. We’re done.”

Frankel excitedly squealed her thanks before hugging the tattoo artist, getting her bag, and exiting the shop. The camera doesn’t pan to her new body art until the last minute, revealing what fans had feared — a black Chanel logo.

“She is nothing if not committed,” the 53-year-old captioned the post alongside a slew of hashtags that showed she was committed to trolling Chanel following her disastrous encounter at one of the brand’s stores.

[From The Blast via Yahoo! Entertainment]

“She is nothing if not committed,”… to pretending to get a tattoo, lol! No, I know she means the commitment is to the endless gags. But this is a lot, not to mention very time consuming! So multi-millionaire Bethenny Frankel — who can afford to drop $20K on a Chanel purse of questionable taste and function — wants to be the champion of casual dressing? Fine. I know as a culture overall we veer more and more in that direction (when I went to high school REDACTED years ago I swear more than half of the students wore pajama pants to class everyday). But there’s something that just seems a bit off with Bethenny being the conveyor of this message. She’s been leaning hard into the Pretty Woman “BIG mistake!” essence of it all, as if her net worth is not an estimated $80 million. I know the point is don’t judge someone by their looks, but I can’t help feeling that it’s an easy look for Bethenny to don, when it suits her.

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Kelly Osbourne really seems to hate her former Fashion Police costar Giuliana Rancic

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I cannot believe it will be 10 years in September since we lost the late, great Joan Rivers, may she rest in punch lines. My mother and I were so happy for her when Fashion Police took off on E! in 2010 and we never missed an episode. To this day there are comments she made when covering Will & Kate’s wedding that make me howl. And I enjoyed cohost George Kotsiopoulos; he wasn’t a big name at the time (at least not to me!) but he was funny, mature, and clearly knew his fashion. And then there were Giuliana Rancic and Kelly Osbourne. Yeah. Giuliana’s inclusion always felt like it came with the deal of E! producing. I don’t know why Kelly was there.

The show never bounced back after Joan’s passing, and of course the cataclysmic event that I think was the start of its ultimate undoing was Oscars 2015. Giuliana made a terrible comment on Zendaya’s dreadlocks (Z was 18 at the time), Kelly claimed she warned ahead of time that the “joke” was a bad idea, and shortly thereafter Kelly left the show in righteous fury. Well, Kelly wants us to know that nine years later… she still f–king hates Giuliana Rancic. Maybe “hate” is too strong a word. As Kelly said of Giuliana this week on her family’s podcast, “as far as I’m concerned, she doesn’t exist.”

Kelly Osbourne dismissed her former “Fashion Police” co-host Giuliana Rancic as irrelevant in Tuesday’s episode of her family’s “The Osbournes Podcast.”

“We don’t need to give her any f–king anything,” Osbourne, 39, said of Rancic, 49, after her mom, Sharon Osbourne, mentioned the entertainment reporter.

Kelly’s brother, Jack Osbourne, and their father, Ozzy Osbourne, recalled the “Shut Up” singer being wrongly accused of making “a f–king racist comment” about Zendaya’s hair on the E! talk show in 2015 — when in reality Rancic was the one who had said the “Dune” star smelled “like patchouli oil and weed.”

Jack said he has not “seen anything from [Rancic] in a very long time,” to which Kelly replied that she “wouldn’t know because as far as I’m concerned, she doesn’t exist.”

Zendaya, 27, condemned Rancic’s comment at the time, sharing on Instagram that there “is already a harsh criticism of African-American hair in society without the help of ignorant people who choose to judge others based on the curl of their hair.”

Rancic faced an onslaught of backlash for the remark and issued a public apology to the “Challengers” star, admitting her words were “outrageously offensive.”

Amid the scandal, confusion swirled and Kelly was dragged into it despite not being the one to make the dig at Zendaya.

Kelly ended up leaving “Fashion Police” shortly after.

E! canceled the series in 2017.

Kelly and Rancic had co-hosted the fashion commentary show alongside late comedian Joan Rivers and magazine editor George Kotsiopoulos since its premiere in 2010.

Jack reflected on the ordeal, saying he had read a news article “where Zendaya was like, ‘Yeah, f–k Giuliana Rancic.’”

“Good for her,” Kelly cheered.

[From Page Six]

First of all, show your receipts, Jack Osbourne. “Yeah, f–k Giuliana Rancic” doesn’t sound at all like the professional woman Zendaya is, and I’m not finding any trace of it online. Don’t put words in Z’s mouth! As for the rest of it… gah why are they still talking about this?! And why are Jack and Ozzy saying Kelly got blamed? I was there (watching), and I don’t recall ever being confused about who made the comment (Giuliana). What else is there to say? Yes, it’s rich coming from Kelly, who went on to make a heinously racist remark on TV herself. And accepted an award from the Trevor Project in December 2016 where she told the LGBTQ audience to give Trump a chance. And got banned from playgrounds for getting into fights with other kids and parents. And was sued by her father’s mistress for doxxing her phone number in a tweet. So in conclusion, Giuliana is just joining a long list of people Kelly is either mad at or not talking to at all. Giuliana, meanwhile, is shilling a home line on HSN.

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