If you thought the annoying fire that all but consumed E!’s Fashion Police had finally been put out, you were sadly mistaken. Slide down the this again? pole, hop on the who cares? truck, and the unleash your enough already hose, because Melissa Rivers just poured a big tank of gasoline—and tossed a highly flammable Kathy Griffin—onto its smoldering coals.
Talking to Hoda Kotb about Griffin’s Fashion Police departure at the 92nd Street Y, Rivers let loose:
“My biggest complaint was the feeling that she kind of shit all over my mother’s legacy in her statement on leaving. And I know that was not an intentional reading of it, but that’s how I felt… by calling the comedy and the style of it old-fashioned. It was like, I understand what you were doing, you’re trying to save yourself, but don’t crap all over my mother to do it.”
Griffin, you may recall, released a statement upon leaving the show, claiming, among other things, that she disapproved of the way that Fashion Police would mock celebrities’ bodies and that “that [her] style does not fit with the creative direction of the show.” (The real reason for her departure might be a little less laudable.)
“I’m just gonna say it wasn’t a match on a lot of levels,” Rivers told Kotb, also saying that Fashion Police will return to airwaves:
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