The REAL Reason Kelly’s Leaving E!

For those of you not keeping track (or who simply don’t care) it’s been widely reported that Kelly Osbourne quit E!‘s Fashion Police because Giuliana Rancic said that Zendaya looked like she smelled of patchouli oil and weed because of her dreadlocks.  First, the “joke” – Giuliana didn’t come up with it; it was scripted for her by the writers.  Did anyone think to ask what the hell Zendaya was doing at the Oscars anyway?  But that’s all beside the point. I can tell you exclusively that Kelly only returned to Fashion Police this season because she was contractually obligated to.  I hear that when Kathy Griffin got the gig, she wanted a clean slate and new people.  E! was obliged to use Kelly and Giuliana, but both knew that they weren’t really welcomed.  Adding insult to injury, the raise Kelly was promised didn’t happen, allegedly due to the money E! was spending on Kathy.  Osbourne let it be known that she was thinking of quitting, and E! let her know that she was more than welcomed to – but she couldn’t do any other television for the length of her contract.  It was all very ugly.  The one person who stood up for Kelly was Melissa Rivers.  As executive producer, Missy fought for Kelly to stay – primarily because Joan Rivers looked to Kelly as a protégé (kinda like the daughter she never had).  She cajoled Kelly to make the best of it.  But from the beginning, the chemistry wasn’t there – on camera or off.  Even worse, the ratings were down roughly 25 percent from last year.  So this whole Zendaya thing is all just a convenient excuse for Kelly to leave.

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