{"id":769,"date":"2015-03-02T01:34:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=769"},"modified":"2015-03-02T01:37:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:37:58","slug":"the-real-reason-kellys-leaving-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/the-real-reason-kellys-leaving-e\/","title":{"rendered":"The REAL Reason Kelly&#8217;s Leaving E!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you not keeping track (or who simply don&#8217;t care) it&#8217;s been widely reported that <strong>Kelly Osbourne <\/strong>quit <em>E!<\/em>&#8216;s <strong><em>Fashion Police<\/em><\/strong> because <strong>Giuliana Rancic <\/strong>said that Zendaya looked like she smelled of patchouli oil and weed because of her dreadlocks.\u00a0 First, the &#8220;joke&#8221; &#8211; Giuliana didn&#8217;t come up with it; it was scripted for her by the writers.\u00a0 Did anyone think to ask what the hell Zendaya was doing at the <strong><em>Oscars <\/em><\/strong>anyway?\u00a0 But that&#8217;s all beside the point. I\u00a0can tell you exclusively that Kelly only returned to <em>Fashion Police<\/em> this season because she was contractually obligated to.\u00a0 I hear that when <strong>Kathy Griffin <\/strong>got the gig, she wanted a clean slate and new people. \u00a0<em>E! <\/em>was obliged to use Kelly and Giuliana, but both knew that they weren&#8217;t really welcomed.\u00a0 Adding insult to injury, the raise Kelly was promised didn&#8217;t happen, allegedly due to the money <em>E! <\/em>was spending on Kathy.\u00a0 Osbourne let it be known that she was thinking of quitting, and <em>E! <\/em>let her know that she was more than welcomed to &#8211; but she couldn&#8217;t do any other television for the length of her contract.\u00a0 It was all very ugly.\u00a0 The one person who stood up for Kelly was <strong>Melissa Rivers<\/strong>.\u00a0 As executive producer, Missy fought for Kelly to stay &#8211; primarily because <strong>Joan Rivers <\/strong>looked to Kelly as a <em>prot\u00e9g\u00e9 <\/em>(kinda like the daughter she never had).\u00a0 She cajoled Kelly to make the best of it.\u00a0 But from the beginning, the chemistry wasn&#8217;t there &#8211; on camera or off.\u00a0 Even worse, the ratings were down roughly 25 percent from last year.\u00a0 So this whole Zendaya thing is all just a convenient excuse for Kelly to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you not keeping track (or who simply don&#8217;t care) it&#8217;s been widely reported that Kelly Osbourne quit E!&#8216;s Fashion Police because Giuliana Rancic said that Zendaya looked like she smelled of patchouli oil and weed because of her dreadlocks.\u00a0 First, the &#8220;joke&#8221; &#8211; Giuliana didn&#8217;t come up with it; it was scripted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}