Kelly Osbourne slams rumors she's quitting Fashion Police
Kelly Osbourne has slammed rumors suggesting she's keen to end her run as a host of TV series Fashion Police following the death of co-star Joan Rivers.
The reality TV star shared the screen with the beloved comedienne, her "second mom", on the style commentary show for years until Rivers' death in September (14), and speculation has since surfaced that she was refusing to return to the show without Rivers by her side - especially if producers replaced her with another funnywoman.
But Osbourne fired back at the reports during a visit to Queen
Latifah's talk show on Monday (13Oct14), insisting the gossip is
false, and said, "I am going back to Fashion Police."
She added, "That was completely made up and so disrespectful to
ever say that. That's my decision. I am going back and no one is
replacing Joan. I don't even think a discussion has happened yet
about any specific person at all. All we know is that the show is
going to have a lot of similarities but it's going to be a new form
of Fashion Police."
Osbourne added that she's still having a difficult time dealing
with her friend's passing, but she'll forever keep Rivers' advice
close to her heart.
She confessed, "To be honest with you, I'd be lying if I said we
were good. Because loss takes a long time to deal with. People
don't realize that we spent 52 weeks (a year) with each other for
the last four and a half years, going on five.
"To wake up everyday and have one of the biggest parts of your life
not there... I'm still doing those things where I'm like, 'Oh, I
gotta tell Joan! Oh, never mind' - and then you find yourself with
loads of tears.
"The one thing I can always take away is what Joan taught me, and
that is that we are so lucky. We have a job and it's amazing."