Kelly Osbourne calls 2015 Fashion Police race row involving Giuliana Rancic and ... trends now

Kelly Osbourne calls 2015 Fashion Police race row involving Giuliana Rancic and ... trends now

Kelly Osbourne reflected on her abrupt departure from E!'s Fashion Police while taking aim at former co-host Giuliana Rancic — nine year after the racism scandal involving Rancic and Zendaya.

In February 2015, Rancic, 49, 'joked' that a then-18-year-old Zendaya 'looks like she smells like patchouli oil or weed' because she wore dreadlocks to the Oscars.

The episode, which featured Osbourne, Rancic, Kathy Griffin and George Kotsiopoulos, sparked major backlash with Zendaya herself publicly slamming Rancic's 'ignorant slurs and pure disrespect.'

Rancic insisted that her remarks 'had NOTHING to do with race' as she apologized for 'offending' Zendaya.

At the time, Osbourne was forced to shutdown rumors that she had also said the Zendaya 'joke' off-camera and, just weeks later, announced her exit from the show after five years.

During Tuesday's episode of The Osbournes Podcast, the influencer called the 2015 race row one of her 'biggest regrets' as she discussed the fallout with her family.

Kelly Osbourne reflected on her abrupt departure from E!'s Fashion Police while taking aim at former co-host Giuliana Rancic ¿ nine year after the racism scandal involving Rancic and Zendaya

Kelly Osbourne reflected on her abrupt departure from E!'s Fashion Police while taking aim at former co-host Giuliana Rancic — nine year after the racism scandal involving Rancic and Zendaya 

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She admitted that Fashion Police was 'the best job I've ever had' when she was working under the late Joan Rivers, who hosted with Osbourne and other panelists from the show's 2010 premiere until her death in September 2014 at age 81.

The comedian's daughter Melissa Rivers, 56, served as executive producer until the show's 2017 cancellation.

Kelly told mom Sharon Osbourne, 71, that it was 'the closest thing that I had to working with my mom.'

But at Sharon's mention of her time with Rancic, Kelly fired back: 'We don't need to give her any f*****g anything.'

Kelly's brother Jack Osbourne, 38, then rehashed the Giuliana/Zendaya scandal for listeners.

'One of the co-hosts of the show made a really kind of a f*****g racist comment about her hair, and nothing happened to the woman that that made the comment,' Jack explained, in reference in Rancic.

'And then Kelly kind of took the stand of, like, "That's f****d up. I don't wanna work with someone like that."'

'And then it somehow got turned around that Kelly said the comment, but Kelly didn't say the comment,' Jack concluded.

In February 2015, Rancic, 49, 'joked' that a then-18-year-old Zendaya 'looks like she smells like patchouli oil or weed' because she wore dreadlocks to the Oscars

In February 2015, Rancic, 49, 'joked' that a then-18-year-old Zendaya 'looks like she smells like patchouli oil or weed' because she wore dreadlocks to the Oscars 

The episode, which featured Osbourne, Rancic, Kathy Griffin and George Kotsiopoulos, sparked major backlash with Zendaya herself publicly slamming Rancic's 'ignorant slurs and pure disrespect'; Zendaya seen at the 2015 Oscars

The episode, which featured Osbourne, Rancic, Kathy Griffin and George Kotsiopoulos, sparked major backlash with Zendaya herself publicly slamming Rancic's

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