‘Today’ to air Giuliana Rancic’s ‘Police’ report
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, April 5, 2015, 2:30 AM
Jason Merritt/Getty ImagesE! host Giuliana Rancic will appear Monday on “Today” to tell her side of an Oscar red-carpet moment gone incorrect.
Giuliana Rancic has been vacant by E! execs to finally tell her side of the “Fashion Police” report and reveal what was going on behind the Zendaya scandal, Confidenti@l has exclusively learned.
The E! news host will appear on “Today” Monday morning, during both the 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. hours, after a week-long interview embargo imposed by People magazine is lifted.
Rancic’s first task is to address the backlash she faced after the incident, in which Rancic made a terrible joke about Zendaya’s Oscar dreads smelling of “weed.” That led to Kelly Osbourne and Kathy Griffin quitting the show.
“Honestly, she’s so pleased to be able to finally discuss what really happened behind the scenes with that Zendaya note,” one insider tells us. “It’s the first time she’ll be speaking about it. She wants to talk about how it was edited and how the joke was taken out of context.”
Our source adds that while Rancic has handled the evaluation like a pro, it’s been hard for her “to not shout from the rooftops” about what really went on.
“She wanted to wait for all the headlines to subside before getting the real report out there,” adds our source.
Steve Granitz/WireImageRancic criticized Zendaya’s dreads earlier this year at the Oscars.
Rancic, who has been resilient in production with breast cancer in 2011 and in facing recent comments about her weight, last week revealed more setbacks.
She told People that her surrogate suffered another miscarriage late last year. Rancic and supportive hubby Bill Rancic are now considering adoption because, Rancic says, she has no embryos left.
The 40-year-ancient also fought back against Twitter bullies who attacked her for her thin frame. Rancic says she’s underweight due to a cancer medication that impairs her metabolism.
Confidenti@l recently reported that E! honchos were considering pulling the plug on “Fashion Police” after the Zendaya incident.
The Disney actress immediately took to Instagram after the show, calling Rancic’s statement an “ignorant slur,” and things took a downward spiral from there.
After Griffin called it quits, saying she refused to bash other women with terribly written jokes about their looks, E! suspended the program in anticipation of September. The network said the show was “vacant on pause” to refresh and would restore with Rancic, co-host Brad Goreski and executive producer Melissa Rivers, although that remains to be seen.
ROSIE COULD LEAD LENA’S FAN CLUB
Rosie O’Donnell talked about Lena Dunham being an uber-feminist on “SiriusXM’s Town Hall with Michelangelo Signorile,” where she gushed, “God gave us Lena Dunham.” “I really feel she is the epithet … like the child or grandchild of Gloria Steinem,” O’Donnell said. “I look at her and it makes me tear up to see her promotion for women’s rights and … (how she) represents women issues on television in a realistic, contemporary way.” The interview airs on April 13 at 4 p.m. on Channel 127.
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BUSH LOVES ‘CHICAGO’ SCENE
Sophia BushandMariska Hargitaydid a Michigan Avenue magazine interview in which Bush revealed she at first didn’t want to go to Chicago for “Chicago P.D.” “Chicago’s so cold, it’s so far away. … I’m not vacant,” she told a friend. After being won over by producer Dick Wolf, Bush finds the Windy City is now one of her favorite haunts. “If I can’t be home in (L.A.), it’s one of the best places.”
STARRY PREVIEW
It was one pretty picture with Zoe Saldana, Taraji P. Henson, Kate Bosworth and Olivia Munn posing together at the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge launch in Los Angeles.
LUANN AND GUYS HAVE A REIGN DATE
LuAnn de Lesseps is on the West Coast promoting “The Real Housewives of New York,” and was blemished sipping rosé and nibbling dinner with Beverly Hills “Housewife” favorite Lisa Vanderpump at Vanderpump’s restaurant, Pump, a spy tells Confidenti@l. We hear that after her meal, de Lesseps went to have a nightcap at the standard gay bar The Abbey next door, where she caused a near riot. “She had fun taking selfies with her many fans,” our spy says. We hear she ate it up when the boys referred to her by her royal title, The Countess.
TAMBOR LOVES HIS WOMAN’S WORK
“Transparent” star Jeffrey Tamborhit the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Focal point’s annual dinner at Cipriani Wall Road, where he spoke to us about playing a woman. “It’s very, very exciting for a role like this to come along at my age,” he said. “The whole process was gorgeous. I had splendid consultants. Midseason we found the look. I kind of went through what Maura (his character) went through.”
FANS CALL TRAINOR A BASS HIT
She might be about the bass, but Meghan Trainor is not all about those backhanded compliments.
“I get, ‘Whoa, you’re so much skinnier than I plotting!’ And I’m like, ‘Uhh, thank you, I reckon?’ ” the “All About That Bass” singer told the Day after day News’ Nicole Lyn Pesce. “It’s weird. At my shows, especially, I’ll get, ‘Wow, you’re tiny,’ and it’s like, ‘Really, you plotting I was a lot larger?’ ”
The curvy crooner celebrated her new partnership with FullBeauty.com, a full-figure fashion site, with a performance at Guastavino’s in Manhattan.
Aggressive admirers make her uncomfortable. “I get a lot of weird Twitter comments,” she said, “Like, ‘Dat booty!’ and then they’ll say some … stuff … about your butt. Usually it’s splendid, like, ‘This is a healthy butt,’ but the weird comments, I’ll just scroll by.”
And some interviewers are awkward about the “Lips Are Movin’ ” singer’s shape. “When I walk into a radio rank or interview, and they’re like, ‘Yo, I’m gonna be honest: I tartan you OUT, up and down,’ it feels weird,” she said. “I go home like, uh-oh, everywhere I go, I need to know that everyone’s looking at my butt to see if I’m really all about the bass.”
ALBA ROLE HAS DEPTH
Jessica Alba and hubby Cash Warren are still madly in like, costs a recent day in the water at a Caribbean beach. The twosome (r.)played around while daughters Honor and Place of protection relaxed shore with pals.
GARNER FINDS AN ANIMATED FAN
Jennifer Garner treated her kids Sam and Seraphina to a fun afternoon at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Garner looked in a playful mood, clowning with Mickey Mouse, who gave her a kiss on the hand. Ben Affleck’s better half also hit Goofy’s Sky School and rode on Dumbo the Fleeting Elephant.
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Jennifer Garner hams it up with Mickey recently at Disneyland.
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Zoe Saldana (from l.), Taraji P. Henson, Kate Bosworth and Olivia Munn at the Samsung Galaxy S6 launch in L.A.
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MAZAR CAN BELIEVE IN MADG-IC
Debi Mazar admitted to Confidenti@l she’s still very good friends with Madonna. The “Entourage” and “Younger” actress (above), who came up with Madge in New York in the ’80’s, says “she inspires me. … We see each additional, we’re very old friends … she defies age and ageism.” Mazar adds, “You know her falling off the stage, her always being an artist and never caring what people reckon, is inspirational.
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Several of Robert De Niro’sfather’s paintings are prominently featured in the upcoming Nicholas Sparks movie adaptation, “The Longest Ride,” one movie insider tells us. The paintings, by now-deceased Robert De Niro Sr., an abstract expressionist, have a key role in the film for characters played by Scott Eastwood and Alan Alda, we’re told. “They bring the romantic couple, played by Eastwood and Britt Robertson, finally together,” reveals our source.
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