Giuliana Rancic has spent plenty of time with Hollywood's biggest celebrities.
She’s interviewed everyone from A-list movie legends to reality television personalities
to Tik Tok's most viral stars.
The former entertainment news guru has known every inner detail of Hollywood for over two
decades, so it's only natural that Giuliana developed negative feelings towards at least
one celeb during all that time.
The journalist is most well-known for her tenure on "E! News," where she started as
a correspondent before becoming a co-host of the popular entertainment and celebrity
news show in 2005.
Rancic then left the news program in 2015, only to make a thrilling return in 2018 with
her friend Jason Kennedy as co-host.
While many recognize Giuliana as the face of E! News, the host became a celebrity in
her own right from her reality series with husband Bill Rancic, appropriately titled
"Giuliana and Bill," which ran from 2009 to 2014.
The show chronicled the couple's bi-coastal lifestyle in Los Angeles and Chicago as they
grew their family and ran joint businesses.
There is a stain on Giuliana's career, however, which happened in 2015 when the E! host came
under fire for comments she made on the show "Fashion Police" about actor and singer Zendaya's
Academy Awards hairstyle.
"I want to say to Zendaya, and anyone else out there that I have hurt, that I am so,
so sincerely sorry."
The moment seemed to be the beginning of the end for the celebrity fashion show, which
was cancelled just two years later.
While Giuliana's controversial and racially insensitive remark may have caused a rift
between her and Zendaya, it was Giuliana's run-in with a different celeb — at the height
of her career as co-host of "E! Live From The Red Carpet" — that left a mark of another
kind.
Back in 2014, Giuliana Rancic revealed the one celeb she met that was, quote, "a little
bit of a diva."
In a conversation on the E! Network, Giuliana recalled the day she met Ariana Grande at
the American Music Awards.
As Rancic explained it, the animosity began when the young singing superstar stepped up
on the red carpet interview platform, and stood on the side of the camera usually reserved
for Guiliana herself.
Rancic explained that she'd chosen that position specifically because it was her, quote, “good
side" and that she'd fought to keep it for 13 years of hosting and interviewing.
Then, suddenly, Grande was pushing her away from it.
"Little Ariana comes over, I feel like 'bing,' elbow in my side, I'm like, 'What's going
on?' and they push me to the other side."
The E! celeb went on to claim she had to either stand with her, quote, "ugly side" facing
the camera or not do the interview.
Rancic also conceded that, had the interview been with a legend like Mariah Carey, she
might have stood wherever she had to in order to get the job done.
That wasn't how she felt about Grande, who Rancic didn't consider famous enough at the
time to make such demands of her.
As Rancic said:
"But when you're new on the block, when you're trying to earn your stripes, you do what you
gotta do."
As Giuliana's comments made their way through the tabloids, Grande responded to the rumors
of her, quote, "diva" behavior with Rancic and in other encounters during an interview
with Australian radio show "Mike E and Emma."
She said:
"I'm just like, you know what, that's not real, that's nonsense, my fans know who I
am, my family knows who I am, my friends know who I am and that's all that matters."
Though she had a bad run-in with Ariana Grande, not all encounters were negative.
In fact, working at E! News was especially beneficial in one way for Giuliana Rancic
... and we're not talking about her salary.
The journalist met her husband of over a decade, Bill Rancic, back in the early 2000s thanks
to her E! News job.
Fans will remember Giuliana's first interview with Bill, in which they weren't yet dating
but were very much flirting with each other.
Giuliana asked him all about his romantic life and Bill repeatedly hinted that they
should get together.
Their chemistry was palpable.
The couple went on to wed in 2007 and welcomed their son Duke in 2012 via surrogate.
It's probably safe to say that the host definitely holds that interview in higher regard than
the one she had with Ariana.
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