About ten years ago, the show “the Osbournes” became a surprise hit reality show and unleashed Ozzy’s foul-mouthed teenaged daughter Kelly upon the world. Back then, Kelly worked the same uber-black goth kid look that Adam Lambert has monopolized today: all black clothes, dyed black hair, buckets of black eye-liner and dark make-up.
Well, last night I’m watching Joan Rivers’ “Fashion Police” show and couldn’t help thinking what the hell happened to her? All prim, poised, and daintily dressed up in a good little, virgin finishing school-girl outfit. She’s like some reverse “dark mirror” universe version of Kelly Osbourne.
Kelly spent most of the show gaping in shocked horror at Joan Rivers’ foul mouthed one-liners. Joan would say “pussy!” and they’d cut to a reaction shot of Kelly, eyes goggling out and exclaiming “Oh! My! God!” in utter disbelief. For Chrissake! Your parents are Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne! Your father once chewed the head off a bird and spit it out at a camera! Nothing Joan Rivers has ever said is any lewder or more foul than the language YOU YOURSELF used as a teenager on your reality show. How the hell can you be so shocked???
But perhaps the personality change is a side-effect from having encephalitis. She looked like a freakin’ bobble-head doll, with that enormous head (and big hair to boot) on that shrunken little body of hers.
Granted that everybody goes through a teenaged rebellion phase, and tries on a “shocking” identity that they later grow out of. But Kelly seems like she regressed backward into the “widdle pwincess” stage, rather than growing up. “I’m a lady now!” she exclaimed at one point. Sorry, Kelly, but you acting as a delicate wallflower looks about as fake & ill-fitting as Joan Rivers’ face.
I think her saying Mila Kunis’ gorgeous red print chiffon gown at the SAG awards “looked like a (tee hee!) used tampon” was totally gross and uncalled for!.. I think since she’s supposedly clean and sober and is now 27 she wants to get a career of some kind started that has no connection with her parents. In movies or doing a TV show. I certainly hope step one is to get rid of those hideous tattoes on her arms.
I can’t accurately recite her timeline, but I know it’s been a couple years since she completed what I assume (and hope) will be her final stint in rehab. She shortly afterward lost a lot of weight and seems to have generally gotten her act together.
Her look is no longer news to me and I’m a regular watcher of “Fashion Police” so I guess I’m used to the new her. I’m actually pretty impressed by both her carriage and her usually thoughtful observations. I think her reaction to Joan’s comments (jeez, someone put that bitch out of our misery already) mirrored my own, and I’m far from a dainty pwincess. Sometimes, nee most times, Ms. Rivers is just a mean, foul mouthed pig, devoid of anything resembling humor.
Do you recall which comments evoked Kelly’s shocked response? I honestly don’t, but I remember thinking they were pretty tasteless, even for Joan Rivers.
The National Lampoon described her perfectly many years ago as “someone who has managed to have a career in comedy without ever saying anything funny - she just talks loud.”
I suppose if you find obnoxious Yentas the most hilarious beings on the planet, Joan Rivers is your goddess. Her male equal is not Don Rickles, its Michael Musto.
What I’ve read is that once she got clean she decided not to be an alcohilic drug-addict who didn’t give a shit about her looks. Now she cares about her appearance. And I agree with the OP anyone who cares about their appearance should be mocked. :rolleyes:
She basically has the same reaction to EVERY joke Joan makes. Her faked “I can’t believe she said that!!” reaction and the forced laughter by the other hosts are pretty painful.
That said, she looks a lot better than I would have ever thought she could and seems like a sweet girl.
Actually, I find the fake, uncomfortable laughter of the other panelists far more offputting than Kelly’s reactions. Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t notice her do it every time. The times I did notice I had the same reaction as she. My point being that I don’t get the feeling she’s feigning gentility; I think she’s as genuinely surprised / disgusted by the classless scumbag Joan Rivers has become as I. Remember when she was self deprecating and had some boundaries? It’s not that Kelly hasn’t heard / used some pretty vile language herself in the past, it’s that many times Joan just goes beyond the pale, IMO.
Oh, I agree. I’m surprised Joan gets away with a lot of the quasi-racist jokes especially. But I don’t buy that Kelly is genuinely so shocked every time. It’s a weekly show and Joan drops quite a few off-color remarks per show.
After a while it’s got to be :rolleyes: “Oh, that Joan” instead of :eek: “I can’t believe my ears!!!”
It must be tough for Kelly to live down the Obournes show. She had some epic meltdowns. We know now that drugs played a part in that. There was one scary episode in S2 or S3 when Kelly and Jack got into a bad fight at the house when they were alone. It could have gotten very physical. They both were totally out of control.
It is great seeing Kelly drug free and healthy. Jack lost a lot of weight too. Is he still doing that extreme sports show?
Kelly did Dancing with the Stars and won a lot of people’s hearts (including mine) with her commitment and attitude. She made it to the final four, IIRC.
Her second album Sleeping In The Nothing was actually pretty great (the first single ‘One Word’ is one of my favourite songs of the last decade) and nobody would give it a chance because of who she is and how badly received her first album was (of course on the other hand without her being who she is it never would have been recorded in the first place). I’m glad she’s finding a career where she won’t be constantly connected to her parents… I do wish she’d do another record though, just to see if the good one was a fluke or not.