Before serving up her legendary red carpet style roasts onFashion Police,Joan Riversused to kickstart her morning with a little something extra in her coffee cup.
WhenMargaret Cho, 52, appears on this week’s episode of thePEOPLE in the ‘90spodcast (out now) she recalls working with the late comedian on the hit E! show.
“We would get in at like 4 in the morning and she would already be there,” Cho says of Rivers, explaining the “really weird” hours they would film to cover the previous evening’s award show.
While everyone else would be sipping on coffee for a jolt of caffeine, Rivers’ approach was a little bit different, Cho says. “Sometimes what she would do is she would take her giant Starbucks cup and then empty it, and fill it with Chardonnay. And just drink her Chardonnay out of her Starbucks cup, which I thought was genius.”
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Filming each episode ofFashion Policetook quite some time, but once they wrapped the co-hosts loved to stick around and chat with Rivers. “We would just talk about how she was part of British Hollywood. Edgar [Rosenberg], her late husband, was British and he was a producer,” Cho tells podcast hosts Jason Sheeler and Andrea Lavinthal. “They would have Laurence Olivier over for dinner and so she had all of the old stars over her house. She would host these parties that would just get crazy.”
Looking back at her experience onFashion Police, Cho describes working alongside Rivers, whodied at age 81 in 2014, as some of her “favorite times.”
“She loved doingFashion Policeand she was really excited about it. I think she was really influential on social media because it made the bridge between show business and real people possible,” Cho says.
After Rivers' time on the show, Cho remembers how everything changed about the way they covered the red carpet after co-hostGiuliana Rancicfaced backlash formaking an offensive remark about Zendaya’s dreadlocks at the 2015 Oscars.
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At the time, Rancic joked on air that the traditional African hairstyle that Zendaya wore tothe Oscarsmade her look like she “smells like patchouli oil or weed.”
Shortly after the episode aired, Zendayaresponded to the television host on Instagram. “There is a fine line between what is funny and disrespectful,” shewrote. “Someone said something about my hair atthe Oscarsthat left me in awe. Not because I was relishing in rave outfit reviews, but because I was hit with ignorant slurs and pure disrespect.”
Continued Zendaya, “To say that an 18-year-old young woman with locs must smell of patchouli oil or ‘weed’ is not only a large stereotype but outrageously offensive. I don’t usually feel the need to respond to negative things but certain remarks cannot go unchecked.”
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source: people.com
