Add Page Six on Google Melissa Rivers dished on once being confronted by an A-lister over her “Fashion Police” comments.
“I’ve had a big actress confront me at a party,” the 58-year-old, who co-hosted the E! show from 2015 to 2017 with her late mom, Joan Rivers, revealed to “McBride Rewind” podcast listeners Tuesday.
“I [was] just like, ‘I didn’t like your dress,'” Melissa recalled without elaborating on the celebrity’s identity.
Melissa’s rep did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Joan’s daughter confessed there was a “painful list” of high-profile people she and Joan offended over the years — and called out “one person who came after” her only to listen to her critique.
“The next show or the next year, she showed up with a new stylist, looking great, different hair color and had clearly had a facelift,” Melissa recalled.
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Elsewhere in the episode, she described an awkward encounter with a star on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City on the heels of an awards show.
“We had just filmed ‘Fashion Police’ because we would film really early in the morning,” she remembered.
“An actress got on the plane that we knew we had said that we didn’t like [her outfit],” Melissa continued. “We knew her. Hugs, chatting. She and my mom were reading the same book, and we’re sitting there going, ‘Oh s–t tonight she’s going to find out what we said about her dress.’”
Melissa stuck by her comments on the show — even defending Giuliana Rancic’s viral remarks about Zendaya in 2015 — and said the series was “built for entertainment” and “built to be funny.”
She explained, “Don’t tell me that you don’t do the same thing talking to your friends. Tell me one person who wasn’t sitting on their couch or looking through pictures and all the time on Instagram and things like that. Now you go like, ‘Ew, I don’t like that.’ You’ll say it to your friends.
“Everyone sits — to this day — and watches the shows and goes, ‘Oh my god, that’s amazing’ or ‘Oh my god, that’s horrible,'” Melissa continued. “The difference was we did it out loud.”
While “Fashion Police” has been over for nearly a decade, Melissa has continued critiquing fashion, even sharing her Met Gala hot takes with Page Six Radio last year.
Earlier this month, she told us miniskirts are her “biggest fashion ick.”
Melissa explained, “People who look uncomfortable in their clothes… and when you are sitting in a miniskirt or a minidress that literally your butt is going to be touching the chair. You’re like, ‘Wow, she’s got legs!‘… And then you’re like, ‘Oh f—k, she has to sit down.’”
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