Want to know what happened to Giuliana Rancic? Entertainment reporter and television personality Giuliana Rancic has been the co-anchor of E! News for a while now. After being the anchor for E! News for almost twenty decades, Rancic stepped down to concentrate on other big ventures. Giuliana Rancic also has her clothing brand, G by Giuliana.
Rancic and her husband have also opened up a restaurant named RPM Italian, the menu also has a few special items that are inspired by Rancic’s mother’s recipes. As the television personality battled breast cancer, she went on to spread more awareness as she founded Fab-U-Wish which is a charity that aims to grant wishes to women who are going through breast cancer treatment. Let us find out what happened to Giuliana Rancic.
What happened to Giuliana Rancic?
In 2021, Giuliana Rancic stepped down after two decades as the host of E! Red Carpet coverage! The popular television host further announced that she has signed a development deal with NBCUniversal while implying that there would be several promising projects to come in near future.
While talking about it, Rancic explained how one of her passions is great storytelling and she is thrilled to announce a brand new development deal with E!’s parent company NBC Universal as she will be producing and bringing stories to life.
Earlier in an interview, the host admitted that she is looking forward to more flexibility in life while having that flexibility to give 100 per cent to their restaurants and other businesses and also to doing things that she is passionate about. The television personality battled breast cancer in 2011 and stated how her biggest self-discovery after cancer and treatment was realizing that she was stronger than he had thought she is.
While the host did give the above explanation as the reason behind her departure from E!, many speculated whether it had something to do with the controversy involving her and Zendaya where she seemingly said something inappropriate about the actress.
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What did Giuliana Rancic say about Zendaya?
The popular television host got into a huge controversy in a 2015 scandal where she said downing about Zendaya. While the Spider-Man actress was just 18 at that time, Rancic stared that Zendaya’s dreadlock hair look at the Oscars seemingly smelled of “patchouli” and “weed”!
Zendaya later took to social media to express her discontent over the remark saying how there is a fine line between what is funny and disrespectful while further pointing out how someone said something about her hair at the Oscars that left her in awe. Zendaya went on to say how she was in awe not because she was relishing in rave outfit reviews, but because she was hit with ignorant slurs and pure disrespect.
Not only the actress herself but the host received major backlash from others as well. While Rancic soon apologised for her remarks, it was termed racist by many. Rancic issues a statement saying how this incident has taught her to be a lot more aware of cliches and stereotypes also noting how much damage they can do.
Is Giuliana Rancic married?
Giuliana Rancic is married to Bill Rancic. Giuliana and Bill crossed paths back in 2004 after Bill starred and won the first season of The Apprentice. The former Live from the Red Carpet star admitted that she told obsessed” with the reality TV series, and especially Bill. Giuliana had a fan girl moment and was blown away when crossed paths with Bill at an event.
Television star Giuliana has further recalled how her ex-boyfriend almost set the two up when they met at an event back in 2004. Bill also said something similar saying how he knew their things were moving faster than he had ever done in his entire life before.