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Giuliana Rancic Revealed The Rudest Celebrity She’s Ever Met

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Giuliana Rancic finally named the one celebrity encounter she still can’t shake.

After two decades of red carpet questions, award-show mayhem, and thousands of thirty-second interviews with the biggest names in Hollywood, Giuliana Rancic has a story she still brings up. Speaking on the “Pretty Messed Up” podcast, the longtime E! News anchor was asked point-blank who the rudest celebrity she’s ever interviewed was — and she didn’t dodge the question. She went straight to Russell Crowe.

• Rancic named Russell Crowe as the rudest celebrity she’s ever interviewed during her appearance on the “Pretty Messed Up” podcast.
• She said the encounter took place at Crowe’s hotel while she was working an assignment for E! News, and that he asked her to leave so he could watch a rugby game.
• Rancic spent two decades covering red carpets and award shows for E! News before stepping back from red-carpet duty in May 2021.

Two Decades of Red Carpets

Rancic didn’t just show up for one big premiere and call it a career. She built her name doing the unglamorous math of entertainment journalism — the Golden Globes, the Oscars, the Grammys, the endless junket rooms — year after year, for roughly twenty years, before she scaled back her red-carpet workload in May 2021. That kind of run means thousands of interviews, which also means thousands of chances for something to go sideways. Most of those encounters, by her own account, were fine. A few weren’t.

The Russell Crowe Story

According to Rancic, the incident happened years earlier when she still had an interview booked with Crowe at his hotel. She said she’d traveled to get there, only for Crowe to seem checked out from the start — dismissive, uninterested, and eventually asking her to wrap it up so he could watch a rugby game. She called the whole exchange “terrible” and said it’s stuck with her long after the tape stopped rolling.

Rancic described the Crowe encounter as “terrible” — an experience she says she still hasn’t forgotten, even years and countless interviews later.

Rancic was careful to frame it as her own experience rather than a verdict on Crowe’s character across the board — plenty of other reporters have had entirely different interactions with him. But she made clear that, given how much notice and travel went into setting up that particular sit-down, being told to hurry up so he could catch a game stung in a way that stayed with her.

A Familiar Story on the Junket Circuit

Rancic’s story isn’t an isolated genre. Entertainment reporters have long traded stories about stars who go cold the second the camera light turns off, and outlets have built entire retrospectives cataloguing movie stars who treat their fans like trash. What made Rancic’s account land was the specificity — a named A-lister, a named event (a rugby match, not some vague scheduling conflict), and a reporter with two decades of red-carpet credibility putting her name behind it rather than leaving it as an anonymous industry rumor.

It also fits a broader pattern of celebrities getting called out publicly for how they’ve treated the people asking the questions, a dynamic that’s produced its own highlight reel of reporters and hosts shutting down disrespectful interviewers when the tables turn. Rancic’s version is quieter — no on-camera showdown, just a candid podcast answer years after the fact — but it carries the same underlying message: the interview clock runs both ways, and stars who treat it as optional get remembered for it.

Crowe hadn’t responded to Rancic’s comments, and there’s no indication he was asked to. For now, it’s her story, told her way, on a podcast — one hotel room, one rugby game, and one E! News correspondent who apparently never got her full sit-down.