Lisa Rinna is unwatchable. Seeing her on the red carpet for TV Guide’s pre-SAG Awards show was like watching a car accident, and I couldn’t look away. She was sloppy and vapid at best. Her squeals of delight at her own self-musings and exclamations about her super unique! interview questions were unbearable. She branded every available celebrity with her “best friend” stamp, whether or not they agreed (or even recognized her). Her self-loving claims of being fashion forward were muted, if not negated, by the hideous leopard print, cleavage-baring tramp suit she was wearing. And it’s just embarrassing to look at her lips, period.
Her “interviewing” style leaves much to be desired. In fact, it’s not even accurate to call them interviews, as she never stops talking long enough to allow any kind of response. As a semi-interested viewer, I wanted to hear from celebrities, not Lisa Rinna. But no. She didn’t even let Casey Affleck speak during their exchange. When someone has to ask, “Do I get to talk?” in an interview, that should be some kind of red light, no? When Rinna did stop vomiting into the microphone briefly to let her interviewee speak, the person was either quickly interrupted by some “quirky” totally-off-the-topic anecdote from Lisa, or the space was filled with an extremely awkward pause, from which it was impossible to recover.
In the end, not only did she make the celebrities uncomfortable, she made me, the viewer, uncomfortable. Everything about her presence on the red carpet was cringe-worthy. Enough so that I started a blog just to write about the abortion that was Lisa Rinna On The Red Carpet.
Please TV Guide, when your viewers have to mute their TVs just to comfortably watch your programming, make some changes. Namely, never let Lisa Rinna host anything, ever again.
