E! Entertainment (DStv 124) censored a naked Giuliana Rancic Friday night on E! News on the channel's daily news broadcast with a big black block covering her body and the words "censored" over it, when the E! News co-host went au naturel following a dare from comedienne Joan Rivers who's celebrating her 80th birthday on E! this week.
Giuliana Rancic who wasn't really naked but hammed it up for a comedy sketch towards the end of the E! News broadcast shown on Friday night on DStv in South Africa, took her cue from Joan Rivers who gave Giuliana Rancic some unsoliticed wardrobe advice.
"I've seen nuns looking sexier," Joan Rivers told Giuliana Rancic about her wardrobe on E! News. "This is 2013, Giuliana, 2013! It's a whole different world. People want you to look a little trampy when you present the news," said Joan Rivers. "Two words. You want ratings? Naked news."
E! News then blacked out Giuliana Rancic's body next to co-presenter Jason Kennedy. "The network stuck this censored thing before me," said Giuliana Rancic.
The "censored" joke on E! News and E! Entertainment is highly ironic within the context of E! Entertainment as it's seen on MultiChoice's DStv platform in South Africa and across Africa where E! Entertainment it is in reality, the most censored and visually lobotimised TV channel out of the entire DStv bouquet.
E! News' editorial news content is constantly censored through blurring, blocking and muting in every episode, diminishing and tarnishing the editorial integrity and relevance of the show supposed to be about news from the popular culture sphere.
The ongoing blurring, bleeping, blacking, muting and censorship on E! Entertainment is highly distracting and idiosyncraticlly non-sensical. In January E! Entertainment explained to TV with Thinus somewhat why.
Adding insult to injury is E! Entertainment's insane approach of censoring the news but broadcasting unvarnished to its mostly female skewed TV audience expletive and cuss laced trash such as the low-class reality show Playing with Fire filled with swearing and filthy language - none of which are censored but are supposed to, instead of something like E! News.
