Jenny McCarthy Grossly Disrespects Tara Reid During ‘Sharknado 4’ Interview: ‘Good Luck With Sharknado 18!’
An Sirius XM interview to promote the upcoming Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens quickly turned into a battle of the blondes when former Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy rudely and repeatedly belittled actress Tara Reid.
Things seemed to start in a negative place from the very beginning of the interview, according to People, when McCarthy, who hosts The Jenny McCarthy Show daily via the satellite radio station, expressed that she was a huge fan of Reid’s appearance on the current season of Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars.
“I f***ing love you on that show,” McCarthy stated, “but are you glad you did it?”
Understandably, the American Pie star wasn’t too keen on sharing the details of her televised marital problems with Bulgarian financier, Zachary Kehayov.
“It’s not worth the time to talk about,” Reid answered. “There’s confusing things about it. We are not talking about it.”
When Jenny pushed Tara to answer the question anyway, the first signs of trouble started to be displayed.
“Babe, I asked you, please let’s not talk about [Marriage Boot Camp],” Reid insisted. “We’re all here about Sharknado.”
Momentarily respecting Tara’s wishes, McCarthy began to inquire about the fourth offering of the popular Syfy franchise; but instead of asking what it was like to work on the film, Jenny got a little too personal, choosing to ask questions about Reid’s exercise habits in order to prepare for her Sharknado 4 inclusion.
“It’s not like you really need to get into shape,” Tara answered frustratingly. “It’s Sharknado. It’s, like, fake sharks [we’re running from]. They’re rubber.”
Things between the ladies eased momentarily, before Jenny started questioning Reid on her infamous plastic surgery issues, including her multiple breast augmentations and tummy tuck procedures.
“Are you still going through surgeries, or are you past them,” McCarthy asked.
“No, I haven’t had any surgery for awhile, Jenny,” Tara responded.
While attempting to praise her for her candidness regarding going under the knife, Reid literally looked for a way out of the line of questioning by speaking to a minder of hers in the background.“Hi, Tara,” Jenny farcically expressed.
“I’m here,” Reid answered.
“Okay, good, because you were talking to someone else,” she replied with obvious snark. “So, you’re not moving forward with plastic surgery?”
Clearly annoyed, Tara reached her breaking point.
“I think I’ve made that clear, like, about 100 times,” she answered.
“Well,” McCarthy interrupted, “I didn’t hear that 100 times.”
“Maybe that’s because you only read the bad things,” Tara fired back, “but I made that really clear [for] so many years, but read what you want to read.”
Before another invasive question could be asked of her, Tara wisely and politely shut Jenny’s inquisition down.
“It was really nice talking to you,” she uttered, “and really, good luck with your show.”
It was then that the former panelist of The View reached a peak of impoliteness that no one saw coming.
“Well, good luck to you, too! I’m so excited about Sharknado, and I hope you stay married.”
“Well, I hope you stay married [to New Kids on The Block singer Donnie Wahlberg],” Reid shot back.
“I will, and I hope your knees get a little wobblier than they already are,” McCarthy said.
“I hope your t**s get even nicer,” Reid countered back, reminding Jenny of her own past plastic surgeries, “because they’re amazing. [They were done by] the same guy who did mine, right?”
As Tara exited the studio, the immature hostess took one last dig at her.
“Love you, Tara! Good luck with Sharknado 18!’
As rumors about the sit down being staged began to make waves, Reid reached out to TMZ to confirm that it was in fact real, and that McCarthy hadn’t apologized to her. Jenny, meanwhile, promoted the chat on her Twitter with the same amount of discontent and discord that she had during her conversation with Tara.
Tune in for replay of @TheJennyMShow to hear why the only show we might ever be on together in the future will be Botched. Ch 109 8 pm EST
— Jenny McC-Wahlberg (@JennyMcCarthy) July 15, 2016
No word on if Jenny will be reprimanded for her actions. Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens, which also features David Hasselhoff and Gilbert Gottfried, premieres on July 31 on Syfy. Feel free to check out the trailer here.
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