{"id":1540185,"date":"2022-07-05T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540185"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:49:21","slug":"chelsea-handler-says-she-wanted-to-call-melania-trump-a-prostitute-during-her-kimmel-hosting-gig-but-wasnt-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chelsea-handler-says-she-wanted-to-call-melania-trump-a-prostitute-during-her-kimmel-hosting-gig-but-wasnt-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Handler Says She Wanted To \u2018Call\u2019 Melania Trump A \u2018Prostitute\u2019 During Her Kimmel Hosting Gig, But Wasn\u2019t Allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchelsea-handler-says-she-wanted-to-call-melania-trump-a-prostitute-during-her-kimmel-hosting-gig-but-wasnt-allowed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540185&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Comedian Chelsea Handler said she wanted to \u201ccall\u201d former first lady Melania Trump a \u201cprostitute\u201d during her recent hosting gig on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live,\u201d but wasn\u2019t allowed to for fear of the network being sued.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chelsea-handler-has-a-lot-of-definitions-for-pro-life-none-involve-protecting-babies\">47-year-old<\/a> comedian talked about her recent stint as a host of the ABC late-night show and said\u00a0she was surprised by how much freedom she had to say what she wanted during her hosting gig. However, she admitted she did get some pushback when she wanted to call Melania a \u201cprostitute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were going to call her a prostitute and then they said, \u2018No, she\u2019s sued people for calling her a prostitute,\u2019\u201d Handler told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/chelsea-handler-late-night-show-1235307810\/\">Variety<\/a> magazine in a recent article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018But technically she is a prostitute, so why can\u2019t we say that?\u2019\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Handler said she had \u201cnever wanted to be on network television because they would never let me do my thing,\u201d but was basically able to do \u201cwhatever\u201d she wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I have to say, this week on \u2018Jimmy Kimmel,\u2019 I did basically whatever I wanted and it was received so well,\u201d the performer shared. \u201cThe amount of attention and messages I\u2019ve gotten, it really feels like coming home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the show last week, the \u201cChelsea Lately\u201d star said that during the ongoing January 6 Committee hearings, \u201cwe also got a glimpse at Melania\u2019s awfulness.\u201d The entire bit can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pgGEwldM8js\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cThis Means War\u201d star was also later asked in the Variety interview about comments she previously made about the former first lady during an interview she gave in 2017 at Sundance Film Festival, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chelsea-handler-trashes-immigrant-melania-trump-amanda-prestigiacomo?jwsource=cl\">The Daily Wire<\/a> previously reported. At the time, the former talk show host was asked if she would ever want to interview Melania, to which Handler replied that the former first lady \u201ccan barely speak English.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The interviewer noted how the comments got a lot of \u201cbacklash, but honestly, that\u2019s one of the more tame things you\u2019ve said in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. And well, I also think Melania has proven herself to deserve that kind of retribution,\u201d the former talk show host replied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chelsea-handler-claims-joe-rogans-radicalizing-men-attacks-justice-thomas-while-guest-hosting-jimmy-kimmel\">Chelsea Handler Claims Joe Rogan\u2019s Radicalizing Men, Attacks Justice Thomas While Guest Hosting Jimmy\u00a0Kimmel<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Chelsea Handler said she wanted to \u201ccall\u201d former first lady Melania Trump a \u201cprostitute\u201d during her recent hosting gig on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live,\u201d but wasn\u2019t allowed to for fear of the network being sued. The 47-year-old comedian talked about her recent stint as a host of the ABC late-night show and said\u00a0she was surprised &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1540254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}