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Lady Gaga, Kelly Osbourne Feud: Pop Star Criticizes 'Fashion Police' Host, Sharon Osbourne Defends Her Daughter

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For the newest celebrity feud it's Lady Gaga vs. Kelly Osbourne. Ladies, take your corners.

It all started when Kelly revealed in an interview with U.K.'s Fabulous magazine, that despite dropping a staggering 65 pounds, she still gets called the F-word -- fat. Osbourne went on to reveal that Gaga's fans, her Little Monsters, are especially harsh when it comes to cyber-bullying.

"Lady Gaga's fans are the worst," Kelly says. "They've said I should kill myself, that they hope I get raped. I mean, it's crazy but I've had this all my life and I just try and ignore it." Gaga's fans were particularly enraged when the "Fashion Police" host recently suggested a fuller-figured Gaga appeared to be pregnant.

"I actually think she's a good singer but she has the worst fans in the world," Kelly says of Mother Monster. "And you have a responsibility to stop that. I think you do anyway."

Round two: Gaga has responded to Kelly's quote with a lengthy open letter on her fan site littlemonsters.com.

"Dear Kelly," she writes, "While I wish you had reached out to me personally, as the head of the Born This Way foundation with my mother Cynthia we would like to respond. Everyday, through my music and public voice I choose to be positive and work towards a kinder and braver world with our community of followers. I encourage them to ignore criticism, stand up to bullies, know their own value and see that we are all the same and no one person is worth more than another."

Then, Gaga goes in, calling out Kelly's day job as a harsh critic on E!'s "Fashion Police."

"I have empathy for you Kelly, but I feel it culturally important to note that you have chosen a less compassionate path. Your work on E! with the Fashion Police is rooted in criticism, judgment, and rating people's beauty against one another. 'Appearance' is the most used reason for bullying in the world. Your show breeds negativity, and over the years has even become comedic in nature. It glorifies you and Joan Rivers pointing in the camera, laughing, and making jokes about artists and celebrities as if we are zoo animals."

Fair point.

"What about your body revolution?" Gaga asked, promoting her own Body Revolution campaign for self-acceptance and healthy body image, launched in September 2012.

"It used to make me truly sad when I would hear people talk about your weight when you were younger, as I was bullied too. To see you blossoming into a beautiful slender woman who makes fun of others for a living is astounding. Why not help others? Why not defend others who are bullied for their image and share your story?"

"I am pointing this out not to take a crack at your character, as we've met before and you're lovely," Gaga concedes.

"However, I urge you to take responsibility and accountability for the example that you are setting for young people. They look up to you because you are famous, and if you treat others that way on TV, many adolescents at home on twitter assume your actions are acceptable."

The letter continues, and is signed by Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta. Well, since she had to bring mama Cynthia in, enter the perpetually outspoken Sharon Osbourne for round three!

Kelly's mom Sharon has posted her own scathing response on her Facebook page, writing, "I was the one that contacted your manager today and the email is attached below for your reference. I reached out to him as Kelly's manager and mother to ask him if you could address your 'little monster' fans and stop them from writing libelous, slanderous and vile comments about my family, including death threats to Kelly."

"Your open letter is hypocritical and full of contradictions." Sharon goes on to call the pop star a "bully" and criticize her infamous meat dress and unapologetic, consistent use of fur in her wardrobe, suggesting Gaga's own lack of compassion and outright animal cruelty.

"Let me know if you want to continue this debate. I'm an open playing field for you my darling," she concludes. Read Sharon's full letter here.

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Dawn Mumma

So let me see if I understand this, little miss Kelly makes fun of how people look and dress all day, she sticks her foot in it one day and makes a snide comment about how Lady Gaga looks fat enough to be preggers and gets hit with nasty messages from her fans and is shocked??? Knowing full well that Lady Gaga has THOSE kinds of fans?? Fans that will blast you for saying one bad word about her appearance?? Then her mother decides to write a letter to Lady Gaga's manager to ask her to plead with her fans to tone it down?? Uhm.. bad move. The open comments made by Lady Gaga were very tasteful and while not exactally kind they were were not openly calling for her fans to attack Kelly either. She told Kelly, in the nicest way possible that if you dish it out, be prepared to take it. Now, it might be wise for Lady Gaga to in general to encourage her little monsters to stop making death threats and stop being quite so vile when defending her or others for that matter but what her and her fans stand for is to stand up against bullying and that can't really be done nicely, we can't say nicely to the bullies, "pretty please be nice to us." it just doesn't work that way. So to those who have ever pointed and laughed at someone be prepared you might run into one of her fans one of these days and the result might not be so one sided in the future. As for mothers getting involved, all mothers should, all family should, no one should stand by the sidelines anymore and just let it happen anymore. No one has to just stand there and take it, celebs or otherwise. People have the right to look anyway they are gonna look without people or press pointing fingers and snickering or whispering rumors or nasty secrets.

January 19 2013 at 1:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cidasplace

Gaga is a great entertainer , great voice, but her meat outfit, blood ang guns are disgusting!

January 15 2013 at 6:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cherrie

Okay,I love both Gaga and Kelly. First of all,they need to stop saying Gaga fans because I don't support this argument at all and I'm sure there are other fans who don't as well. I agree with both sides because they have points. Gaga is right in saying Kelly has done well in her weight loss but has a job that pokes fun at other people's looks. So how can she expect not to get picked on? Also how can people expect Gaga to get all those people to stop saying mean things. ******** are ********,there's not much she can do about that. As for Sharon I agree with it being a little hypocritical since Gaga wears real animal fur but at the same time that's a personal choice. Just like it's a personal choice for fans to say mean things. I think Gaga should address her fans just to see who she can stop because all bullying is wrong and I also think Kelly should move on. Hateful comments and threats is a common thing in her line of work. They're both beautiful,I hope they peace it up.

January 15 2013 at 5:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rspapril281

I love Kelly and Sharon and I know for a fact that Lady Gaga's little monsters are in fact monsters. they are mean little *******. Stay strong Kelly, I think you are gorgeous.

January 14 2013 at 7:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Susan

I've always been a Gaga fan but here she is, criticizing Kelly and what she does for a living. I think Gaga and her monsters have gone too far and it's really made me back off her music. It just feels hypocritical to me now. Gaga is really busy being the "Oh, I was hurt and bullied" victim, yet she and her monsters are bullies.

Oh well - that means I won't be spending any more money on Gaga's music.

January 12 2013 at 1:45 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Ann

Two grown women who have to have their "mommy" go to bat for them. Fight your own battles, ladies.

January 12 2013 at 12:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cady00

Kelly Osborne is a nobody along with her mother and brother the fact that the word celebrity in the same sentence is a joke. Although I'm also not a fan of Lady GaGa she is a celebrity in every sense of the word. How quickly people forget their reality show and what trash they really are. They were always doing and saying nasty **** about people trying to be famous. This is just another attempt to try and stay relevant. Please go back to England Osbornes you are worthless

January 12 2013 at 12:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brenda

Kelly is a pretty young woman and should be very proud of herself...Lady GaGa is ugly...

January 12 2013 at 11:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Sergio

Really! Kelly looks like a plump troll. PS What is she famous for anyway drug addiction and horrible style? And she has talked more crap about people than most, now she has to take it so what!

January 12 2013 at 12:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rspapril281

Oh no Brenda it looks like you upset one of Lady Gaga's monsters lol

January 14 2013 at 7:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wheniwasphab

Here's the long and short of it... no matter how much Kelly weighs, she's still uglier than Ozzie when he's crashed his ATV head-on into a tree. She and her mother are talentless big mouths- Sharon, figuratively, Piggy, er, Kelly. literally.
Gaga's weird but harmless; she's loaded with talent; her fans are idiots, by and large. Needy people in search of a 2nd mother, unlike Melissa Rivers who is in search of a 1st mother. Joan was funny 40 years; now she's pathetic.

January 12 2013 at 10:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ndflightrisk

Kelly Osborne is a talentless, entitled lump who wouldn't be acceptable for McDonalds if she didn't have the dad she does. Lady Gaga is incredibly talented and one of the most best marketing minds EVER. She plays the masses like a harp. I'm going with Gaga on this one ....

January 12 2013 at 9:58 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
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