Sally Jessy Raphael SLAMS celebrity talk show hosts and claims Woody Allen was worst interview ever

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Veteran talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael did not hide her sour feelings about the new generation of daytime tv stars.The 87-year-old slammed Kelly Clarkson, Drew Barrymore and even Ellen DeGeneres for not being real journalists and interviewers during a no-holds-barred chat on the Behind the Velvet Ropepodcast with David Yontef.Raphael also named names when it came to her worst interviews ever, revealing that controversial director Woody Allen had an 'odor problem.' Not holding back:Sally Jessy Raphael slammed Kelly Clarkson, Drew Barrymore and even Ellen DeGeneres for not being real journalists and interviewers during a no-holds-barred chat on the Behind the Velvet Rope podcast with David Yontef'You know, we have a thing in America.

If you’ve done well atone thing, you can do well at anything,' Sally Jessy said of today's stars-turned-hosts.Speaking of Kelly Clarkson and Drew Barrymore - both of whom have popular daytime talk shows - she added: 'So the problem is you've got an actress and you've got a person who sings, and they take the people and they go - even Ellen DeGeneres, who was a comedian, because you're a comedian does not make you a talk show host - does not make you an interviewer. 'Kelly Clarkson is not an interviewer.

People are writing questions on a little, you know, thing, but if you had to do it by yourself and make it fascinating, you've got a problem because the broadcasters insist on using people who haven't come up through the ranks.'Raphael remains a journalist's journalist and feels that the only people who should be fronting talk shows are those 'who have been news people, who have been correspondents, who know what they're doing.' 'So the problem is you've got an actress and you've got a.