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Rosie O’Donnell Calls Out Jay Leno for Being a ‘Mean A**hole’

O’Donnell still thinks the former late-night host is a “bully.”

Rosie O’Donnell took time out from her conflict with Donald Trump to call out another old nemesis, Jay Leno. O’Donnell named Leno a “mean a--hole” on Instagram Tuesday, in a post reacting to the new Netflix docuseries Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser. The show follows the “damaging reality” behind the popular weight-loss series, per Netflix’s description. O’Donnell was particularly appalled by a confessional from season 8 contestant Tracey Yukich, who recalled appearing on Leno’s Tonight Show, where the host read death threats out loud to her. O’Donnell hasn’t wavered on her belief that Leno is a “bully,” as she told Vulture in 2010 amid the Tonight Show shakeup that left Conan O’Brien in the wind. “Conan moved his family across the country, and his entire staff, to get a shot at what he worked seventeen years for, only to have it taken away by the bully on the playground who doesn’t want to let go and be 60,” she said at the time. The American expat is still living in Ireland, where she moved to escape Trump. The Biggest Loser documentary has also ruffled the feathers of its MAGA former co-host and trainer Jillian Michaels, who declared she’d be suing over the series’ “egregious” claims that she gave show contestants caffeine supplements without approvals.

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Eboni Boykin-PattersonEntertainment Reporter

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