Why? He generally neglected to ask celebrities walking the Academy Awards red carpet "Who are you wearing?"
Kevin MacLellan, president of production for E!, says the network's research shows that its red carpet viewers (more than 3.5 million on Sunday) mostly want up-close-and-personal gab fests; sartorial scoop came in second.
Despite those findings, E! can hardly deny that the designer gowns and tuxedos worn by Hollywood's glitterati are discussed the next day with just as much, if not more, fervor as the Oscar winners themselves. Not to mention that the vast majority of those ensembles are on loan from design houses, not out of kindness but in anticipation of that on-air mention (a.k.a. publicity) Seacrest didn't facilitate.
In my opinion, E! bit the hand that feeds it. And if the network wants to continue scoring prime red carpet interviews, Seacrest better (re)learn to play the game.
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