“What Not to Wear” hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly reconcile after 10-year feud
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Stacy London and Clinton Kelly have buried the hatchet.
The cohosts of TLC's makeover reality series What Not to Wear reunited for the first time in a decade on TODAY With Hoda & Jenna on Thursday, revealing that they've put their feud to rest and will even be going on a 10-city live tour, "The Stacy & Clinton Show," together.
"After seeing the same clickbait story over and over and over on Instagram about how much we hated each other, I was like, 'I can't take this anymore.' Because we don't really hate each other. We love each other, as a matter of fact," Kelly said, sharing that the reconciliation occurred during the COVID pandemic. "We have very strong feelings toward each other, so I reached out to Stacy and I was like, 'Can we put this behind us? Let's talk it out.' And we had a really emotional conversation."
"Oh, I sobbed my eyes out," London said, adding that she let it "all hang out." "I told Clinton everything that made me sad, everything that hurt me, every way I thought I hurt him," she said. "All the petty grudges, all the stupid crap." Of the previous tension, she conceded, "I think part of that is, you know, what I said about evolution. When you grow up a little bit — and we did grow up together on television — there was a lot of points of pride that I don't think either of us were willing to cop to."
As for the tour — set to begin in Birmingham, Ala. on Oct. 5 and wrap up in Austin on Oct. 18 — London promised "lots of goss," and, yes — even details about the big feud. "We'll do lots of audience participation, like if people want style advice, our updated style advice," Kelly added.
London and Kelly hosted What Not to Wear, which followed the fashionistas as they ambushed a style felon nominated by family or friends for a wardrobe makeover, from 2003 to 2013. Though they had positive rapport on the show, rumors of a feud began after the show's end in 2013 and were further ignited after Kelly shared that London had blocked him on Twitter in 2017. It came after Kelly released his collection of essays, I Hate Everyone, Except You, that detailed his mixed feelings towards London.
TLC Clinton Kelly and Stacy London on 'What Not to Wear'
Kelly wrote that he "either adored her or despised her, and never anything in between," citing the fact that they "spent nearly sixty hours a week in captivity, rarely more than an arm's length away from each other." He also conceded that he sometimes "loathed" her for what he viewed as a constant "jockeying" for attention. "There's a part of me that will love Stacy forever, and a part of me that would be just fine if I never saw her again for the rest of my life," he wrote. In 2019, Kelly told PEOPLE that London had yet to unblock him, adding, "And guess what?I really don't care."
On TODAY, the hosts spoke about forgiveness. "If you don't forgive, you're only hurting yourself," Kelly said. "It's the only way to be in the moment. If you're always holding onto a grudge, you're not living in the present." London added, "One thing I'll say about forgiveness is if you don't let go of it, the famous line is, it's like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. So do not hold onto grudges. Don't do it. Find a way through."
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