Giuliana Rancic in her new book, “Going Off Script,” saves her harshest digs for her former flame, actor Jerry O’Connell, whom she compares to Jekyll and Hyde.
The two met at the W Hotel in San Diego and struck up a passionate, devoted love affair — that is, until he cheated on her with Ginger Spice, a k a Geri Halliwell.
“I was being two-timed for one of the lesser Spices?” she writes. Confronted, O’Connell told her, “ ‘Yeah, I know. I’m so sorry. I don’t know what happened.’ He had as much emotion as the customer-service representative who tells you your bags missed the flight.”
A contrite O’Connell wooed her back and the two discussed plans for marriage until Maxim’s 100 Hottest Women party in 2004 when O’Connell wandered off. “Little did I know he was in the VIP area, talking up Rebecca. As a prelude to feeling up Rebecca.”
A week later, he departed for Las Vegas and stopped returning her calls. When she confronted him at his home, he refused to buzz her up.
“Going Off Script: How I Survived a Crazy Childhood, Cancer, and Clooney’s 32 On-Screen Rejections,” out this week, was written before the implosion of “Fashion Police.”