Kathy Griffin to Replace Joan Rivers on ‘Fashion Police’

 Kathy Griffin is stepping in for her friend Joan Rivers’s on E’s Fashion Police, according to the Daily Mail.

Joan Rivers is a tough act to follow, but E! Network has decided its hit show Fashion Police will continue – with Kathy Griffin filling Joan’s Jimmy Choos.

Show insiders tell MailOnline, that Joan’s daughter Melissa Rivers agreed to continue to produce her mother’s show and has given her blessing to the choice. E! executives are negotiating a deal with the popular redhead.

‘Kathy has been told if she wants the gig she can have it because Melissa wanted someone who her mother would have approved of,’ says the show source. ‘Kathy will probably take the position but they are still working out the deal.’

Joan created Fashion Police and Melissa produced and directed the show, so Joan’s grieving daughter may be on the first show they tape to say a few words about her mother and to introduce Kathy.

A source told the DM that Joan’s daughter, Melissa Rivers, will continue as a producer on the show. The source also said, “Kathy has been told if she wants the gig she can have it because Melissa wanted someone who her mother would have approved of. Kathy will probably take the position but they are still working out the deal.”

Both female comedians in the entertainment world, Joan and Kathy were very close!