Melissa Warburg Rosenberg born January 20 1968 better known as Melissa Rivers is an American actress television host and producer She is the daughter of the late Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg As an actress she has had roles in television shows including Beverly Hills 90210 Silk Stalkings The Comeback In 1998 she also appeared in the scificomedy madefortelevision movie Men in White and in the 1999 film The Big Tease a comedy directed by Kevin Allen starring Craig Ferguson Additionally she teamed up with her mother Joan Rivers portraying themselves in the 1994 celebrity docudrama Tears and Laughter The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story In the early 1990s she branched out on the preshow red carpet interviewing celebrities on nationally televised awards shows Rivers who has hosted various events and served as a producer for the E Network has hosted two of the channels highestrated specials Oh Baby Melissas Guide to Pregnancy and Oh Toddler Surviving the Early Years aired in January 2002 With her mother she hosted fashion on the red carpet interviews for the E cable network In 2003 they left her red carpet preshow on E to accept a more lucrative deal with the TV Guide Channel valued at between 6 and 8 million Also in 2002 she appeared on the ABC Network competitive reality show Im a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here She has been a regular guest on the webcast show Tom Greens House Tonight In 2013 she was a cocreator and coproducer of Joans YouTube web series In Bed With Joan a fifteen to thirty minute show with a new video uploaded weekly in which Joan interviews a celebrity about a wide variety of personal topics in Joans bed with Melissa conducting interview questions for the last several minutes