posted on June 27, 2006 11:00:34 AM
Star Jones Reynolds Leaving 'The View'
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer
June 27, 2006, 1:35 PM EDT
NEW YORK -- Don't expect any smackdown between Rosie O'Donnell and Star Jones Reynolds on "The View." Reynolds said Tuesday she was leaving the show.
She told People magazine, "I feel like I was fired."
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Rumors that she was leaving have intensified since the April announcement that Rosie O'Donnell would be replacing Meredith Vieira on "The View" in the fall.
O'Donnell had made several caustic remarks about Reynolds, saying that it was dishonest for her to talk about losing more than 100 pounds through diet and exercise without talking about gastric bypass surgery.
Reynolds, one of the original cast members of Barbara Walters' daily chatfest, made the announcement after the first commercial break of "The View" on Tuesday, saying the show had decided to move in a new direction.
"I'm not sure what the future holds," she said. "But I'm absolutely sure who holds the future."
Her announcement came on the same day that Lloyd Grove's gossip column in the New York Daily News headlined: "Star gazing may end soon for `View'-ers," and repeated one of O'Donnell's quotes about Reynolds.
Walters, after beckoning the studio audience to give Reynolds a standing ovation, indicated the timing was a surprise. She expressed her "sadness that it has turned out this way."
"I can't imagine how `The View' would have succeeded without you," she said.
posted on June 27, 2006 11:05:15 AM
So...this is a TeeVee show? I remember BahBah WaWa from a long time ago, the one talked like Elmer Fudd.... guess she's still alive, can't say I know the other ladies though. Watching TeeVee in the daytime is against the rules around here I guess we're missing a whole bunch.
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posted on June 27, 2006 11:30:53 AM
It's a women's chat program, Profe..you wouldn't be interested. And Bah Bah is still alive and kicking...she must be in her 70's though. Rosie is joining the ladies in Sept, that's as masculine as it gets..
posted on June 27, 2006 04:11:37 PM
There was talk a few months ago that "The View" was not renewing Star's contract. (About the same time they said Rosie was joining the show.) This is not a surprise for anyone. I only catch the show if it comes on while the TV is on and no one is watching (on primarily for cover noise). I don't care for the show, don't care one whit for Star or Rosie, and none of this will change whether I view "The View" or not.
I always loved Gilda Radner's version of Baba Wawa.
posted on June 27, 2006 04:19:00 PM
I have the TV on from the time I get up until I go to bed.. usually all day on CNN, sometimes on Fox. Just for the noise like you said Twig.
I catch the view once in a while, but the ONLY one I like is Joy. I also try and catch Judge Judy in the afternoon. Night watching is blah..
posted on June 30, 2006 07:46:41 PM
Boohoo, me thinks she got to small for her britches.
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You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me!
posted on July 1, 2006 01:44:45 PM
Now if she'd only quit giving interviews. Guess what Star; people get fired all the time. Have the good grace to go quietly.
posted on July 1, 2006 10:29:15 PM
Star is weird these day! I saw her on Larry King, and she was talking as though she was stoned. Slow, breathy. She was much more live on the show in the old days. I for one won't miss her. But I wouldn't miss Hasselbeck either.
