NEW YORK (June 27, 2006) — Don’t expect any smackdown between Rosie O’Donnell and Star Jones Reynolds on “The View.”
As Access Hollywood was the first to report Monday, Star is leaving the show, and Tuesday, she made the announcement official.
Star told People magazine, “I feel like I was fired.”
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.
Rosie had made several caustic remarks about Star, saying on Access Hollywood that it was dishonest for her to talk about losing more than 100 pounds through diet and exercise without talking about gastric bypass surgery.
Star, 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 Rosie’s quotes about Star.
Walters, after beckoning the studio audience to give Star 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.
Comic Joy Behar looked like she was shocked.
“Who am I going to fight with?” Joy said.
Starreplied: “Something tells me you will have somebody to fight with.”
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