Star Not Happy With Babs’ “Audition”
You have to kind of wonder what really goes on backstage at The View. There’s just been too much happening the past few years. While when they show started, they seemed like one big happy family, a sisterhood, the infighting that has come to light is at some point shocking.
Sure enough, Debbie Matenopoulos ended up leaving on some odd terms, but that was quickly forgotten as the show continued to have much success. Then Meredith Vieira left for the greener pastures of The Today Show, and Star Jones announced a surprising move to leave. She’d undergone quite a metamorphosis in the year before that, first dropping a stunning amount of weight on the show, then getting married. It no longer seemed important for her to tell us with every given opportunity that she was a lawyer.
It was never quite clear one way or another why she was departing, but it was clear there was some type of animosity somewhere. Rosie O’Donnell joined the cast after this, but it was never harmonious. She brought ratings, which I’m sure is what ABC was looking for, but they may not have been looking for the quite all of the attention Rosie and The View were getting, as she battled not just The Trump and Kelly Ripa, but also her cohost Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters. Read more
