Jesus, it's a good thing that Aileen Wournos isn't available too.

That sounds like an improvement to me. Actually, get them all on the sauce and give them hormone injections. That's television!

"Star Jones Leaves 'The View' "

The above sentence means nothing to anyone outside of the states.







Only joking, I know about the story!

That would force me to dvr it every day of the week.

Meredith Calls "The View" A "Joke"
Posted Aug 28th 2006 8:15AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Features, Let's Get This Party Started

How about this for a hot topic: Meredith Vieira now says that her old show "The View" is "hard to watch," that she got "blasé" about it after nine years, and even that it "sort of became a joke" after she left.

All of which should provide fodder for an interesting discussion when the current "View"-ers -- Barbara, Joy, Elisabeth, and, of course, Rosie -- get back to the studio next week.

The new "Today" show co-host disses her old colleagues on the ABC show in an interview with Time magazine, saying that she hasn't watched the show at all since she took off, except for the day after Star Jones announced she was "leaving." Even though the show has been garnering stellar ratings, Vieira says she thinks it's "very sad" what's happened to it. "I'm proud of the work we did there, but it's not a good time in the history of the show," says Meredith. "It's hard to watch. It sort of became a joke."

Vieira also adds that she's not overly excited about the hours at her new gig: "I'm not somebody who loves getting up at 4 in the morning, so this might kill me, but we'll see."

What a bitch. First she disses her old show (and you never want to burn bridges...can she afford to burn that one?) and then bitches about her hours at the new show? Damn, for the money they are throwing at her what is wrong with getting up at 4am? I don't love getting up at 6:30 am but I do it because I have a job.

Boohoo for the beotch.

Has any one witnessed the train wreck of a commercial with Rosie, Joy, and the blond hair girl singing Broadway style for the View? It is HORRIBLE...

I think that she hit the nail on the head. It is a joke now. When I turn it on, it is more from a morbid fascination. Is Elizabeth going to freak out again? Is Barbara going to make anymore racially insensitive comments? Is one of the guests going to get into a pissing match with someone on the show (ala Sandra Bernhard?)

As for the early hours, pretty much every single early morning newsperson says the same thing, so it is not a big deal.

I'm not sure if this was in the original posting of Meredith's interview with Time, but at the end of the article it now reads:

Interesting. If you look at the article, it seems like it picked certain words that she used and threw an article around it, instead of quoting her directly for the most part.

very interesting note...wouldn't be in her interest, though, to make any bad comments about the show, i think, since it brought her to where she is. plus, it's never good to get on anyone's bad side in that industry!

No doubt about that. But I still disagree with Meredith dissing the show. It's like leaving your job and you go to your new job and bad mouth the people you used to work with and criticize the management. You just don't do that.

But she didn't do that.. They just twisted her words to make it seem like she dissed her show while she was talking about the media's reaction to the show.

Or, more likely, she didn't choose her words very carefully, so the point she was trying to make was ambiguous. Celebrities put their feet in their mouths all the time, then blame someone else when they get heat for it.