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Maris
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03-28-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 4:21 am
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly two years after Star Jones left "The View" on rocky terms, the 46-year-old TV personality has criticized former boss Barbara Walters for writing about her. In Walters' new memoir, "Audition," she discusses how Jones wouldn't acknowledge her gastric bypass surgery on the air. She also writes about Jones' lavish wedding, which wound up alienating viewers as Jones accepted gifts in return for promotion. "It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character," Jones told Us Weekly magazine. tell us how you really feel Star
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 4:48 am
i heard that quote last night and it truly shows what kind of person Star really is.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 5:13 am
I have to admit I thought the same thing. Why on earth would Barbara Walters, at her age, when she doesnt need the money admit in a book -- without any shame -- that she had an affair with a married man. If I was Star I would have kept my mouth shut but she does have a point, it is pretty sad.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 6:04 am
agreed, Maris.. its esp sad b/c she seems to reveal it with such pride if she regretted 'ruining the career' of the first democratically elected black senator (her words) with this affair....I guess because the wife hired a p.i. and it led to divorce, or whatever....I can't believe that she would now put this stain on his rep I was pretty surprised by all what she revealed about Star. how many celebs and colleagues will feel 'safe' with her now??)
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 6:22 am
The way I see it, Barbara didn't ruin that man's career. He did it all by himself when he decided to cheat on his wife. <55>
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 6:27 am
I agree with Star on this one. It is sad and makes me think less of Ms. Walters. <55>
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 7:40 am
Sharinia, what did she reveal about Star? Sounds like you've read the book?
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 7:46 am
from the link above: The details about Jones are less juicy, but shed light on what happened behind the scenes on "The View" when Jones refused to publicly acknowledge the gastric bypass surgery she had in 2003. Walters says Jones, who'd dropped 160 pounds in three years, changed her mind after telling Walters she'd talk about the procedure on the program. Walters says she didn't want to be the "poster child" for the procedure. "I understood that, but it put us all in a terrible position," Walters writes. "It meant we virtually had to lie for Star, especially when she said again and again on the air that her weight loss was due primarily to portion control and Pilates. ... Joy (Behar), in particular, resented having to go along with the lie that implied that all one needed to do was sit-ups and ingest one cookie instead of two." Jones confirmed her surgery last year in a first-person essay in Glamour magazine. She said she "was scared of what people might think," and "ashamed at not being able to get (herself) under control without this procedure." In March, Jones quietly filed for divorce from banker Al Reynolds. The couple married in November 2004
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 7:52 am
You know, there are some things that are better left unsaid. I think Walters should have kept her fingers mum when writing about this kind of stuff. IMO, she purposely hurt other people by what she wrote. I think is shows a lack of class on her part, in light of what Star Jones is going through, and WHY would you admit to an affair when it might hurt someone else's family and home life? However, if she would have left the star jones stuff out, she wouldn't be getting the publicity she is now.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 7:58 am
I thought the senator was divorced from the wife he cheated on with Barbara.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 8:01 am
no he was married at the time, Barbara was divorced. Barbara apparently broke up with him after a number of years due to the risks to her career and he divorced at around the same time. So maybe they got caught? I wonder though whether this explains Harry Reasoner's open hostility to her back then. He was vicious to her on air, had no respect for her. If he knew she was having an affair with a married senator while she was supposed to be a journalist covering Wasington --- not a good thing to do.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 8:23 am
Holly, haven't read it ... she did an hour-long interview with Oprah on Tues, and another with Charlie Gibson last night with Oprah, she said that Star had forced them all to lie about her gastric bypass - I guess that means not mention it. she also basically said that her 'bridezilla' image was deserved, that she wanted a big expensive wedding and promoted every product she could to get them for free and that The View wanted get rid of her and 'let' her make up some fake excuse for leaving - and she felt 'betrayed' when Star didn't go along with it, and instead came out and said that she felt fired
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 8:36 am
oh, and she also said that Star was huffing and puffing and could barely walk onto the set at The View, because of her weight
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 8:45 am
Shar, did she say or write anything about Rosie O'Donnell?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 9:00 am
BW is right up there with Rosie O'Donnell on my list of people who need to keep their yaps snapped.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 9:26 am
she said she ended the affair when the NY Times started doing blind items about them. He offered to leave his wife and then ultimately did but Barbara didn't want to marry. His career did not end over the affair. It was never 'publically' acknoweldged till now. She called him when she was writing her book and told him. Right or wrong, she said the reason why she told was if she was going to be honest about all the other aspects of her life, she felt she needed to be honest about this.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 9:41 am
and was there any apology/regret involved in her narrative? havent heard about it.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 10:00 am
I'm on the sides of Rosie and Star on this one. I can't say I've ever been a fan of Star (I like Rosie), but I still think the book Barbara <100> wrote was extremely tacky. She has come off as this uber-classy person who won't compromise her dignity to cover some things, etc. Then she goes and pulls this sensationalistic, tabloidesque tell-all, that has betrayed a lot of people that she has befriended over the years. Any morsel of respect that I had for her is gone, because I think for someone who tries to sell this "classy dame" persona, she certainly blew that act out of the water by betraying so many people from her past. Personally, I don't care if Star was originally going to talk about the surgery or not. It's STAR'S choice, not Barbara's. And while I may not have been watching the show the whole time that Star was losing weight, I think that her weight loss could have been just NOT covered. Weight loss is a very personal thing, and it causes many people emotional and mental stress. To turn a blind eye to the ramifications of losing weight, just for the "great story" of a surgery, is to not have any respect for Star's personal feelings about herself, or her choices in pursuing weight loss. At the end of the day, I think Barbara is the one looking dirty in this, and I feel sympathetic toward her casualties.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 10:18 am
lol Escapee Maris, from Oprah's web site - link
quote:In an interview, legendary television journalist Barbara Walters dropped the bombshell that she had a two-year affair with a married man—the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. Barbara said she regretted that the affair ended up costing him his Senate seat, but she didn't regret the affair. "No, it was wonderful," Barbara said.
Mames, BW said that she loved and respected Rosie, but that she had emotional issues (depression, early loss of her mother at age 11) and that sometimes made things difficult. Rosie began to treat her as if she were the mother she was missing, which made it difficult if she ever disappointed her. She also said that Rosie had a 'VERY bad day' once in her dressing room, but didn't want to discuss the details (sounded like a rage) She talked about the difficulties with Rosie making fun of Trump, wrongly saying that he had filed bankruptcy, and generally feuding with him (which led to Trump threatening lawsuits against the show and ABC). She also mentioned her conflicts and big blow up with Elizabeth. She said that viewers were tuning in to see who she was going to bash next. Said that contract negotiations came to an impasse and it was Rosie's choice to leave (this came right after admitting her plan to lie about Star's departure, lol...hmm) She reiterated warm personal feelings for Rosie, but considered her year on The View, and Star's last year, the only two 'bad years' the show has had
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 10:22 am
ITA with Eeyore on this, except I was never a Rosie fan.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 10:25 am
ditto Escapee (altho I did like Rosie before The View)
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 10:55 am
I had no issues with her before the view.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 11:06 am
Wasn't Barbara Walter's gripe with Star that Star was knowingly deceiving The View's audience about her weight loss method? The other members of the panel would either have had to confront her on air or simply sit by (as they did) knowing about that deception.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 11:18 am
Yes Jimmer, but my point is that Star's weight loss shouldn't even BE fodder for The View. If you say NOTHING about it at all, you aren't putting yourself in a position to lie or avoid the truth. Just let Star lose weight on her own, however she does it. Don't turn to her one day and say "Star, you've lost so much weight! How'd you do it?!?" because you are then forcing Star into a position she didn't want to deal with publically, and you're putting yourself (the other ladies of The View) in the position to uphold Star's lies, or not. Plain and simple, they shouldn't have even MENTIONED Star's weight at all. That's what I'm saying. It wasn't their business in the first place.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 11:22 am
I can't really pick a dog in this fight. Barbara's <100> revelations are tacky and insensitive, but Star's wedding promotion was tacky and self-serving. Star should be glad Barbara <100> didn't visit the subject of Al Reynolds' sexual orientation. Which most discerning folks agree does not skew toward the hetero.
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