Star magazine: Whoopi to be named permanent host
by Winnie McCarthy
I do not know how much reliability the story has, but according to Star magazine, Whoopi Goldberg will be given the role as host to replace Rosie O’Donnell on The View. The article quotes a “network insider” who says that, “as far as everyone at ABC is concerned, she has the job.” According to the “insider” Whoopi won everyone over and is expected to join the show full-time in the fall. However, no agreement has been reached at this point.
For the full-story, check out Star Magazine Online.
The View, Rosie O’Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, Star Magazine
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June 11th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Please say it ain’t so!
June 11th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I found the “when they don’t renew your contract, It means your fired” comment by BW very interesting. She no dummy. There’s a story on-line in The New Yorker about just how BW isn’t easily played. It ran last winter.
Whoopi sitting at the table means Rosie will most likely never be welcomed. Whoopi made a nasty aside towards Rosie several months back. And she also calls herself a independant not a liberal. Either way should be interesting if it true.
You’re Doing A Great Job Winnie! Keep It Up
June 11th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I caught BW’s comment, too, and what came to mind was the whole Star Jones thing. BW clearly said that Star wasn’t fired–just that her contract wasn’t renewed. Of course, we all knew that meant the same thing, but she just contradicted herself. I think she should retire–she looks like sh*t, despite the inch of vaseline on the camera lens!
June 11th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
My ears perked up at Babs’s comment about the contract, too, & I thought she was making a comment about ROSIE. (I’d forgotten all about Star!) Meow, what was Whoopie’s nasty crack about Rosie? Rosie has said several times that she thinks Whoopie would be great as her replacement. I wonder if Whoopie has left the Democratic Party, whch she alluded to last week, because of the dust-up that occurred during her stand-up routine at a Kerry fund-raiser at, I think, Radio City. She made a double-entendtre about Bush & apparently someone in the audience leaked it to Drudge, Fox News, Limbaugh, et al. She was then trashed and torn from limb to limb, and if I recall correctly, the Democrats left her out to dry. She might be bitter about them since that incident. Still, it’s hard to imagine her being conservative. It should be interesting because she wouldn’t perhaps have a predictable stance on current topics. I still miss Rosie!
June 11th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Given her experience with the Dem not defending her about her remark, Whoopi should know exactly how Rosie feels.
The difference between Star and Rosie is that Star obviously wanted to have her contract renewed and was bitter that it wasn’t, while Rosie didn’t seem to care much either way. Rosie was negotiating to get a piece of the profit generated by the high ratings, but BW and co. probably didn’t want to share esp. given Rosie had brought some heat on them from the Fox News crowd. I suppose they are betting that they could maintain the ratings momentum without her. Whoopi is a good choice but she may be too low-key in her style to drive ratings any higher, though.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Peaches,I can’t remember exactly, to quote it, It was right after Rosie announced and then said Whoopi would be a good choice. One of the entertainment show reporters asked/told Whoopi about it, but worded it as a loaded question. Whoopi did her churchlady face and took a shot at her. Something like: career advice from her or take her seconds.It was less than subtle.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:32 am
I tried watching after Rosie left, and it just isn’t the same. Rosie showed the audience so much love and gratitude and I don’t see the other hosts doing that.
I stop watching mainly because of Elisabeth, I can’t stand her defending this war and Bush any longer. Whoppi doesn’t have the personalty or the energy that Rosie has.
June 12th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Can you imagine Whoopi doing the giveaway? She would be like what the hell when the audience gets a bit too excited. She can replace Barbara as a calming voice but Rosie, not so much.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
So then there’s no truth to the rumor that Kathy Griffin might be joining the show?
June 12th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Meow!, thanks for the tiip about that article in New York magazine about Babs. Fascinating. Sounds like everything with her (& probably most celebs) is quid pro quo. I wish someone would do a documentary about The View. Even E! the True Hollywood Story. Or a behind-the scenes book, like the ones done about Sat. Night Live. I’m having a hard time seeing Whoopie wanting the gig, though I remember she did have her own talk show once, so presumably she’d like interviewing people. I think she’s enough of a wild card to keep me watching, to see what she’d have to say about various topics. My big fear is that Elisabeth and any other conservative voice will continue to spout the one-liners from Fox News & other right-wing “journalists.” Today she trotted out the “attack on Christians” theory regarding the eye rolling that people have had toward the news that Paris has been reading the Bible while in the clinker. That theory is straight out of the O’Relly show. He has whipped up his fans into a frenzy over this notion. Next she’ll be using his “secular progressive” lingo. I get the distinct impression she has been coached and prodded by Hannity ever since she started making appearances on Fox. There was a while, after Rosie came on the show, that I thought Elisabeth was definitely trying to be open minded. One time she even said she was having second thoughts about Bush, and that she did not like Cheney anymore. Now, she just reflexively reacts to anything that is not conservative. I wish she’d leave and go on the Fox channel, where she belongs.
June 13th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Very interesting. So much of our national conversation seems to depend on who gets in that chair, I hope they make a good choice … of the names that have been floated, Whoopi is not a bad one.
And I agree that after everything that has happened a “behind the scenes” on the View would be very interesting! And an E! True Hollywood Story that covered everyone from Debbie to Meredith would be very interesting as well.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:47 am
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June 14th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Your welcome. Glad you enjoyed. Dishy like a big bowl of ice cream