'You Can't Push Barbara': Star Jones Talks Absence From 'The View'

By Rob Shuter Posted Apr 8th 2011 01:22PM

Star Jones is everywhere on the small screen these days, except for one show: 'The View.' The 'Celebrity Apprentice' star, best-selling author and NeNe Leakes' arch enemy visited my HDNet show to chat up her new novel 'Satan's Sisters,' and she addressed reports Barbara Walters is personally blocking her from ever showing up at 'The View' again.

"You can't push Barbara into doing anything! Are you out of your mind?" Star said when asked if her friends on her old show (Joy, Sherri and Whoopi) could persuade their boss into having her on (or to do "anything" for that matter).

This week, Star appeared on HLN's 'The Joy Behar show,' where the two of them met up years after Star was famously pushed out of the 'The View.' Joy made it very clear she had nothing to do with the guest bookings at her other job but seemed to enjoy every minute chatting and challenging her former co-host.

A spokesperson for ABC tells me the Barbara reports are utter nonsense. "Since the show began, Ms. Walters has made it her practice not to book the program," the statement read.

Star tells me she has yet to be contacted by the bookers of the daytime hit, "but I've heard obviously from Joy and Sherri and Whoopi. I mean, these are my friends."

But the reason Barbara might have had a hand in keeping Star from returning to her former home, this time as a guest, is because the book 'Satan's Sister' is based on five women on a talk show where "alliances are forged, careers are made, and bridges are burned."

The matriarch of the fictional show, called 'The Lunch Club,' is a character named Maxine Robinson, the first African-American to become a network news anchor. By comparison, Barbara was the first woman to have that job. Oh, and in the book, Maxine is conniving and borderline nasty.

Come on Barbara, make it happen! Trust me, it will be TV GOLD! To see my entire interview with Star Jones, tune into 'Naughty But Nice' on Saturday at 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM, only on HDNet.

► More 'NBN': My Chats With Joan Rivers, Wendy Williams and Cheryl Burke!

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Friday 08 April

By johndoe

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BARBARA WALTERS needs to go, it's her time, she is old school and all she does is cuts people down, She has no give and take left, she thinks her opinion is all that matters. IT"S TIME FOR HER TO GO.

By saoirse

They most definitely ARE a bunch of wind bag NOTHINGS and nobodies. There is more intelligent and DIGNIFIED conversation in a laundromat or check out line at the market than the moronic screaming matches on that waste of time.
It's BEYOND BELIEF how other morons quote THEM as a source.

Sunday 10 April

By Patricia

Why would Barbara Walters invite Star Jones back to visit "The View?" Star isn't liked by the viewers of The View! Star was a self centered disaster in the making.

By MIKE ZVIRB

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I think no one recognized Star.

By Jennifer

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Jones is overly opinionated and hard to tolerate. I don't miss her on The View. My mother watches The View so I see parts of it from time to time. I don't like that show because the hostesses never shut up and let the guests speak. They constantly interupt and talk over one another. I think that is rude. I, for one, was taught better manners.

Saturday 09 April

By Barb

I have lost all use for Star Jones since seeing her on the Celebrity Appretice. I thought I admired her. Nope! Sorry!

By mrbluesays

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Black women hates her own hair and will copy white women hair doo look by any means necessary to achieve a white look hair doo, why? and do they do that to there pubic hair as well?

By annie

Barbara please don't have Starr on. She promoted herself enough on The View to last a lifetime.

By mdogger12

who watches this piece of crap show anyway..what a waste of time for anyone watching these morons...none of them have any brains or if they do they are sitting on them, like every one who watches it...

By me

show sucks, watched it twice, never again, one sided bullcrap by a bunch of women who lie, bend the facts and try to act smart, and i do mean act. but as always you have dead heads that watch crap like this worthless show, to me none of them are worth my time.

Geez, does anyone really watch the View anymore? These gals talk over themselves, they are always doing a one upper on the other and Barbara Walters always has to talk about herself.

By gposner29

This just in....NO ONE CARES....

By lefty

Barbara is the best and if she does not want Star on her show.. you best believe she has her reason. If they make "Shark Tale 2" Star can play on of the fishes...she looks just like one.

By Shirley

Star Jones is fighting to get the little bit of exposure she gets. I won't watch The Apprentice because of Star. I disliked this person that was so in love with herself when she was on The View & she still is. There is no room in my life for her & as far as I'm concerned Barbara or The View owe her nothing, absoutely nothing.

By Ernest DeBrew

I love "The Talk" on CBS more than I do with "The View" on ABC.

Yeah, I would like to read Star Jones' book. She may be tough and aggressive but at least she is not boring.

By zman

S Jones is NASTY GREEDY & UGLY!

By tb

would there be this much noise if this was th big O not allowing her to be on her show

By kenny say's

THE VIEW = a show by idiots, of idiots, for idiots

By Mark Leach

Star named her friends on the show. One person on the show was left out.....Elizabeth. Can Star not even be FRIENDS with a republican?????? Isn't the Democrat theme song that EVERYONE be included?

By Ann

I don't believe Star and Elizabeth know each other. I think Elizabeth came on after Star left.

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