'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 mary zacc

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WHO EVER SAID THAT BARBARA WALTERS IS A "NOBODY" IS A STUPID CHILD WHO DOESNT KNOW ANYTHING. SHE HAS BEEN A "SOMEBODY" FOR MORE YEARS THAN YOU HAVE BEEN ALIVE. STAR JONES IS A DISGUSTING
EXCUSE FOR A CELEBRITY AND IF SHE DOES GET BACK ON "THE VIEW" I WILL NEVER WATCH IT AGAIN. IT IS BAD ENOUGH HAVING JOY ON THERE, WHOM I CANNOT STAND.

By mdogger12

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you must be on something...barbara walters is a piece of crap just like all the other pieces of crap on that show, if you want to call that piece of crap a show...get a life which you must not have if you watch this piece of crap..

By Normal

At least she has standards and actually sticks to them. Good on Barbara. Star or Joy kinda suced anyway. But then again I don't like the Whop any better, talk about biased idiot.... Bama calles that civil diatribe, more of a joke. Barabara was the best personality on the show. But what do I know, I'm normal.

By judi

Who wants to see that self indulged woman. She is so full of herself and is just not interesting to anyone but herself. I'm with Barbara!

By Gene

Phat dimbo needs some jenny craig. A LOT of jenny craig. AND a REAL job.

By missanne

If we don't forgive then we will not be forgiven by our heavenly father!!!!!!!!!!

By didi anderson

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star is not someone most people would watch. so why have her back? she was not interesting and quite self possessed when she WAS on. no one misses her.....barbara, whoopie, joy, eliz. and sherry are wonderful together!
actually she lied when she was on.
i wonder who gave (yes, GAVE) her the degree she says she has.....
ahh life goes on!

By Marc

The problem with Star Jones is, she's not interesting, it that easy!

By JOHN MONAGHAN

BABA WAWA NEEDS TO BRING HER UGLYNESS WHOOPIE UNDER C0NTROL AND STOP INSULTING HER GUESTS O'RILLEY AND TRUMP FOR STARTERS , THE NEXT TIME WHOOPIE WALKS OUT SHE CAN KEEP GOING , WHOOPIE HAS ZERO TALENT AN LIMITED PERSONALITY .

By Bettina

Who would want to be on that show , those women are a bunch of retards. Star is an Attorney and too intelligent for them. Not that Im a big Star fan. I stopped watching this show, designed to keep you stupid.

By Mary

GOOOOOOO DONALD TRUMP

By Carl

star was homely fat and is hideous after the weight loss, a true pos, deserving of nothing but didain and hatred.

By H E A R T

Star Jones is no biggie, no big Star there!! Barbara Walters is a huge interviewer and paved the way for many women in her business. I have never figured out why anyone wanted to hear her talk. And Whoopie belongs in Movies or on tour. Its too difficult to watch someone who is butch from the knees up, wear high heels with bows. Is for me anyway

By ManicD

WHO CARES WHAT STAR, BARBARA, "JOY" OR ANY OF THOSE FOOLS "PUT ON" OR "DON'T PUT ON" THEY HAVEN'T GOT A CLUE AND THOSE WHO WATCH THE "VIEW" HAVE EVEN LESS A CLUE.............

By tclegalserve1

Who cares, These Women do not represent the mainstream of American life or Women for that matter. Watching the View is like reading a "Tabloid Magazine" pure GOSSIP.........

By Chris Calvin

Who cares?

By liz

The View...phew! They talk drivel! A waist of my time!

By Deb

Star, you had your 15 minutes of fame while on The View. I'm very glad you lost all that weight, it was difficult to watch you struggling to breath on the show. There is nothing to you add to the show, so move on. If Celebrity Apprentice is your style, especially with the losers this year, then so be it. No one wants to see you back at The View.

By Linda

STAR JONES IS NOTHING BUT A NASTY LITTLE ALIEN. GOOD RIDDENS TO HER. I HOPE TO NEVER SEE HER ON TV AGAIN COZ SHE SICKENS ME. YUCK.

By kirkkitsch

Star Jones is news? Wow. Must've been a slow "news" day.

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