Anyone care about Star Jones and the View?

From perezhilton.com

As we reported in great detail, Star Jones announced her departure from The View yesterday; a move that was widely anticipated.

No one, however, was prepared for Starzilla's tell-all to People magazine, where she blabbed that Barbara Walters fired her by not renewing the former lawyer's contract.

This was a bit of a shock, especially considering that Walters had said publicly that Jones was welcome on The View for as long as she'd like, and she was expected to stay on for at least a few more weeks - until the middle of July.

However, in light of Star's People article, Barbara and ABC have told Jones-Reynold to leave now.

According to a source close to Jones Reynolds (probably her publicist), 'ABC has asked her not to return to the View tomorrow morning.'

A source close to the show confirmed that Star had been asked not to return.

C'mon ladies, now play nice!!

What? I heard her resign yesterday but I didn't hear about the People article. So is she not on the show today? I thought she was going to stick it out until July? Not that i'm sad here... not really a Star fan but I'm just shocked that she would burn her bridges so severely!

I don't care about the show but I'm paying attention to this mess that's going on now. This was posted on LIF:

Earlier this morning, Big Al's wife called in to Ryan Seacrest's morning radio show on KIIS FM in Los Angeles and pretty much blew her wad early, telling him everything that went down with her departure from the show.

No need to watch her on Larry King tonight. We're sure CNN will be pleased!

And, as a public service announcement to all our readers, Perez personally transcribed Star's interview with Ryan today.

Here are some highlights!

Star on her professionalism:
For the last two months, I've come in and done the show as normal every day. I walked in there. I've been 100% professional. I've shared my life. I've done what I do for the last nine years. And, in reality I've known for two months that The View was not renewing my contract and I still went in and did my job every - single - day!

Star on being asked to leave the show:
Barbara and the producers and ABC specifically told me when they wanted an announcement to come, the last week of June. They specifically asked me to stay until the middle of July. Now you know me. Emotionally when they first say your contract is not renewed, my initial desire was, 'I want to walk, get the heck out of there. I don't need to put up with this.'

Star on Star:
It didn't sound right for me when they were saying your ratings have gone down. I said, well wait a minute, I've seen the ratings. The top five shows in the year you're talking about were about me and planning the wedding. It didn't sound right. But then I thought about it and said, 'Don't be emotional. Be professional.' A lot of people's jobs depend on my doing my job. So I specifically - specifically - tried to do my job to the best of my ability.

Star on her surprise announcement:
We had always planned to make the announcement this week. We had planned to make it on Thursday. But I woke up on Tuesday morning and after so much media, so much speculation, it was time for me to say goodbye right now.

Star on Barbara being a *****:
From what I understand, Barbara never told Joy and Elizabeth [that I was getting fired]. Period!

Star on Rosie:
I'm not trying to be emotional about this. I understand it was a business decision. I understood it was a business decision when I was told then. But then in that same week, I was told they were adding a new co-host and it was Rosie O'Donnell. And that was the same week that she had been so nasty and vicious towards me. She insulted me. She tried to damage me professionally and personally.

Star on being betrayed:
It's a little shocking to me that Barbara feels betrayed. I was really surprised that Barbara feels betrayed. If you watched me yesterday, I said that she was the most amazing mentor and I thanked her for the most amazing opportunity. My departure was orchestrated some time ago. And while I can accept any business decision, it's hard to accept the manner in which it was handled during the last two months. But, if you use words like betrayal, if anyone should be betrayed, it should be me! Barbara didn't have my back.

Star Jones =

Ever since her wedding debaucle, I have no sympathy for her. She is SOOOO annoying.

I was sad when Meredith left but thats because I saw her as a real journalist, mother, and wife.

Star is and always will be an annoying, haughty beeyotch ...she deserved whatever she says happened to her

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Posted by JPC1125

I was sad when Meredith left but thats because I saw her as a real journalist, mother, and wife.

Star is and always will be an annoying, haughty beeyotch ...she deserved whatever she says happened to her

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Meredith probably left because she knew it was over for that show....that was a good career move on her part