Posted Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 7:46 am | 7 Comments »
Filed under: Rosie-ODonnell
Rosie O’Donnell announced on her blog yesterday that talks for her reported MSNBC deal are over.
In her trademark cryptic haiku style, the controversial talkstress wrote:
we were close to a deal
almost done
i let it slip in miami
causing panic on the studio end
2day there is no deal
poof
my career as a pundit is over
b4 it began
and on we go
And don’t think for a second that it was because Ro mentioned the negotiations last week in public that MSNBC scotched the deal. In the end, it was about money.
The network couldn’t afford to make a deal for Rosie just based on a nighttime show. It would have to have been tied into something else on daytime. The problem with that? Rosie doesn’t want to return to a grueling daytime schedule while her kids are in school.
Posted Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 10:11 am | 21 Comments »
Filed under: Rosie-ODonnell
Rosie O’Donnell has yet to blog about her possible television deal with MSNBC, but during her opening act at New York’s Comedy Festival last night, the controversial former talk show diva had a lot to get off her chest — including hints at a new TV project.
Here’s a little summary:
Rosie on her TV future: “You know I did a TV show last year. And we’re not gonna talk about it. It’s over! It’s over! It’s a new year, a new beginning. I’m talking to an unidentified network, and I was told I’m not allowed to mention this. You don’t tell me what I’m not allowed to say because I can’t help but say it. So when they said to me, ‘Don’t mention it,’ ” she paused, “No, I can’t. Men in suits called people I know and yelled. There’s nothing scarier than men in suits.”
Rosie on the internet: “I remember when I started my show and I said we needed to get online. ‘What do you mean “get online”?’ said the guy from Time Warner. Yeah … a little foreboding.”
Rosie on money: “If you have $100 million, and you want $100 million more, I think you’re wasting your life.”
Rosie on parenting: “Our oldest boy is 12, and Kelli is much better at discipline.” When her son struggled with an algebra problem, “I said to him, ‘Honey, there is no way to solve these problems. Your teacher is playing a joke on you.’ ”
Rosie on religion: “I always wanted to be a Jew. Five years ago (with Madonna’s guidance), I started studying Kabbalah. At first I thought it was a cult — what the hell is this? What’s the red string? Turns out that string is $32. And I gotta tell you, as a Jew, I was offended.”
Posted Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 4:40 pm | 12 Comments »
Filed under: Rosie-ODonnell
According to this report from the New York Times, Rosie O’Donnell is in talks to get her own TV show on MSNBC.
The fearless diva will take Dan Abrams’ 9 PM slot, which would pit her against Larry King Live on CNN.
NBC execs, however, say that the deal is not sealed.
Fingers crossed!!
Posted Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 at 10:34 am | 7 Comments »
Filed under: Martha-Stewart, Rosie-ODonnell
Rosie O’Donnell channels her inner Queen Elizabeth on ‘The Martha Stewart Show’ tomorrow, her first television appearance since abruptly leaving ‘The View.’
Rosie joked to Goddess Martha, “I can hardly walk. I don’t know how queens do this. And by that, I mean gay men too.”
Martha says she offered Rosie a job on her show after the controversial gabber left ‘The View,’ “but she wanted too much money.”
Meanwhile, Rosie says this time of year is “living hell in her home.”
“Why?” asks Martha. “Are the kids bouncing off the walls?”
Says Rosie: “No - mommy is in bed, trying to go to sleep, thinking: there is an Almond Joy one flight down. I go through those kids’ candy bags like you can’t believe.”
Posted Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 11:10 am | 11 Comments »
Filed under: Rosie-ODonnell
Unlike Linda Evangelista, it seems the years have not been as kind to Rosie O’Donnell.
The defunct moderator of ‘The View’ looked a little worse for wear during a signing for her new book ‘Celebrity Detox’ at the Barnes and Noble store in New York City on Tuesday.
Now let’s just hope that Rosie’s sequel to the book will be called ‘Refrigerator Rehab.’ We love us some Ro, but this cannot be healthy!
Posted Friday, October 5th, 2007 at 7:35 am | 6 Comments »
Filed under: Barbara-Walters, Rosie-ODonnell
Celebrity loudmouth Rosie O’Donnell dissed Barbara Walters - again!! - on stage Wednesday night doing stand-up.
Rosie started off by saying, “When I was fired by Barbara Walters” - the first time she didn’t stick to “The View’s” spin that her departure from the show was by mutual agreement.
Rosie claimed onstage that Walters and other “View” couchmates wear earpieces through which producers tell them what to say, which she refused to do.
Rosie also confided that she and the veteran newswoman were actually so close early on in her tenure as moderator that Walters recommended Rosie use Astroglide, which, she added, took her by surprise.
“But she paved the way for women,” Rosie allowed. “She interviewed Presidents … ”
“Like Abraham Lincoln,” snapped Barr.
Uh-oh….looks like Rosie has been experiencing an extreme case of verbal diarrhea ever since she got the boot.
Sour grapes for one?
Now quick — somebody get her some Pepto before she does anymore damage!
Posted Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 7:04 am | 4 Comments »
Filed under: Oprah, Rosie-ODonnell
While it’d be anyone’s dream come true to be asked to sit and chat on Oprah Winfrey’s show, defunct ‘View’ moderator-turned-author Rosie O’Donnell has declined the talk show host’s offer.
O invited Ro on her show to discuss her latest book ‘Celebrity Detox’, which lambastes Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Donald Trump and others.
A source tells Page Six that instead, Rosie is doing an interview with Diane Sawyer.
O’Donnell’s rep, Cindi Berger, meanwhile, says: “Rosie has always been booked with Diane. We gracefully declined Oprah’s offer. I’m sure Rosie will do Oprah’s show another.”
Posted Monday, September 10th, 2007 at 1:34 pm | 4 Comments »
Filed under: Barbara-Walters, Rosie-ODonnell
Looks like there’s one person who isn’t looking forward to the release of Rosie O’Donnell’s new book, ‘Celebrity Detox.’
Chatting with TV’s ‘Extra‘, former boss and career re-ignitor Barbara Walters said: “Rosie sent me the book with a note telling me how much she loved me. I have read the book and I would like to concentrate on the love that she sent.”
With criticisms like that, who needs compliments?
Posted Monday, September 10th, 2007 at 7:19 am | 5 Comments »
Filed under: Donald-Trump, Rosie-ODonnell
Is there no end to their on-going feud?
Rosie O’Donnell, whose war with Donald Trump became the hottest Hot Topic during her stint at ‘The View’, is taking yet another jab at Trump. This time in her new book ‘Celebrity Detox’ which hits store shelves October 2, she calls Trump a “torn scarecrow” and “a slug.”
Ro also writes about the Tara Connor scandal. You know, the Miss USA caught underage drinking and who tested positive for cocaine, but was allowed to enter rehab and keep her title?
Rosie writes:
“I honestly did not anticipate the malice of his response . . . I assumed Donald believed he had money. I did not assume Donald believed he was money. But apparently he does . . . The stuffing of his self spilled out - think of a torn scarecrow, only instead of hay, it’s crisp $100 bills blowing through the cornfields.”
The Donald, however, is not going to take this without stirring up some controversy of his own. He too has a book coming out next month called ‘Think Big and Kick Ass’, about which he says:
“I devote some time to Rosie in my book. As you know, she said I went bankrupt and ABC apologized. Rosie lies. I got angry because I never went bankrupt. I’m worth 8 billion today. She never said that. She writes false stuff . . . Rosie is a loser, a very sad case - unattractive both inside and out. I’ll make a little wager my book sells a lot more than hers.”
And while Ro’s rep, Cindi Berger, denies the possibility that anyone could have seen her new book yet, Page Six has a source who claims to have read every word. Their thoughts? “This is the work of a deeply disturbed woman, page after page of insane ramblings. Ultimately, it’s sad and pathetic.”
Posted Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 at 9:42 am | 8 Comments »
Filed under: Rosie-ODonnell
In a video blog posting on her site, Rosie O’Donnell says she watched the season premiere of ‘The View’ yesterday.
“Whoopi was good,” says Ro, but it seems the now defunct moderator cannot stand the new set. “It’s just wrong,” she said, referring to it as “an error in judgment.”
And as for whether it saddened her to watch the show go on without her? “No, I wasn’t sad.”
