Star Gets the View Screw
The Lloyd Man (AKA Lloyd Grove) has witnessed the “icy” side of Barbara Walters and lived to write about it. That dude is fearless…
A few hours after a televised display of saccharine warmth and affection between Barbara Walters and Star Jones Reynolds - who yesterday surprised her “View” colleagues by announcing she’s leaving in mid-July - their relationship turned very chilly indeed. […]
“I have always told the truth on this program, except in the case of Star,” Walters told me, her voice the temperature of liquid nitrogen. “The network decided long ago not to renew her contract. Her contract is with the network, not with me. I was trying to protect Star and her sensitivities. She has, after all, been on the program.”
Sticking in the knife, Walters added icily: “There are very strong reasons why [ABC execs] felt she had lost the audience. I had then decided, along with [executive producer] Bill Geddie, that whatever she wanted to say - that she had a new job, that she was starting a new chapter - we would back her up.” […]
But after Jones Reynolds was quoted yesterday by People magazine saying that her contract for a 10th season wasn’t renewed and “I feel like I was fired,” Walters threw her under the bus.
That’s gotta be one bigass bus!
[Source: Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown]
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