Rosie Quits The View!
 

Rosie to Leave "The View"
Posted May 25th 2007 3:10PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: TV, Rosie O'Donnell

ABC has just announced that Rosie O'Donnell will not be back on "The View."

Brian Frons, President of ABC Daytime, issued the following statement:

"We had hoped that Rosie would be with us until the end of her contract three weeks from now, but Rosie has informed us that she would like an early leave. Therefore, we part ways, thank her for her tremendous contribution to 'The View' and wish her well."

Barbara Walters said: "I brought Rosie to the show. Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at "The View." I am most appreciative. Our close and affectionate relationship will not change."

For her part, Rosie said: "I'm extremely grateful. It's been an amazing year and I love all three women."

sad. just sad.

I had a feeling after the Elizabeth final showdown!

Makes me think it was planned - perhaps by Elizabeth herself.

Like Bush, Elizabeth is not smart enough to plan anything.

Knowing women the way I do, one of those pussy cats went in there to draw blood. A flaming queen like Tower ( :wavey: ) could not have done it better!

I am but a candle to the super-nova that is your faggotry, Ms. Pattie....

now girls....

I am quivering in the nethers - hookah!!!

Also, am in Charleston for the weekend - wish you and your's were here :[

Is it true she trashed her dressing room? I think R had the hots for E. :laugh:

:rolleyes: :cool:

I will never watch this show again!!!
Well..maybe Tuesday to hear Elizabeth's bag of bull**** to Barbara Walters.

gawd this make me mad and sad at the same time, but I understand why Rosie had to say "enough is enough" -

on one hand I wish Rosie had stuck it out, but Elisabeth is such an idiot that there's no way Rosie would've gotten through to her...and I think Rosie recognized that. at least, in the end, Rosie did wake up a ton of people to the idiocy that is our administration. hopefully, before it's too late.

no more tears :distress:

I've had it...:(

I initially resisted the urge to tack this on...but since you started it...:p

ITA!
Did you see the drag photos on Stevie Thread titled Stevie & Christine? Thoughts? LOLOL!!!

Good riddance Rosie.

I used to think she was funny. Now I just think she's a bitch.

Why? For telling the truth?:shrug:

I did! they're cute!
yeah, really. for speaking her mind?

in the words of one of my other favorite divas..."you call me a bitch cause I speak what's on my mind...guess it's easier to swallow if I sat and smiled"

and in my own words..."you say bitch like it's a bad thang!"

^5 ^5 ^5 ^5

Hey, it's definitely not easy being a bitch. :wavey:

I have to remember that quote (who said that, btw?). Might come in handy one of these days.

I cannot wait to see the ratings tank. :nod: People will tune in Tuesday to watch that nitwit Elizabeth respond but after that? Bye bye viewers. Rosie will get a new show and she will be able to speak her mind, without having to deal with a moron for a cohost. Frump has been badmouthing her again, all over the news channels, calling her "a big fat loser". I am so glad The Apprentice was just canceled. He is almost as annoying as Elizabeth.

I will totally miss Jahero but they are supposedly still going to post blogs once in awhile. Yea! I love Janette and Helene is hilarious. I am bummed we won't get our last three Monday morning blogs but I am glad Rosie walked. She was miserable and deserves to be treated better.

Politically, I lean towards Rosie's side. But Elizabeth often presented fair counter-arguments that were articulated well. So I respect both of these women. I don't, however, think Rosie should have broken her contract and left early. I am a firm believer of finishing strong and bowing out gracefully. Rosie has contributed substantially to the show, but she will only be perceived as a quitter now.

I'm trying to look on the bright side.

This just means she has more time to plan the JAHERO ROAD TRIP to my house :-)

I don't blame her one bit. They had the long knives out for her. God knows she doesn't need the money or the hassle (beck). If I were in her position I would say buh bye too. Watch the ratings tank now. ABC sucks anyways.

Way to go out like a rock star.:laugh:

:nod: :nod: :nod: :nod:

If you go to RO's site - she is taking questions.

Jason, she always takes questions. :laugh: Her blog is pretty cool and she is very interactive. Watch her live blog she just posted with Helene. It's hysterical. Janette is in the "naughty chair" for drawing a mustache on EH's photo at the View. :lol: She occassionally turns off her questions but it is usually only for a few hours or a day or something. She seems to really enjoy chatting with people. Some of the fuc#tards that write to her suck and she always says the coolest **** back to them. She will call them "**** stain" or whatever else she feels like it. I love Rosie!

Hmmm...so it seems, according to her recent blog updates, as though she was feeling played by the executive producer, Bill Geddie, with whom she says she did not get along. The split-screen, the not cutting to commercial, the selection of war-related "Hot Topics"...all happened conveniently during May sweeps. To me, it sounds as though they were trying to conjure up some Rosie controversy, and for that, she felt betrayed.

In the latest video on her blog, Rosie compared the situation to working on Broadway. In theatre, she said, there is a sense of teamwork...when one person mistakes, everyone else is there to cover for it and to support one another. That didn't happen on "that show," she said.

So it seems that it wasn't necessarily the feud with EH that was her sole reason for leaving...but the fact that it was almost orchestrated, and then how it was allowed to play out, with the split-screen and no break for commercials.

Perez has a link to a video she made tonight which is pretty good. :nod:

thank god, i am so glad that cow is leaving~ & to say she is the "bigger" person...WHATEVAH...then why is she still spewing about all this on everything?...i just saw her video blog...all i have to say is WONK WONK... charlie brown!!!~ for someone (rosie) who keeps saying she is over it & all, she sure won't shut up about it, the perpetual victim...BARF!!!~

That's pretty harsh.

That was such a set up kind of thing. I maintain EH either knew what she was doing or is so stupid that she did not realize she was just the pawn.

She is one of the biggest philathropists in this country, giving away a huge percentage of her income each year. Callling another human being a "cow" is really cold. I also wonder why you are even watching or reading her blog if you hate her so much. She is not the perpetual victim, she just tries to defend herself from being misquoted, misunderstood, misrepresented and betrayed. I guess she should just sit back and allow news agencies to misrepresent her thoughts??

Personally, I cannot wait for the View ratings to drop back down. (20 percent increase since Rosie came onboard) Obviously The View is not really about sharing one's views....

And as much as I hate to say it, I think that Joy probably had something to do with it too, originally. She was the one who brought up the reasons why GWB is terrible...and when I watched it, I thought that kind of came out of nowhere.

But then once things started to get out of hand, she seemed irked by how it was being handled.

I wonder if Rosie feels betrayed by Joy at all...

my #2 favorite diva...Christina Aguilera :thumbsup:

wow. you really don't like her. I'm curious though why you think it's appropriate to call her a "cow" - it always baffles me that people who don't agree with another person's point of view immediately turn to calling that person names that don't have anything to do with the person's point of view. like, if I was having an argument over global warming, calling me a redneck doesn't really suit the argument, does it? so, making a derogatory reference to her weight doesn't really fit anything except showing that you resorted to calling her the name you think would hurt the most. I mean, you didn't call her a flaming liberal democrat...you called her a cow. it's your business and I guess you have your reasons why you don't like her, but calling her a cow is exactly what she was saying people would say.

how is she a perpetual victim?

^^^^ i don't go to her site or read her blog, it is all over the internet since all of this blew up, you can't escape it, perez's site has tons on it~ maybe i shouldn't say cow, but she is 1 lady who drives me nuts, always has~ i have never liked her at all, & i have tried to just because stevie was on her show~ i say she is the victim, becuz when this all blew up on the show last week, she sat there saying "i don't wanna fight"...& in the media asking to drop it all, & now all you see is her posting oh whoa is me type stuff, & putting out videos still yapping & yapping about it, my god let it die already~ & for everyone who thought i might have picked sides in this i haven't, EH is a twit, if the view ever let's her go, i don't think we'll be seeing her much, just cuz you're on survivor, does not make you a great host, does that make anyone feel better?~ i still won't be watching the view anymore, ever since meredith left, it has lost it's luster for me, the only one i would watch would be joy~

The only place she has even addressed this issue is her own blog. :shrug: She is not doing interviews, she is not answering questions, she is not calling up Larry King (trump style) and she is not being interviewed by Extra like Elizatwit. She is hardly going on and on about this. The media is posting entries she made in her own blog...uh, everyone posts about their life in their blog, don't they???? She always makes little video clips so she made one about the View and it was really nothing about the fight. She is often the victim, as people who do not like her views resort to calling her names and degrading her as a human being. Trump, Bill O'Reilly, "cow comments". It is not hard to see why she is down about the whole thing.