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Rosie O’Donnell Strikes Back At Barbara Walters—Twice.

Bless you, internet. If it wasn’t for you, we wouldn’t have known how Rosie O’Donnell reacted to Barbara Walters saying she should “get on with her life” yesterday morning until her interview with Conan O’Brien that night. But thanks to the information superhighway, Rosie had a vlog up by 5:00pm, complete with reaction shots, the Billy Elliott: The Musical photo taken last week, Eminem‘s “Without Me” and a crack about Debbie Matenopolous. Harness that technology, Rosie!

Not that she was out of sarcasm by the time she hit Late Night. Here’s what she told Conan:

Apparently, “Lady,” she was talking about this lady, which it hurt her feelings. And truthfully, in spite of the fact that she now loathes me, I still do enjoy her. Yeah. I’m not sure I’m gonna be a guest on that show again because it didn’t go down well. But, you know, I tried my best. I told them when they hired me that I had never worked on a show before where I wasn’t the boss, and that there was a chance that might cause some problems.

Listen, I don’t want to dump on the show in order to benefit my own career, you know, to use it for publicity because I didn’t have a career before that show. So, I’m very thankful to The View for the help that it’s given me in my life. And I’m a big fan of the program and the producer.

Ignore her, Barbara! You’ve got your hands full with the co-hosts you’re working with now; Rosie’s out of your hands. Just smile politely and send her a bouquet when her variety show tanks.

Check out the gallery for shots of Barbara and Rosie’s rising sexual tension since 1997.

Barbara Walters Tells Off Rosie O’Donnell: “Get On With Your Life”

Barbara Walters is sick of your shit, Rosie O’Donnell. You were considered politcally strident long before you ever sat across from Elisabeth Hasselbeck, so Walters would appreciate it if you’d stop blaming your year on The View for the fact that people don’t always remember you’re supposed to be funny.

Rosie not only made that claim at a press conference for her new variety show yesterday (“If you watch my stand-up comedy, I talk about my life, my family. It only became about [politics] with the job on The View“—selfrighteousbloggersayswhat?), but gave Walters some grief for trying to pretend her co-workers don’t hate each other. “[She] wanted everyone to believe and think and act as if they get along and are really good friends and happy and hang out together, and, you know, that’s just not the reality.”

Walters, annoyed that Rosie would rather revisit the past rather than make with the ha-ha, had this to say:

Some people have done this show, and then—for years—felt the need to dump on it, maybe for their own publicity. And that not only hurts me, but I resent it. So if the shoe fits, lady—ladies—get on with your lives. We are not perfect, we are not always happy, but we’re pretty good!

Yow! Hard to believe the photo above was taken only a week ago, at the premiere Billy Elliot: The Musical. Can’t wait to see how Rosie cryptically responds on her blog!

[Photo: FilmMagic]

Bill Maher Rips Into Religion, Sherri Shepherd On The View

When did The View become Meet The Press? First the ladies ripped John McCain a new cornhole, now they’re having heated discussions about religion with Bill Maher. Maher clearly wasn’t going to tone down his stance for Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd, who became offended when Maher asked them earnestly if they believed Barack Obama might be the antichrist (as a recent e-mail chain has suggested). “A lot of people do—if you’re irrational, who knows?” he said. Maher also suggests that intelligent people who profess faith have “walled off a part of their mind.”

The hosts are on edge throughout the clip above, but the interview goes totally haywire when he starts to mock the specifics of the nativity story, with Shepherd practically holding Hasselbeck back. When he notes the similarity between the story of Jesus and those of other ancient gods (9 minutes in), Shepherd angrily asks if he’s “ever just talked to God.” Following the applause (which surprises Maher), he asks if he answers you. Shepherd says “he answered me,” to which he responds “then we should call Bellevue – that’s just a voice in your head.”

Whoopi then tells everyone to see his film Religulous, and quickly cuts to commercial. Can’t really blame her. Think he’ll get to come back?