I think Star Jones’ weight loss has gone to her head. Either that or she accidentally lost a few brain cells when she trying to shed pounds in her mid-section.
You’d think after all that the former “View” co-host has gone through in the public eye during the last few years she would have learned that keeping her mouth shut (and not just around food) can be quite beneficial.
Unfortunately, the world learned today that Star Jones has yet to learn how powerful silence can really be.
Less than 24 hours after her former boss Barbara Walters (you know, the person who hired Jones on “The View” and made her into a household name) appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” the former prosecutor turned TV host turned Payless Shoes’ poster child came out scratching.
Apparently Jones was not at all happy with how Walters portrayed her on Oprah’s show. If you missed yesterday’s episode, Walters spent about 10 minutes rehashing what went down on “The View” in the weeks following Jones gastric bypass surgery, her circus of a wedding to Al Reynolds, and subsequent firing a couple years later.
In her book and on “Oprah” Walters claimed that Jones made her and the rest of the “View” co-hosts lie about her dramatic weight loss (for more than a year Jones insisted that she lost nearly 200 pounds via “portion control and pilates”) and later the former Court TV personality allegedly backstabbed Walters when she got the boot from the daytime chatfest.
Walters also spoke to Oprah about an affair she had with a then-married Senator Edward Brooke in the ‘70’s
Yada, yada.
Well, today Jones was cornered by some TV reporters and asked about her reaction to Walters’s appearance on the queen of talk’s show. Jones responded:
“It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character.”
Hmm… and what does Jones comment reveal about her own character?
A rep for Walters responded to Jones’ statement a few hours ago saying, “I will not dignify this with a comment. Barbara’s written words say it all!”
SNAP!
I have a feeling that somewhere out there Al Reynolds is enjoying a good laugh and toasting his luck that Jones is out of his life for good.