Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Rosie O’Donnell — quite rightly, I believe — has had enough of Barbara Walters and "The View." I am told that she is not likely to renew her one-year contract when it ends in June and will leave the crazy talk show after boosting its ratings higher than ever. Sources say that Rosie feels that the backstage antics at "The View" "are completely dysfunctional." O’Donnell, who’s got plenty of money and lots of outside interests, simply doesn’t need to be there. I am told that her contract was for "one school year" and that ends in June. But ABC might feel differently, given that O’Donnell has made "The View" bigger than ever. It’s conceivable that the network brass will prevail — either buying out or retiring Walters and convincing O’Donnell to stay as the show’s moderator. Ironically, oddsmakers would have guessed that Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Rosie’s political and ideological opposite, would have been the one to cause O’Donnell the most pain at the show. But it turns out that Walters, the woman who chose O’Donnell for the job in the first place, surfaced as her backstage enemy. The tension between Walters and O’Donnell surfaced yesterday, first when Page Six reported that the pair had a fight about the Donald Trump-Miss USA saga just before the show went on air Monday morning. Then later yesterday, a letter from Trump to Rosie was leaked, in which Trump told O’Donnell that Walters, essentially, had betrayed her to Trump and acted disloyally. Whether or not this is completely true is irrelevant. But this — not the public façade she’s carefully crafted — is the Barbara Walters I’ve seen in action over the years. The first indication of this was seen earlier last year when she ditched the unpopular Star Jones in a most unceremonious and ungracious way. That should have been some indication to everyone that Walters was capable of just about anything as she struggled to preserve what’s left of her crumbling fiefdom at ABC. According to my sources, the Trump letter wasn’t the first piece of correspondence in this story. Walter apparently sent O’Donnell a letter over the Christmas holiday that wasn’t particularly supportive either. O’Donnell told friends she couldn’t believe Walters’ take on the situation. How this leaves "The View" for the rest of the TV season remains a mystery. O’Donnell isn’t going to quit, and Walters can’t fire her without ABC’s approval — and she won’t get it. The show is already lacking a fifth correspondent, and without O’Donnell — who replaced Meredith Vieira — it doesn’t have a marquee name as moderator. Of course, we’d love to hear what Joy Behar is saying off camera about all this.

Fox411 

Forgetting the whole Trump thing, did anyone really think she was going to renew with the show?

"Dear Rosie,

I hope you had a wonderful vacation with your wife — you needed the rest.

An article in today’s New York Post indicates that you blew up at BARBARA WALTERS for being a ‘liar.’ Actually, I don’t blame you, but in fact she lied to both of us! After your maniacal and foolish rant against me two weeks ago, Barbara called me from her vacation (I did not call her) in order to apologize for your behavior. She had heard that I was going to retaliate against you and tried to talk me out of it. She very much wanted me to go on the show as soon as she got back so that she could ‘patch things up’ (I said no). To be exact, she said that ‘working with her is like living in hell’ and, more pointedly, ‘Donald, never get into the mud with pigs’ and, ‘don’t worry, she won’t be here for long.’ Barbara knows exactly what she told me over the phone and she has to live with it. Perhaps that’s why her initial statement was so mild!

In another incident, when I saw her eating at Le Cirque about two months ago and asked how ‘Rosie was doing,’ she sarcastically rolled her eyes and said ‘Donald, do you have to ruin my meal.’

In any event, you have a good reason to be angry. Please give my warmest regards to Kelly!

Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump

P.S.

I was surprised that you let your spat with Barbara get into the newspapers, but, as I have always said and as you proved with Rosie, the magazine, you are very self destructive. You must work on this for your own good!"

Entertainment Tonight 

I am so over them, but posting in case you guys are not 

THE tension between "The View" creator Barbara Walters and co-host Rosie O’Donnell, sparked by O’Donnell’s feud with Donald Trump, boiled over yesterday morning when the portly comic called Walters "a [bleeping] liar." The fight started around 8:30 a.m. when Walters, back from a two-week vacation, walked into the hair and makeup room at ABC studios and tried to hug O’Donnell, whom she hired onto the popular show. According to spies, O’Donnell recoiled from Walters’ touch and yelled, "You kept me in the newspapers this whole time!" Both "View" producer Bill Geddie and Walters tried to calm O’Donnell. Walters told her, "I did everything I could to squash the story" – prompting Rosie to scream, "You didn’t call me for 10 goddamn days, and you didn’t tell me what you were going to say on television!" O’Donnell is fuming because Trump went on Larry King two weeks ago – after she had called Trump a "snake-oil salesman" – and said Walters told him she regretted hiring O’Donnell. Trump also blasted the comic as "a horrible human being and a loser." During her vacation, Walters issued a carefully worded statement saying, "I’m sorry there is friction between Donald and Rosie. That said, I do not regret for one moment my choice to hire Rosie O’Donnell as the moderator of ‘The View.’ " After O’Donnell’s outburst at Walters yesterday, Geddie jumped in and told her, "You’ve crossed the line." O’Donnell retorted, "Cameras are now outside of my house where my wife and kids are." She turned to Walters and said, "You went all around this and never called [Trump] a liar. You never said, ‘Donald is lying.’ You never called him a liar." When Walters tried to defend herself, O’Donnell erupted, "Are you looking me in the face and denying you didn’t tell him you didn’t say this? You’re a [bleeping] liar." Cindi Berger, a rep for both Walters and O’Donnell said, "Whatever happened in the hair and makeup room was hardly a squabble. It’s business as usual, everyone has moved on."

Page Six 

This feud is so last year, can’t all the parties leave it there.

Barbara Walters, the creator of ABC’s "The View," commented on the ongoing feud between her co-host Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump. In a statement given to The ShowBuzz Thursday, Walters said: "Donald Trump is a personal friend of mine and has been a good friend to ‘The View’ for many years. I’m sorry there is friction between Donald and Rosie. That said, I do not regret for one moment my choice to hire Rosie O’Donnell as the moderator of ‘The View’. I certainly hope and expect that this tempest will pass quickly." After Thursday’s "View," Trump phoned into "Good Day LA" and said: "Let me tell you something, Barbara Walters is a good friend of mine, she cannot stand Rosie O’Donnell." He added that he doesn’t plan on appearing on the ABC program again. Trump didn’t stop there. He continued to bash O’Donnell on the FOX News Channel and "Larry King Live." He responded to Walter’s statement by saying, "Well, I can tell you for a fact that that’s not what Barbara told me. Barbara is not a fan of Rosie. She’s embarrassed by Rosie. She doesn’t like Rosie. And I guess she can’t say that publicly. But trust me, Larry, that’s what she told me over the phone." Walters, who did not appear on Thursday’s show, is out of the country according to a rep.

Showbuzz 

Who thinks Barbara hates Rosie? Who think Barbarba is glad she hired Rosie? I bet you know which one I think is true!!!

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