Barbara Walters felt "betrayed" by this co-host of "sight"

The creator of the show and the long-standing panelist claim that she was blind by one of her co-stars.


As a creator and part of the original panel ofView,Barbara Walters Has spent 17 years working with several different co-hosts, all with different opinions. Although debates and peak disagreements are standard enough on the show, from time to time, things have had more staff. Walters even said that one of herViewThe co-hosts "betrayed" she. To find out what co-star she referred to and how their relationship was forward, read it. And for more uncomfortable experiments on the whole, seeThis guest made Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Bear go outView.

Walters was blind when Star Jones announced her departure on the air.

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Back in June 2006, then HostStar Jones surprised by his colleagues byannouncing his departure From the show during live playback. Jones shared with the audience that ABC did not renew his contract for next season.

"Something has been on my heart a little," she said. "I have the impression that this is the right time to tell you that the show moves in another direction for its 10th season and I will not come back as a host next year."

The same day, Walters told theAssociated press,throughToday, that Jones was supposed to announce that she would not come back toView Two days later, that's why she and the rest of the panelists were so surprised. She also said that Jones broke from this plane injured her feelings.

"I like the star and I tried to do everything I could possibly - until this morning, when I was betrayed - to protect it," Walters explained.

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Jones said she felt she "was drawn" from the show.

Barbara Walters and Star Jones in 1999
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Walters also discovered that Jones had discreetly made ainterview withPeople, saying that she felt like "[she] was drawn"View. Walters told theApThat she believed that Jones buys the situation in this way hurts the show's reputation.

"I would have liked the star to be part and not said" I was drawn "and not to have it look like the program to be cruel to be cruel," she said.

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Walters claimed that Jones' contract was not renewed because the public was "losing trust in it".

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Walters said the network has decided not to renew the Jones' contract due to public research that has presented a decline Trust in the host. She mentioned the drastic weight loss of Jones after gastric bypass surgery, a procedure she chose not to disclose nordiscuss the air, as a possible reason for the recovery of viewers on it.

However, Walters said she had tried to keep Jones on the show.

"We tried to talk about [ABC]," she explained to theAp. "And we tried to give star time to redeem to the public and research continued to get worse."

SpeakingToThe New York Timesthe next day of Jones leftViewWalters again claimed that the choice was made on the basis of public research.

"It was things she [Jones] did some air," Walters said. "The public loses self-confidence. They did not believe some of the things she said."

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Jones later said that she understood the "business decision" of the show to let her go.

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AppearingtoLarry King Livee In July 2006, Jones said she understood why her contract was not renewed.

"I examined a business decision," she explained toLarry King. "In April, when I was told that the numbers were not added and they would make a change. You emotionally know that you are going," after nine years, you want to be angry and upset "... So I said, "Be professional, people's jobs depend on your part. 'So I went to work and I said, "It's a business decision." "

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Jones also explained why she decided to announce her early departure.

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Jones also shared with King that there were rumors "recalled" on his departureView Even before officially announced officially, which is why she wanted the advance. She even claimed that the news had been disclosed and someone had started a countdown clock for her last day online.

"I realized that it turned into a circus atmosphere," she said. "And the viewers deserve, after nine years, I do not go out into a circus atmosphere."

King said that Walters had told her that she had planned to pay tribute to Jones on View During what was supposed to be his last episode. However, Jones said she had never accepted this fanfare.

"I agreed that I would make the announcement that I would leave Thursday," she said. "I specifically said that I did not want a great tribute. I did not feel like that after saying that my contract will not be renewed."

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