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| | Elisabeth Hasselbeck's last View episode is today, she's joining Fox & Friends | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Next season of “The View” is shaping up to look almost entirely different than the panel that long-time viewers have grown accustomed to seeing on their television screens every morning. Last we heard, Jenny McCarthy is in “serious talks” to replace Joy Behar at the end of this season, and Barbara Walters will also be departing at that time as well. Now Page Six has reported an exclusive bombshell that says Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving too, and her last day is … today. Damn, that was fast.
Of course, Elisabeth (who joined “The View” in 2002) has seemed to be on the verge of leaving the show for quite some time. She doesn’t handle conflict well and doesn’t exactly represent in a strong, coherent way as the sole conservative on the panel. She also tends to say some really dumb stuff like women only go lesbian when they can’t find a man. Way back in 2008, Elisabeth’s days were supposedly numbered. Most recently in March, she was allegedly kicked off the show for being “too extreme and right wing” although at the time, an ABC rep insisted Liz was “a valued member of ‘The View’ and has a long term contract.” A few days later, Barbara Walters insisted that the rumors were not true and “we have no plans for Elisabeth to leave the show.” Well, plans have changed very quickly, and Page Six says Elisabeth will be running out the door tomorrow for a new gig on “Fox & Friends”:
Elizabeth Hasselbeck is leaving “The View” and joining Fox News’ morning show “FOX and Friends” as a co-host, Page Six has exclusively confirmed.
After much speculation, conservative co-host Hasselbeck is following Barbara Walters and Joy Behar out of the ABC daytime talk show. She will join Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade on the Fox couch in mid-September.
FOX News Chairman & CEO Roger Ailes announced, “Elisabeth?s warm and engaging personality made her a star on ‘The View.’ She has proven to be an excellent conversationalist and I am certain she will make a great addition to our already successful morning franchise.”
Hasselbeck added, “I have been a long-time fan of ‘Fox & Friends’ and am excited to be joining their team in September.”
Current ‘FOX & Friends’ co-host Gretchen Carlson will now anchor a one-hour daytime program beginning in early fall.
Fox News last week announced that Megyn Kelly is moving to primetime after she returns from maternity leave. Kelly currently hosts ?America Live? which airs from 1pm to 3pm.
The network also announced that it has signed long-term deals with Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren, who host from 8 until 11 pm, as well as with Bret Baier and Shep Smith, who host the 6pm and 7pm hours.
There has been much speculation about 36-year-old Hasselbeck?s next move after Sherri Shepherd hinted that the outspoken blonde could be leaving “The View.”
So many changes, I can?t believe it!? Sherri told Wendy Williams on June 17, “The two black women are left; usually, they kill us off in the beginning.”
Recent reports have said that Jenny McCarthy or Brooke Shields may take over Hasselbeck?s role on “The View.”
[From Page Six]
Obviously, the show now needs a replacement for Elisabeth, and since she’s leaving so soon, there will probably be a flurry of guest hosts vying for the permanent gig. Back when all the talk was going on in March, Brooke Shields looked to be the frontrunner, but who knows where ABC will go with this. What I want to know is this — why hasn’t ABC given Rachel Campos-Duffy a real shot at the panel? She’s served as a guest host several times and was actually one of the finalists during the period when Elisabeth was ultimately hired. Rachel is adorable and just happens to be conservative. From what I recall from her stint on “The Real World,” her positions tend to be slightly more socially liberal than Elisabeth’s. I think Rachel would be a perfect fit (she’s been doing more guest gigs recently, so fingers crossed), and I think Elisabeth will greatly enjoy her time working with like-minded people at “Fox News.”
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN
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| | Elisabeth Hasselbeck defends Goop depriving her kids of carbs: 'do what you want' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On Wednesday Kaiser covered the story that Gwyneth Paltrow wasn’t letting her kids eat carbohydrates like bread, pasta or rice. It wasn’t just an issue of putting her kids on a gluten free diet, Goop doesn’t give them gluten-free alternatives like other flour-based products. Gwyneth writes in her upcoming cookbook that “Sometimes when my family is not eating pasta, bread or processed grains like white rice, we’re left with that specific hunger that comes with avoiding carbs.” It’s possible Gwyneth lets her family eat things like brown rice, but the way she phrases it suggests an avoidance of all carbs other than fruit possibly, although I would bet she limits that too. She also writes about that they’re all sensitive to gluten, dairy and eggs so that rules out whole wheat and a couple of other food groups. It doesn’t sound like some kind of elimination diet, it sounds like she’s forcing her food issues on them, it’s making them hungry, she knows about it and considers it a character-building experience.
Well Elisabeth Hasselbeck had some words of support for Goop – sort of. Hasselbeck has celiac disease, she’s written a book on it, and she said that many people are sensitive to gluten. Then she explains that there are plenty of gluten-free alternatives like rice, quinoa and barley that people can try. In that respect she’s much more practical than Goop and she’s not deliberately depriving her kids:
Gwyneth Paltrow’s low-carb, gluten-free family diet made headlines on March 13, making it perfect fodder for the women of The View. As co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd weighed in that same day, the recently ousted Elisabeth Hasselbeck came out in defense of the 40-year-old Oscar winner.
“I do believe that there is a growing number of people with gluten intolerance, not just celiac disease, like myself,” said Hasslebeck, who’s authored two bestselling gluten-free cookbooks. “I do think it causes inflammation in the body, whether you are celiac or gluten intolerant or not.” (People with celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten, a protein found most often in wheat, rye and barley.)
The mother of three, 35, didn’t want to debate Paltrow’s dietary decisions, as she wanted to focus on the real issue at hand. “She could do whatever the heck she wants,” Hasselbeck said of Apple and Moses’ mom, who is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. “She’s a mom, those are her kids, do what you want.” (In Paltrow’s new cookbook, It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great, the star writes, “Sometimes when my family is not eating pasta, bread or processed grains like white rice, we’re left with that specific hunger that comes with avoiding carbs.”)
Hasselbeck continued, “I do believe that there are quality carbs that can replace gluten, like a quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, rice, corn, all those things . . . They’re alternative grains that provide a great amount of nutrition. You need quality carbs. Kids need quality carbohydrates to run.”
Since being forced to modify her diet, Hasselbeck said she’s noticed a significant improvement in her overall health. “I’ve been on the diet for 10 years,” she explained. “I’ve never felt better.”
[From US Weekly]
My son is very sensitive to what he eats, and we put him on an elimination diet a while ago. It was temporary and in no way did I not let him eat carbs. I try to feed him healthy, whole foods overall, and he ate carbs like rice and oatmeal until we figured out that high fructose corn syrup and corn products did not sit right with him. Now he eats gluten again. I also understand going gluten free when you’re just sensitive to it or suspect you are. My mom went gluten free and she ended up losing weight without even trying. Her doctor suggested it, she did it and feels great now.
All of that, and what Elisabeth suggests – using gluten-free substitutes, is much different than what Goop is doing to her kids. She eliminated entire food groups, not just gluten. I mean they can’t go out for an occasional ice cream treat, (just give them Lactaid if you’re worried about it for God’s sake) and they can’t eat the cake at a friend’s birthday party. This goes beyond feeding your children in a healthy balanced way and trying to help them avoid junk, which is perfectly understandable. This is a woman who values thinness above all else pushing her extreme issues around food and eating onto her children. As Kaiser wrote, it’s not fair. It’s one thing for Paltrow to try and market her restrictive diet to grown adults with free will, it’s another for her to make her growing kids eat like that until they’re “left with that specific hunger.” She doesn’t care if they’re hungry, you know? I couldn’t do that to my kid. Then again this woman named her kid “Apple.”
Gwyneth and her kids, Apple and Moses, are shown out in 2011 (sundress) and in October 2012 (white shirts). Elisabeth Hasselbeck is shown on 4-14-13. Credit: Fame, WENN and PacificCoastNews
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| | Is Barbara Walters helping Elisabeth Hasselbeck save face after firing her? | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On Sunday, I covered the Us Weekly story that Elisabeth Hasselbeck had been kicked off of The View for being ?too extreme and right-wing? for test audiences. The actual wording of the Us Weekly story was that Elisabeth hadn?t been flat-out FIRED, though ? sources claimed Elisabeth had been informed that producers would not be offering her another contract. Which gives her some room to claim that she was leaving of her accord as a goodwill face-saving gesture. I think Elisabeth is putting up some kind of fight, though! On yesterday?s View, Barbara Walters told the audience that ?We have no plans for Elisabeth to leave the show.? Us Weekly is playing it like they?re still right, but Elisabeth hasn?t gotten the ax? YET.
Barbara Walters and Elisabeth Hasselbeck are keeping up appearances — for now. After Us Weekly and other outlets reported last week that Hasselbeck’s contract on ABC’s The View had not been renewed, Walters took to the air to address the issue. Walking onto the set arm-in-arm with her controversial co-host, the veteran journalist opened the March 11 episode by reassuring viewers that Hasselbeck was a respected member of the show.
“The truth is, we love Elisabeth…Beyond that, we value and appreciate her point of view,” Walters said Monday. “It’s important to us because Elisabeth helps give this show perspective and balance…We have no plans for Elisabeth to leave the show.”
That said, she added, “[Executive producer] Bill [Geddie] and I have always said that when one of you makes the choice to leave, that is your choice, and we will support your decision.”
A source tells Us that the denial is part of a strategy to “save face” for both Hasselbeck and the series. Producers are “just leaving the door open for Elisabeth to announce she is leaving on her own when she is ready,” the insider explains. “They don’t want to make her look bad and don’t want to make the show look bad for canning her…They just want to make it seem like Elisabeth decided to leave on her own when the announcement comes.”
Original panelist Star Jones departed the show amid similar drama in 2006; before Jones’ surprise, on-air exit, Walters had denied rampant rumors that Jones was on her way out. Jones returned to the show to bury the hatchet in February 2012, saying of her renegade departure: “I made the decision to go out on my own terms, to control it, so that if I was ever invited back, I would feel good about it.” Walters then admitted to viewers that Jones’ contract was simply not renewed and that the denials about her leaving were to “protect” Jones.
Us Weekly first broke the news of Hasselbeck’s departure on Friday, March 8. “The viewers they polled all said she was too extreme and right wing,” a source told Us of the conservative 35-year-old mother of three, who officially joined the cast in November 2003, after a guest-hosting stint following Lisa Ling’s 2002 departure. “People did not watch the show because of Elisabeth. So they told her [Thursday, March 7,] her contract would not be renewed.”
Hasselbeck isn’t the only host who won’t be returning to the couch. Joy Behar, the only remaining original cohort besides series co-creator Walters, announced last week that she would leave to pursue other interests after this season.
“You can’t stay forever on a show,” the 70-year-old host of Current TV’s Joy Behar: Say Anything! told Good Morning America of her decision to leave The View when her contract ends in August. “I am graciously exiting stage left. I’ve put in 16 and a half years and felt the time was right. I want to explore other opportunities.”
[From Us Weekly]
Yeah, I believe Us Weekly?s version of events. I think producers don?t want Elisabeth to come back and they?ve already informed her that she will not be offered a new contract, and she?s either fighting with them or Barbara is letting Elisabeth look like she?s leaving because she (Elisabeth) wants to leave.
Bizarrely, there are also rumors that Barbara is going to step down from cohosting the chat show too, which is weird because The View is Barbara?s baby, and I think it?s probably one of the most profitable talk shows out there right now. Not, like, Ellen DeGeneres profitable, but still pretty lucrative. And Barbara is the executive producer too! So, if Barbara steps down from co-hosting (Big IF), my guess is that she?ll still retain her producer credit and have a hand in deciding who should be hired and fired.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Elisabeth Hasselbeck Kicked Off 'The View' for Being 'Too Extreme and Right Wing' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Joy Behar announced her departure from The View last week saying she wanted to focus on the play she’s writing and her stand-up. Stand-up as in comedy not stand up like in actual standing up like I thought she meant when I found out she was 70.
While Behar is willingly leaving in August when her contract is up, Us Weekly reports Elisabeth Hasselbeck is being fired from the show.
According to sources, the conservative Hasselbeck isn’t popular with TV audiences because they consider her “too extreme and right wing.” This according to a recent poll.”People did not watch the show because of Elisabeth. So they told her yesterday her contract would not be renewed.”
A rep forThe Viewacted coy saying, “Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a valued member of The View and has a long term contract.”
That probably means they’re still trying to figure out how to tell her without having her make a scene. I’d suggest they do it with a singing telegram or even better, a strippergram. No one ever breaks down and cries while a guy thrusts his penis in their face. Ever!
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| | Elisabeth Hasselbeck kicked off 'The View' for being 'too extreme & right wing' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Thursday night, media outlets reported that Joy Behar was finally leaving The View. Even though I don?t watch that trainwreck of a talk show, I?ll admit that I kind of like Joy. She?s got that shticky comedy that is so old-school, it?s actually kind of cool. At the time, I didn?t think Joy?s departure was any big deal ? she?d been on the show for more than 16 years, and who knows? Maybe she just ran out of things to talk about (I would). But now it seems like Joy?s departure is part of entire revamp of The View. Not only is Joy leaving (seemingly of her own accord, but who knows?), but now comes word that Elisabeth Hasselbeck has been axed. Fascinating:
The people have spoken. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the five cohorts of ABC’s daytime talk show The View, will not be returning to the couch next season, following hot on the footsteps of fellow cohost Joy Behar, a source tells Us Weekly.
According to the source, the show’s resident conservative voice is being ousted after market research revealed that she isn’t popular with TV audiences.
“The viewers they polled all said she was too extreme and right wing,” the insider tells Us. “People did not watch the show because of Elisabeth. So they told her yesterday her contract would not be renewed.”
When reached for comment, a rep for the show told Us in a statement: “Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a valued member of The View and has a long term contract.”
Hasselbeck, 35, joined the cast of the daytime talk show in November 2003 after guest-hosting the show following Lisa Ling’s departure in 2002.
Throughout the course of her time on The View, she has gotten into numerous arguments with her cohosts, including a heated argument with Rosie O’Donnell in 2007 over the War in Afghanistan and with Barbara Walters over Mitt Romney in 2012.
Earlier this week, Behar, 70, announced her own departure from the show after 16 1/2 years.
“You can’t stay forever on a show,” she told Good Morning America. “I am graciously exiting stage left. I’ve put in 16 1/2 years and felt the time was right. I want to explore other opportunities.”
Adds the source to Us: “Joy says it just felt … tired and like work. She was over it.”
Behar has been with the talk show since its inception in 1997, and currently hosts Joy Behar: Say Anything! on Current TV.
[From Us Weekly]
I?m not trying to create a political flame-war with this, I?m really not. My interest in this story is mostly as media-watcher, like it will be interesting to see who Barbara Walters brings in to replace these two, and whether the show will survive. Do I personally think Hasselbeck was ?too extreme and right-wing?? Yeah, I did, but I?m pretty liberal. What bugged me wasn?t so much that Elisabeth was super-conservative, it was that I thought she was an awful spokeswoman for her politics. Like, I really don?t like Ann Coulter (at all), but Coulter is able to coherently and (dare I say) intellectually explain her positions, which is something Hasselbeck rarely did (in my opinion). Coulter is extreme and right-wing, but she’s a good and effective spokeswoman for her politics, whereas Hasselbeck… just was not.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Elisabeth Hasselbeck thinks women turn gay due to a lack of men | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck continues to spew her unique brand of stupid all over The View. While the four harpies were discussing the fact that many women are having same sex relationships later in life after “years of heterosexuality/marriage” Elisabeth chimed in “I’ll tell you what’s happening, a lot of the older men are going for younger women leaving the women with no one.”
Joy retorted “So that’s why they’re suddenly sleeping with women? That’s ridiculous, I’m sorry…”
Elisabeth kept pressing her idiotic point in that manic tone of hers. “You’re looking for a companion that understands you… say you were in heterosexual relationships. You’re looking for that, but the men who are of your age who have had similar experience… [are] chasing a little young one.”
“Being gay is not just holding hands and walking through the tulips,” Joy explained. “There are things that people do sexually. I don’t think that you suddenly wake up and say ‘You know, I want to do that.’ You wanted to do that, you were just trapped in a system that said get married… you were gay and you just didn’t admit it, you didn’t acknowledge it.”
“We’ve done studies that women aren’t necessarily needing something sexual, they’re more needing something in terms of companionship at a certain age,” Elisabeth countered.
So what does Elisabeth think, that lesbians are just best friends that have sex too? She’s wrong to think that being gay is a choice made by desperation. It’s sad that she thinks this way, but as Whoopi kind of mentioned it does make it sound like she’s not opposed to having some same sex company - if there are no other options.
This isn’t the first offensive and dumb thing this woman has said, there have been so many other incidents and surely there will be more.
Oh and Obama was on The View yesterday. I haven’t watched it yet and am not sure we’ll report on it. I’m over that show, and as rude as it sounds I’m kind of over Obama too. (Update: thanks to all of you who mentioned that Obama’s View appearance was taped yesterday and airs today. Maybe I’ll watch it then.)
Thanks to the Advocate via Gossip Rocks for this story.
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| | Portia de Rossi to pen book, advocate for same sex marriage | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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There’s a new interview with Ellen DeGeneres’ wife, Portia de Rossi, in The Advocate. She comes across as thoughtful and grounded as she talks about the fight for same sex rights along with her decision to publish an as-of-yet unwritten autobiography, due out this fall. The article references Portia’s troubled past, when she was on Ally McBeal in the late 90s and was struggling with anorexia and bulimia. Portia, 37, is now much more content and is half of the worlds most famous lesbian couple. Her wife, Ellen DeGeneres, regularly cracks jokes about their home life on her popular talk show. We haven’t heard a lot from Portia recently, but that’s about to change. She tells The Advocate that she’s happy to help further the cause for same sex marriage rights and hints that her profile is about to raise as she writes her book. Portia may become the face of the marriage equality movement:
On advocating for same sex rights
After so many years dancing around questions about her sexuality, she first spoke with The Advocate in 2005, talking at length about her relationship with DeGeneres. But even then she avoided talking politics.
But four years later, during an appearance on The View to promote her sitcom, ABC?s Better Off Ted, De Rossi didn?t hesitate before she schooled conservative host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on what marriage really means: ?Without the word, we don?t have equal rights.? Every citizen of this country should have that right.?
?I?ve had fun there in the past,? De Rossi says of the show. ?But just before I was scheduled to appear, the New York legislature voted on marriage and it failed. It was so disappointing to me. And I thought, if I?m going on The View and I have a viewpoint, I might as well talk about it. It?s more important than talking about a TV show.?…
?Ever since Ellen and I got together, I feel like I?ve been given an opportunity to actually?God, this sounds corny?? She rolls her eyes at herself, fidgets, and then forges ahead. ?Well, I feel like my life can actually kind of stand for something. And I don?t mean that in a self-aggrandizing way, like, ?Look at me, I can make a difference.? But I feel like, maybe I get why I?m here.?…
?I think it?s up to us to save marriage,? she says. ?Up to gay people across the country, seeing as though we?re fighting for it so vehemently.? De Rossi has an impressive ability to marry the personal and political: ?This whole thing has been a wave of excitement and hope, and then it gently falls back into despair. And then it picks us up again. Unfortunately, we?re the ones who have to suffer this?this humiliation, really. There?s kind of a dignity that?s been stripped from us. Gay people are the ones who have to suffer through it?but without it, it won?t change.?
On her relationship with Ellen
?To think that a married gay couple is considered boring and normal is fantastic,? she says. ?Happiness is a choice too. It?s a choice to live in a state of gratitude and to fix what makes you unhappy. Being honest with who you are, being able to go out into the world and show people that you can be successful and be happy and be in a good marriage?it?s important.?
Mostly, they have so far avoided letting their notoriety get the better of them by communicating with each other. ?I tell her all my insecurities, all of my worries, and within a few minutes I feel better,? De Rossi says. ?She?s just so helpful to me. I think I help her too. I keep her focused on what?s important and what the big picture is. I think that?s what a good couple does for each other.? …
On her book
This is the first time she?s talked to a reporter about it. ?I wanted to see what kind of book I was writing,? she says. ?It will deal with all the secrets that nearly killed me.? Approached by an agent at William Morris to write about eating disorders, De Rossi wasn?t sure she could do it. Nevertheless, she?s writing it from a firsthand perspective without the typical celebrity-assist ghostwriter. ?Nobody can really get inside the anorexic?s mind like the anorexic,? she says, referring to her own battles with an eating disorder.
[From The Advocate]
I really admire the way Portia is so matter-of-fact in the way she explains the fight for same sex rights. There’s something quiet and reluctant but steadfast about her. Like she feels uncomfortable putting herself out there but has made peace with it and knows it’s the right thing to do. It doesn’t make sense to me that it’s 2010 and same sex couples don’t have the same rights as everyone else. I also find it baffling that there are people who are openly fighting the fact that there are couples who want to settle down and have families. Isn’t that what that side claims to value? I look forward to seeing what’s next for Portia.
The Advocate also has photos of Portia in their article that feature her in 1920s styling and she looks incredible. Some of the photos are here, and there are more on The Advocate’s website.
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| | Elisabeth Hasselbeck Says She's Done Having Kids | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Feed Me Gossip |
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With three kids, does The View’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck have plans to get pregnant again?“No, I don’t,” she said Monday on Barbara Walters’ SIRIUS XM radio show, Here’s Barbara. “If something happened and I was pregnant again … I don?t know how that would happen, because I’m clearly avoiding my husband,” former NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck.Not getting intimate is tough.“He’s so cute,” Hasselbeck, 32, said. “This is the problem … he’s very cute.”Asked if she’s ever heard of birth control, Hasselbeck replied, “Yeah, I have. It takes a while to kick in once you start one. But in the meantime, I just find him incredibly attractive. So, it’s not like I’m that disciplined, so right now, my strategy is dressing in a way that will not get me pregnant.”How does she dress so that she doesn’t get pregnant?“Nothing too cute,” she said. “I’m trying to wear nothing too revealing.”
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| | Elisabeth Hasselbeck Shows Off Baby, Talks Nip Slip | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Making her triumphant return to “The View,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck revealed pictures of her handsome baby Isaiah on this morning’s broadcast.
And during the talk show, Ms. Hasselbeck explained that she’s already had a photo snafu while trying to capture candid pics of her little guy.
Elisabeth explained, “You know when your baby smiles for the first time – I reach for the iPhone and take the photo. No wonder why he is smiling – because my nipple is in the photo!”
After getting a good laugh from her co-hosts as well as the audience, Hasselbeck added that she sent the picture to her whole family email list by mistake."It’s worse than drunk dialing. It’s embarrassing.”
More Photos Here
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| | Rosie calls Elisabeth Hasselbeck a tw*t; Is she split with Kelli after all? | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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According to Fox’s entertainment blog, Fox411, Rosie O’Donnell made some verbal swipes at her former co-host on The View and rival, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Rosie was doing stand-up and made some jokes about “The View,” calling it “The Screw,” and went on to call Elisabeth a “tw*t,” claiming “she turned on me.” In late April, 2007, Rosie announced she was leaving “The View” after just one season, saying that contract talks fell through with producers but that she would remain on the show until June 22. Then about a month later, in late May, Rosie and Elisabeth got into a heated argument (link leads to video) on the show over the way the conservative pundits were portraying Rosie’s opinion. Instead of staying to finish her term, Rosie never returned to the show and left three weeks before her contract was finished.
All of that was over two years ago, but it’s what we remember Rosie for since her holiday variety show was such a flop. I guess it’s inevitable that she jokes about it, but it’s hard not to get the impression that there are plenty of sour grapes in that bowl:
Rosie O’Donnell can’t seem to stop talking about her ugly departure from “The View,” and the famous feud she had with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
An eyewitness tells FOX411 exclusively that the former “The View” co-host slammed her former show and called her former co-host a vulgarism that starts with a “t” and rhymes with “swat,” just four days before Hasselbeck gave birth to her third child.
It all happened on August 5 during a stand-up routine as part of O’Donnell’s “Girls’ Night Out Tour” with singer Cyndi Lauper. First, Rosie cracked jokes about “The View,” illiciting roars of laughter from the audience at the St. George Theatre in Staten Island, N.Y.
“Rosie started out by asking the audience, ‘What was that show I was on?’” an audience member tells FOX411. “Then, instead of saying, ‘The View,’ she called it ‘The Screw You.’ She continued by calling Elisabeth Hasselbeck, ‘Elizabeth Half-a-brain.’ Then she jumped to another topic.”
But Rosie wasn’t done. Not even close.
The audience member says she went back to her “The View” experience. “Rosie said when she first met Elisabeth, she thought she would love her, because they’re both Christians,” the eyewitness says. “Then she stopped and said, ‘But then she turned on me.’ Then Rosie called her a ‘t–t.’ O’Donnell then moved on to a different subject, saying she really didn’t want to start a new feud, or restart an old one.”
[From Fox 411]
If Rosie doesn’t want to start a feud she shouldn’t be calling Elisabeth a twat, it’s that simple. I just re-watched the famous argument these two had and it made me uncomfortable to see how bad it got. Elisabeth seemed like the one who couldn’t let it go, but Rosie also kept pressing her. These two butted heads too much to co-exist on that show, and while Rosie should have stopped pressuring Elisabeth to give an answer, she wouldn’t budge an inch either.
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