Meredith Viera is departing The View, and in a ninth-inning upset, Rosie O'Donnell is said to be the golden child taking her place in daytime's coveted coven of shrieking harridans. Patricia Heaton, Connie Chung, and Soledad O'Brien were all said to be contenders for the spot, but ultimately, producers decided to go in a different direction. That direction being "gay".
Imdb.com released this mawkishly laudatory report today (all emphasis ours):
Former talk show queen Rosie O'Donnell is to return to the small screen as the new co-host of magazine show The View, according to internet reports. The beloved comedienne, who quit her eponymous hit daytime show in 2002 to concentrate on raising her kids with partner Kelli, is set to be announced as the replacement for Meredith Vieira on the program. TV executives will announce the news of O'Donnell's new TV role later today, according to the reports.
Well, applause, applause, applause for you, ABC! We never, ever, ever (never EVER) thought we'd say this, but we might just become avid watchers of The View now. Every episode will be like our secret fantasies. Rosie walking on set in the kitten T-shirt and jauntily mismatched sneakers she popularized in Riding the Bus with My Sister, Rosie giving Joy Behar a mullet, Rosie belting Star Jones right in the fake tits with her huge, lesbian Hulk fist, Rosie picking up Barbara Walters and noisily devouring her whole, just because. And finally, Rosie taking the stage and reciting a punctuationless, free-form poem about the whole experience. Emmys for everyone!
Mr. Skin's got some pics of a very scantily-clad Rosie. Fo' real!
