Star Jones Reynolds: 'I Was Fired'
TUESDAY JUNE 27, 2006 11:15AM EST

TUESDAY JUNE 27, 2006 11:55PM EST UPDATED
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Star Jones Reynolds announced Tuesday morning on The View that she'll be leaving the show in July after nine years as a cohost.

"Something's been on my heart for a little bit, and after much prayer and counsel I feel like this is the right time to tell you that the show is moving in another direction for its tenth season and I will not be returning as cohost next year," she said on the air.

"That's shocking to me," interrupted Joy Behar, prompting Jones Reynolds to link hands with her cohosts.

As for where she'll go next Jones Reynolds said, "I'm not sure what the future holds, but I'm absolutely sure who holds the future."

The show's creator, Barbara Walters, wrapped up the discussion by saying, "It is a new chapter for Star. It will be a new chapter for The View in the fall."

So why is Jones Reynolds leaving? Contrary to speculation that she's unhappy about the upcoming addition of Rosie O'Donnell – one of her most vocal critics – to the show this fall, she reveals exclusively in this week's PEOPLE magazine that the departure was not her choice.

"What you don't know is that my contract was not renewed for the tenth season," she tells PEOPLE. "I feel like I was fired." She adds that she was told her contract wouldn't be renewed just days before news leaked that O'Donnell would be joining The View.

Jones Reynolds, 44, was part of the original lineup with Meredith Vieira (who has already departed to replace Katie Couric on the Today show), Behar and Walters.

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I read another interview where Star said "She FEELS like she was fired" ....straight from the horses mouth. Which means, she was pushed out, cause she's a pain in the ass to work with. But not fired. She just knew with Rosie coming aboard, she wouldn't be queen bee bitch. HAHA! She couldn't handle that presure!

Also in this interview, Joy was quoted as saying to Star 'Who will I fight with?' *haha* Star said to her, 'Something tlls me you'll have someone to fight with.'



Edit: This will now free up Stars schedule so she can 'design' hideous shoes for Payless Full Time!!!



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ooooh, Perez says her contract wasn't renewed.....so basically, bye bye!

*heh*

It was painfully obvious that they hated her guts on the View. Especially between Star and Joy Behar.

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I wonder if she'll be "nice" Rosie from her old show or mean bull-dyke Rosie ala Horatio Sanz. I'm hoping for the meany!