14 DAY TRIAL // Rosie O’Donnell was brought back on The View in the hope that some controversy would help improve dwindling ratings, while also breathing life into the old format. The change was promising at first, but it soon turned out that the lack of chemistry between Rosie and the other co-hosts was a ratings killer.
Plus, Rosie is rude. She’s too rude to remain on The View, insiders reveal for TMZ: she’s mean to the other 3 women and she’s even meaner to the staff, to the point where her presence on set ruins the mood for everyone else.
She won’t be back for another season, the spies claim. In fact, she’ll be lucky if she gets to complete this one.
Rosie thought she’d be “the moderator”
Ever since ABC confirmed that Rosie was coming back on The View and would join the only remaining co-host from the older format, Whoopi Goldberg, people started wondering about how this would affect the chemistry at the table, because it was a clear thing that Whoopi never really liked Rosie all that much.
Add to that the rumor that Rosie was actually being “groomed” as Barbara Walters’ replacement and thus would take over from her, over Whoopi, and you see why speculation about an upcoming feud was rampant.
According to this new report, Rosie too expected to be the biggest, toughest kid in the parking lot (of The View). She thought she was being brought back on to be made “the moderator,” aka the position now occupied by Whoopi, and she was “outraged” when she saw that this didn’t change as she had been led to believe.
Since then, since she realized that she would not get the lead position, Rosie “has been impossibly rude to members of the cast and crew, both on and off camera,” TMZ reports.
Rosie is depressed, no one can get through to her
When she’s not mean, Rosie seems “very depressed” and out of sorts. She doesn’t interact with anyone unless she has to because there’s a camera rolling, and all attempts to get through to her have had no result.
Moreover, producers and network bosses are blaming her for the unimpressive ratings and she knows this too well. The way things are today, Rosie might not get to see the end of the current season, let alone be called back for another one.
It seems that whatever plans ABC had of reviving The View by bringing in the loud-mouthed, opinionated Rosie fell flat. As the video below shows, she’s had a fair share of disagreements with the other ladies already, but unlike on previous occasions, this time, they did not translate into better ratings.
For the record, a rep for Rosie says that no one is blaming her for the bad ratings and that she’s not depressed. Assuming the above report was accurate, the publicist wouldn’t have confirmed it, just in case you were wondering.
