It’s getting ugly between Barbara Walters and Star Jones.
Jones accuses her former “The View” co-host of revealing a long-ago affair with a married senator just to sell books.
“It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character,” Jones told Us Weekly magazine.
Jones also is ticked off about Walters’ revelation in her autobiography, “Audition,” that the women of “The View” were forced to cover up Jones’ gastric bypass surgery as she swiftly lost weight ahead of her wedding in 2004. Jones maintained at the time that she was eating less and doing Pilates.
“We lied for Star,” Walters told AP Radio on Friday. “She was our colleague. She didn’t want to discuss it, we didn’t force her to. Was that a mistake? I don’t know. … It was Star’s decision.”
Walters says she doesn’t want a public spat with Jones
“Star is going through a very difficult time right now, and I’m going to have very happy memories of how wonderful she was on the program,” Walters told AP Radio. “I don’t want to add to her difficulties.”
Jones is going through a divorce from banker Al Reynolds, whom she married in 2004.
Hulk Hogan’s son gets 8 months in slammer
The 17-year-old son of wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan will spend the next eight months in jail after pleading no contest Friday to causing a crash that left his best friend in need of lifetime medical care.
Nick Bollea was immediately led out of the courtroom in Clearwater, Fla., to begin his sentence. He cast a quick backward glance at his family, including his black bandanna-clad father. Then his tie and belt were removed before he was taken to the jail next door.
Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, testified on his son’s behalf, as did his estranged wife Linda and daughter Brooke. The clan, currently seen on TV in the VH1 reality show “Hogan Knows Best,” left the courtroom glumly after the verdict and did not comment.
‘Cyberspace’ author returns to home page
Sci-fi author William Gibson, the man who coined the term “cyberspace,” was given an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C.
If that sounds like an unlikely place to find the guy who came up with the term “Internet,” it’s because Gibson, 60, hasn’t seen the state since he was 5.
Over the years, Conway says, he has thought of South Carolina only in passing, usually when a customs officer asks where he was born.
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