The View has been on since 1997 thanks to Barbara Walters, but so it turns out, the talk show — known for its drama and chaos — has a creator who was far from friendly on set!
Huffington Post shared a never-before-read excerpt of Ramin Setoodeh’sLadies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View, and shared that Barbara “held a tight grip on the show, but was also deeply egomaniacal and threatened by women who are more popular.”
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According to the book — coming out April 2 — Barbara allegedly “actively participated in undermining current and former co-hosts by leaking embarrassing information to the press.”
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One instance was when Barbara received a copy of Rosie O’Donnell’s book Celebrity Detox when they weren’t on speaking terms at the time. Barbara wasn’t portrayed well in the book, so she allegedly angrily took the book to The New York Post to leak the publication.
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In 2007, Post published a piece on her book, writing, "Hitting the shelves October 2, the book is a Freudian frolic down memory lane that lays bare O'Donnell's man-hating and mummy-hungry adult ways, while revealing clues to a secret trauma from her troubled Long Island childhood, two shrinks say."
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The new book also reveals how Barbara awkwardly made Jenny McCarthy change her clothes on The View multiple times!
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“If she didn’t agree with it, or it didn’t complement her outfit, I had to change,” Jenny, 46, wrote in an excerpt from the tell-all publication.
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“I’ve never seen a woman yell like that before until I worked with Barbara Walters,” she added. “I was going to work crying. I couldn’t be myself,” Jenny confessed. “My fans were telling me, ‘Where’s Jenny? They aren’t letting you be you.’”
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The explosive book unveils more than just Barbara’s bizarre attitude. Specifically, Rosie O’Donnell claims Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a “
little bit gay” and
Whoopi Goldberg was "as mean as anyone has ever been" to her on TV...
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According to the book — coming out April 2 — Barbara allegedly “actively participated in undermining current and former co-hosts by leaking embarrassing information to the press.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
One instance was when Barbara received a copy of Rosie O’Donnell’s book Celebrity Detox when they weren’t on speaking terms at the time. Barbara wasn’t portrayed well in the book, so she allegedly angrily took the book to The New York Post to leak the publication.
Photo credit: Getty Images
In 2007, Post published a piece on her book, writing, "Hitting the shelves October 2, the book is a Freudian frolic down memory lane that lays bare O'Donnell's man-hating and mummy-hungry adult ways, while revealing clues to a secret trauma from her troubled Long Island childhood, two shrinks say."
Photo credit: Getty Images
The new book also reveals how Barbara awkwardly made Jenny McCarthy change her clothes on The View multiple times!
Photo credit: Getty Images
“If she didn’t agree with it, or it didn’t complement her outfit, I had to change,” Jenny, 46, wrote in an excerpt from the tell-all publication.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“I’ve never seen a woman yell like that before until I worked with Barbara Walters,” she added. “I was going to work crying. I couldn’t be myself,” Jenny confessed. “My fans were telling me, ‘Where’s Jenny? They aren’t letting you be you.’”
Photo credit: Getty Images
The explosive book unveils more than just Barbara’s bizarre attitude. Specifically, Rosie O’Donnell claims Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a “
little bit gay” and
Whoopi Goldberg was "as mean as anyone has ever been" to her on TV...
Photo credit: Getty Images
