Star Jones Responds to Barbara Walters' Memoir
BY USMAGAZINE.COM
May 7, 2008, 9:55 am PDT
celebs: Barbara Walters Star Jones Reynolds
BY USMAGAZINE.COM
May 7, 2008, 9:55 am PDT
celebs: Barbara Walters Star Jones Reynolds
Star Jones is speaking out against Barbara Walters for including her in her new memoir, "Audition."
In the book, Walters claims Jones forced her to lie about her gastric bypass surgery on "The View." Walters also reveals that she had an affair with then-married Senator Edward Brooke during the 1970s.
Usmagazine.com caught up with Jones (who recently split from husband Al Reynolds) as she left a tennis workout in NYC Wednesday.
"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," Jones told Us. "It speaks to her true character."
OK. Can we back up a bit?
First of all, Star Jones is a publicity hog and I'm sure it is killing her that Barbara is getting a bunch of mileage out of the book.
2nd, Star is the one who pimped out her wedding by getting companies to donate their services and merchandise in return for Star talking about them and promoting them. So why is she upset with Barbara for using her name in the book to sell books?
3rd, I thought Star was going into quasi-seclusion since she is going through a divorce and doesn't want a bunch of attention?
"Pot. I'd like to introduce you to Kettle. Oh, and have you met Cauldron?"
WORD OF THE DAY:
Main Entry: hyp·o·crite
Pronunciation: \ˈhi-pə-ˌkrit\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English ypocrite, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokritēs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai
Date: 13th century
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
— hypocrite adjective
In the book, Walters claims Jones forced her to lie about her gastric bypass surgery on "The View." Walters also reveals that she had an affair with then-married Senator Edward Brooke during the 1970s.
Usmagazine.com caught up with Jones (who recently split from husband Al Reynolds) as she left a tennis workout in NYC Wednesday.
"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," Jones told Us. "It speaks to her true character."
OK. Can we back up a bit?
First of all, Star Jones is a publicity hog and I'm sure it is killing her that Barbara is getting a bunch of mileage out of the book.
2nd, Star is the one who pimped out her wedding by getting companies to donate their services and merchandise in return for Star talking about them and promoting them. So why is she upset with Barbara for using her name in the book to sell books?
3rd, I thought Star was going into quasi-seclusion since she is going through a divorce and doesn't want a bunch of attention?
"Pot. I'd like to introduce you to Kettle. Oh, and have you met Cauldron?"
WORD OF THE DAY:
Main Entry: hyp·o·crite
Pronunciation: \ˈhi-pə-ˌkrit\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English ypocrite, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokritēs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai
Date: 13th century
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
— hypocrite adjective
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3 comments:
I think you missed #3 on the definition. My dictionary say STAR.
I'm on Team Barbara.
Barbara Walter's life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she's written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is ""My Stroke of Insight"" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor's book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don't have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. ""I want what she's having"", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!
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