THERE may soon be less of Star Jones to pass around. Spies say the corpulent commentator of "The View" is going to get gastric bypass surgery, which is now commonplace among portly celebs. Jones, who has battled her weight for years, has finally bit the bullet and hopes to shed the pounds like Al Roker and Carnie Wilson. Talk is that Barbara Walters will document the weight loss for an ABC special, but Walters' rep denied this. A rep for Jones snapped: "I don't know. I don't comment on my stars' personal lives."
If only she could do something surgically about her big mouth!
Knowing how much Hillary cares about the "little people" ...
HILLARY Clinton's memoir "Living History" earned the junior Senator an $8 million advance, but some say it cost 75 employees at Simon & Schuster their jobs. Just weeks after S&S published Clinton's autobio, the publisher laid off 75 employees. A company rep says "there's no connection" between Clinton's fat payday and the mass layoffs, but the New York Press begs to differ. The paper points out that even if Clinton manages to sell 1.5 million copies - 1.2 million have been sold since June 9 and sales are slipping rapidly - the publisher can't possibly make back the money it lavished on her. Of course, S&S can dole out whatever obscene sums it wants, but, the paper notes, it "should be known that the result of the overpayment . . . is that 75 men and women no longer have jobs." Page Six
A chubby Queens woman hacked her mother-in-law to death with a meat cleaver after the older woman refused to serve her rice with dinner because it's too fattening, authorities said yesterday. full story