Posted on 06/25/2007 1:25:49 PM PDT by 300magnum
NEW YORK - Rosie O'Donnell says she's out of the running to replace Bob Barker as host of "The Price Is Right." O'Donnell, a superfan of the CBS game show, said on her blog Friday that she had a "nice lunch" with the show's producers.
Barker, 83, retired earlier this month after 35 years with the show, which is filmed in Los Angeles.
Although O'Donnell has said she would love to fill Barker's shoes, the 45-year-old comedian has changed her mind.
"Well, here's the thing: I don't really need a job," O'Donnell says in a video posted Sunday on her Web site. "I'm in a weird position. I don't need the money."
"So to get my entire family uprooted from their lives and move them across the country so that I can have a fantasy childhood indulgence, you know, job ... it just doesn't seem fair."
O'Donnell lives in Nyack, N.Y., near New York City, with her partner, Kelli, and their four children. She recently left ABC's "The View" after a heated on-air squabble with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
"You know, if they were able to do it in New York, it would be a different story," O'Donnell says. "But it looks like it's — ain't gonna happen."
Barker told reporters at the Daytime Emmy Awards he had "no doubt" that O'Donnell would make a fine host for the show.
But Barker told The Associated Press last week he never meant to endorse any potential host and has no role in choosing his replacement.
"The Price Is Right" is on hiatus until the new season starts in the fall.
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In other words they told her to ‘Kiss off!’
So...
They told her that she didn’t get the job, then.
...and the thousands of others.
It reminds me of Politicos that decide to “quit their job to spend more time with their families”.
IOW, “They didn’t want me”
she never was in.....tv game shows are chocked full of advertisers.Free name placement for free products
Too much dirt on O’ Donuts dildo for corporate do rey mi’s......
Exactly. Her little story about not needing the job or the money, of it not being fair to uproot the “family” (as if she cared) just seems pathetic.
“So to get my entire family uprooted from their lives and move them across the country so that I can have a fantasy childhood indulgence...”
Isn’t your whole life a fantasy childhood indulgence?
I’m out of the running for Prime Minister of England. I decided yesterday that the travel just isn’t worth it. If they would move the position over here, it would be a different story.
Sorry to disappoint everybody over there.
A mindless program with a dimwitted activist as host could simply not be a profitable endeavor.
GOOD!!!!!!
Are you talking about the View with Rosie or The Price is Right with Rosie?
She will replace Shamu instead.
‘zactly. I have decided not to accept the position of Queen of Firm Buttocked Men no matter how much they beg me.
Not until they get a bigger tank!
“She’s got bigger britches to fill.”
...until she demanded that they change the name to "The Dyke Is Left".
:)
The price is wrong, Bitch!!
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