Rosie fights last fight on 'The View' [ABC said Friday she won't be back on the show...]

AP via Yahoo ^ | 5/25/07 | DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

[Sub-Driver]

Rosie O'Donnell has fought her last fight at "The View." ABC said Friday she asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract at the daytime chatfest following her angry confrontation with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday. She was due to leave in mid-June.

It ended a colorful eight-month tenure for O'Donnell that lifted the show's ratings but no doubt caused heartburn for show creator Barbara Walters. O'Donnell feuded with Donald Trump and frequently had snippy exchanges with the more conservative Hasselbeck.

O'Donnell said last month she would be leaving because she could not agree to a new contract with ABC executives.

"Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at `The View,'" Walters said. "I am most appreciative. Our close and affectionate relationship will not change."

In a statement, O'Donnell said that "it's been an amazing year and I love all three women."

No one was feeling the love on Wednesday, when the argument with Hasselbeck began over O'Donnell's statement last week about the war: "655,000 Iraqi civilians have died. Who are the terrorists?"

Talk show critics accused O'Donnell of calling U.S. troops terrorists. She called Hasselbeck "cowardly" for not saying anything in response to the critics.

"Do not call me a coward, because No. 1, I sit here every single day, open my heart and tell people what I believe," Hasselbeck retorted, and their riveting exchange continued despite failed attempts by their co-hosts to cut to a commercial.

According to a New York Post report, O'Donnell's chief writer, Janette Barber, was allegedly led out of the building on Wednesday after she was caught drawing mustaches on photographs of Hasselbeck in "The View" studios. ABC executives didn't return repeated calls for questions on the incident Friday.

On Thursday O'Donnell had asked for a day off to celebrate her partner's birthday. "The View" aired a taped show on Friday.

On her Web site, O'Donnell posted a scrapbooklike video on Friday with pictures and news clippings of her tenure at "The View." Cyndi Lauper's "Sisters of Babylon" played in the background.

A day earlier, she posted messages on her Web site indicating she might not be back.

"When painting there is a point u must step away from the canvas as the work is done," she wrote. "Any more would take away."

[Sacajaweau]

Frankly, I thing the View may be coming to an end...and good riddance.

[Badeye]

I remember when Rosie first broke onto the entertainment scene. I loved her fresh comedic delivery, in the beginning. And I also remember her saying she thought entertainers were basically stuck up, spoiled and snotty, demanding all manner of goodies from a fawning public. Back then she swore she’d never be that kind of person.

So Rosie, LOOK IN THE MIRROR. YOU HAVE BECOME A SNOTTY, SPOILED, STUCK UP B*TCH. IN SPADES! Deal with it. GET HELP.

Same view here.

[Badeye]

Never saw it, except via clips when O’Donnell displayed her particular brand of stupidity.

[Sacajaweau]

Rosie got “Trumped” on. I feel so sorry for her....that she’s so stupid as to take on people like Trump and Selleck while living and promoting her wierd life style as quite proper. Arrogant BU***.

[swain_forkbeard]

Nice properties.

[juliej]

Ha ha! I forget to say “butt ugly”.

[Badeye]

(chuckle)

Her kids will never go hungry, thats evident.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

I have high regard for Elisabeth. And while I think that some of the clothes she wears are a little eccentric, I would certainly not say that they are sleazy. She is a strong conservative who actually does practice what she preaches. And generally, when she isn't pregnant, she shows even less, which by the way, isn't a terrible thing. She just happens to be one of those whose breasts inflate 3 times the size of "normal" women when she's pregnant. And unless she wears a tent to cover up, there ain't no way they're going to get some buttons over those babes.

[nmh]

She looks like a slut.

Conservative or not.

[Enchante]

"O'Donnell's chief writer, Janette Barber, was allegedly led out of the building on Wednesday after she was caught drawing mustaches on photographs of Hasselbeck in "The View" studios."

Talk about (pitiful) projection!!! Angry dykes should be drawing mustaches on each other, not on the lovely Elisabeth. I think that Rosie and anyone who gravitates to her orbit must be miserable, pitiful, pathetic people. fwiw, I once had to work with an angry man-hating bull-dyke very much like Rosie, and it was a ghastly experience even though I had already given my notice and was on my way out the door in a few weeks...... the worst few weeks of my life, almost!!