Star Jones Writing Novel About Daytime Talk Show Revenge

Star Jones may be using fiction to get back at Barbara Walters and her fellow co-hosts of "The View."

Page Six reports that Jones, the lawyer-turned-TV-host, will write a novel about female hosts of a daytime talk show.

The novel, to be published by Gallery Books, will be about fictional TV show "The Lunch Club" and its hosts. In the book, Page Six reports, the hosts "learn that a former colleague -- who departed under mysterious circumstances, and is privy to all their backstage secrets -- is coming back with a splash."

Jones, who has described her co-hosts as "hateful," left "The View" in 2006 after her contract was not renewed — and it wasn't pretty.

Walters has said that she objected to Jones' over-promotion of her wedding on "The VIew" in an attempt to get things paid for, and also that she and her co-hosts were forced to lie after Jones got gastric bypass surgery but claimed to have lost weight through portion control and pilates.

After Walters' memoir came out in 2008 with these details, Jones released a statement damning Walters as an "adulterer...in the sunset of her life."

"While this novel will be dishy, it will be a work of fiction," Jones says.

An insider added to Page Six, "There will be tales in the book which will leave readers wondering if they are based on real events and characters. It's being carefully vetted by lawyers."

Comments

[houston1]

04:55 PM on 06/14/2010

Star, from where I sit, you let that little job go to your head, like the new girl Sherri is now doing. On the other hand you were used, just like the new girl Sherri is being used. Well that's what I see, but then agian, maybe I'm not seeing clearly.

[jojobinx]

07:29 PM on 06/13/2010

I would rather put needles in my eyes.

[Imzadi]

07:14 AM on 06/14/2010

ROTFLMAO!!!

[trebuchet1066]

09:31 AM on 06/13/2010

Whatsamatta Star, no publicity for awhile? Why don't you go back to makin' an honest (?) living practicing law. Apparently you were a bust on "The View" (as a woman, I can't stand listening to any of 'em but Whoopie & even she get's on my last nerve about 15 minutes into the show) & you weren't so successful as a wife. A review of your career as an asst DA reveals you were pretty successful in court. Why don't you go back to doing that. Go prosecute some murderers, rapists & bangers-you'd feel better about yourself, & we'd forget about your God-awful foray into "shew business". And just so you know: we know Baba Wawa had affairs (haven't many of us & I'm not passing judgement here), Elizabeth Hasselbeck DOES NOT rant for all Republican women, women under 40, or uneducated, nearly illiterate women married to bone-headed football players, Joy Behar is mean & sounds like a braying mule, Rosie O'Donnell doesn't speak for all Lesbian women and she really sounds mean-spirited & last but not least, what the heck does it say about any show when WHOOPIE GOLDBERG IS the voice of reason. Star, Etienne, Darling, go back to the law, You went to the U of H Law Center, make us proud, don't make us cringe (anymore).

[houston1]

04:58 PM on 06/14/2010

What category of the population does Sherri Shepherd speak for, you left her out?

[lmab]

08:47 AM on 06/13/2010

Babara is fair game. The woman's made a career out of exploiting others, just like Oprah.

[Laplase75]

03:48 PM on 06/13/2010

Come on now. Barbara is 10 steps above Oprah in the exploitation business.

[Tennys Daughter]

08:56 PM on 06/14/2010

There is no hoe like an old hoe. That is Barbara Walter's legacy.

[farmilyman]

06:40 AM on 06/13/2010

Who are the losers that buy and read these kind of novels?

[Jetro]

02:13 AM on 06/13/2010

Is Star Jones still around and still licking her self-inflicted wounds? Who wants to read a book of hate about a show she did not create but wanted to hijack? If this woman wants to poison your mind go for big doses of the joi de vivre of Whoopi and the women of the View.

[catbite]

10:30 PM on 06/12/2010

Not a nice thing to do. Move on, Star.

[Imzadi]

07:15 AM on 06/14/2010

It seems the thinner she got, the more angry she became... IMHO.

[Tara James]

09:05 AM on 06/12/2010

I want to thank those of you who managed to give your opinions about star and her behavior without bringing negativity about her weight into it.

[Leniere Miley]

07:50 PM on 06/11/2010

She needs to be thanking Barbara Walters instead of trying to get revenge. If not for the View, she would still be on Court TV, single and about 9200lbs. I wonder if they'll be a character who creates a spectacle by turning her impending wedding into a corporate event. I'm sure those folks want their money back now.

[Justdontgetit]

04:12 PM on 06/11/2010

Another book I won't be buying. Not even from a yard sale.

[OnlyIfIHaveTo]

03:52 PM on 06/11/2010

Incredible. Large or small, she is just as annoying,

[Jetro]

03:47 PM on 06/11/2010

Is Star Jones still around and still licking her self-inflicted wounds? Who wants to read a book of hate about a show she did not create but wanted to hijack? If this woman wants to poison your mind go for big doses of the joi de vivre of Whoopi and the women of the View.

[Miketou]

03:06 PM on 06/11/2010

She might as well write a book. She can't seem to hold a job. Hopefully the book will have an extremely overweight character with an ego to match and a sprinkling of narcissism.

[ChiGuy]

02:07 PM on 06/11/2010

Greedy, materialistic, and the most unjustifiablly large ego in the business.

[nini516]

02:01 PM on 06/11/2010

Star, the best revenge is being happy and successful, not tearing down others to bring yourself up.
That's just tacky. Get over it, move on. Lift people up instead, and stop whining and complaining, it's very unattractive!!