She remembers! Joy Behar took a brief hiatus from hosting The View after being fired in 2013 — and she hasn’t forgotten what went down.
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Suzanne Somers is revealing she passed on an opportunity to join Barbara Walters when first aired, but she claims two reasons kept her away from the now-iconic daytime talk show.During a conversation with David Yontef on his podcast, the star said she was «originally asked to be on the original with Barbara Walters — and whoever else — and I turned it down.» Walters, the late legendary journalist who created, led the original panel that was also comprised of Joy Behar, Meredith Vieira, Star Jones and Debbie Matenopoulos. premiered on ABC in 1997 and while there have been a number of co-hosts since the original panel premiered, the show has more than endured. It's become one of the preeminent shows by being fervently unafraid to tackle sensitive subjects and enter the political and social discourse. «Everyone said, 'Why would you turn that down? It's a national show,'» Sommers continued on the podcast. «I said, first of all, I'd have to live in New York and I don't want to live in New York.
I like the weather down here, the vibe down here. I said, secondly, I don't do well vying for time. And there, you gotta interrupt and butt in and butt out.
It's just not my personality. So, I walked away from that and I never looked back.»Somers actually hosted her own eponymous daytime talk show in 1994, though it was short-lived as it lasted only one season. would launch on Aug.
11, 1997, and Somers' other big sitcom,, aired the season 6 finale on ABC just four days later. The series would later move to CBS, where it aired its seventh and final season.After that sitcom, Somers would go on to co-host a reboot of on CBS with Peter Funt. Somers hosted until 2000, before the series moved to PAX-TV, which is now the Ion Television
.She remembers! Joy Behar took a brief hiatus from hosting The View after being fired in 2013 — and she hasn’t forgotten what went down.
Whoopi Goldberg is not happy where society is at right now.
Melissa McCarthy is opening up about her refusal to watch “Gilmore Girls” in her home despite the special place it holds in her heart.
Melissa McCarthy loved her time in Stars Hollow, but she's not always keen to return to her role on, especially not in her own house.In a preview clip of her upcoming interview with Willie Geist on, the star reflects on her time on the Amy Sherman-Palladino hit mother-daughter comedy and shares why she's never watched it with her own daughter.McCarthy — who played Sookie St. James, the clumsy chef and best friend to Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) on the hit series — is mom to 16-year-old daughter Vivian and 13-year-old daughter Georgette Falcone, whom she shares with husband Ben Falcone.While speaking with Geist, McCarthy notes that she's only ever watched the pilot of with Vivian once.«I watched it with Vivian once, my oldest, and we watched the pilot...and I was watching her watch it.
Suzanne Somers’ Palm Springs pad is back on the market, with a $12.9 million asking price.
Matt Damon is working with Zoe Saldana for Stella Artois' new Let's Do Dinner campaign, but he had the chance to team up with her a long time ago. The 52-year-old actor was offered the lead role in James Cameron's 2009 film , where he would have starred alongside Saldana and would have earned around $250 million. The role instead went to Sam Worthington, who played Jake Sully, while Saldana portrayed Neytiri. The big-budget movie follows a paraplegic Marine (Worthington) dispatched to the moon Pandora, where Neytiri resides, for a unique mission.
Michael J. Fox made an appearance on The View where he came face-to-face with Whoopi Goldberg and told her he regretted not working with her on Ghost.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Black Flies,” a movie that keeps working to get high on its own intensity, Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan play paramedics who spend their nights driving through hell (I mean, Brooklyn). There are countless shots of the two in their EMS van, riding along under the tracks of an overhead subway train — the exact kind of grungy Brooklyn boulevard that Popeye Doyle went smashing through in the famous “French Connection” car/subway chase. As Rut (Penn) and Cross (Sheridan) patrol the borough neighborhood of Brownsville, one of the poorest and most crime-ridden sections of New York City, those overheard tracks become part of the film’s meticulously oppressive visual design. The two have so little breathing room they can barely see the sky. After a while, though, you start to think: Don’t these guys everdrive down a side street? Like everything else in “Black Flies,” those subway tracks are stylish signifiers of doom that are a little too in-your-face.
Paula Abdul opted out of being a Housewife. ET’s Brice Sander spoke with the 60-year-old star at the fifth annual Vanderpump Dog Foundation gala in Beverly Hills, and she revealed why she turned down the chance to appear in the hit Bravo franchise.
Paula Abdul opted out of being a Housewife. ET's Brice Sander spoke with the 60-year-old star at the fifth annual Vanderpump Dog Foundation gala in Beverly Hills, and she revealed why she turned down the chance to appear in the hit Bravo franchise.«I've been humbled,» Abdul said of how she felt about being asked to join.
Whoopi Goldberg is questioning Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s recounting of their car chase in New York City earlier this week.
Jane Fonda just dropped a Hollywood bombshell. The 85-year-old actress didn’t hold back while a guest on Monday's episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen were on the Bravo show promoting Book Club: The Next Chapter, and Fonda was selected to play Plead the Fifth, a game where contestants are asked three questions and you can only pass on one. The two-time Academy Award winner was asked by Cohen, «Name one man in Hollywood who tried to pick you up once that you turned down.»Without much hesitation, Fonda responded, «The French director René Clément.»Clément directed Fonda in the 1964 French mystery–thriller, Joy House.
Reba McEntire couldn't be more excited to be officially joining as a season 24 coach!NBC announced on Monday that the country music legend will officially be stepping in for departing coach Blake Shelton for the next season of the long-running singing competition, set to premiere this fall.Reba will draw from her iconic career as she shares her expertise with hopeful up-and-comers, joining veteran coach John Legend and returning coaches Niall Horan and Gwen Stefani.The news comes after Reba served as the celebrity Mega Mentor for season 23, advising Blake Shelton and his fellow coaches -- Kelly Clarkson and newcomers Niall and Chance the Rapper -- and their team members ahead of the Knockout Rounds. ET's Cassie DiLaura spoke with Reba at live semifinals on Monday night, where the singer and actress shared why now was the «perfect» time for her to join the show — after turning it down when was first in development in 2011.«The first time I ever heard of I saw the tape from Holland's [version of the show],» she recalled. «They asked me to do it, and I turned it down.»«But I think timing is everything,» Reba added.
Meadow Walker‘s cameo in “Fast X” truly incorporates whateveryone knew and loved about Paul Walker by exuding humbleness, just one of the many redeeming qualities that exemplified her late father.
Prince turned down the eccentric role of Ruby Rhod in the film The Fifth Element.During his appearance on The View, Tucker shared the pop icon’s reason for rejecting the role in the 1997 Luc Besson-directed sci-fi film. The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg mentioned the film was one of her favorites and praised the actor for his performance.
Meadow Walker's cameo in truly incorporates whateveryone knew and loved about Paul Walker by exuding humbleness, just one of the many redeeming qualities that exemplified her late father.Speaking to ET's Nischelle Turner at the premiere in Rome, the 24-year-old model-turned-actress spoke about the significance of the cameo, how the family truly has become her family and how the role came about. On Thursday, Meadow on shared a photo of herself captured on a set monitor in a glimpse of her cameo in the Louis Leterrier-directed film.Meadow was only a year old when her father starred in the first installment, but it's not until the penultimate installment (the franchise is ending with the 11th and final installment) that she makes her own appearance, albeit low-key, and that's by design, because that's how Paul would have wanted it.«I've always thought about honoring my dad [in a film] just because it's such a big part of his life and my life,» Meadow tells ET.
Suzanne Somers is looking back at turning down a co-hosting job on The View.
Suzanne Somers passed on a big opportunity.
Jennifer Lopez revealed the role her and husband Ben Affleck’s height difference plays in their relationship.
Ghosted with Chris Evans. The Apple TV+ film sees Evans play a down-on-his-luck guy named Cole, who falls head over heels for secret agent Sadie (de Armas). However, before they can organise a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.