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Star Jones responded to Barbara Walters allegations about her in her new book. In the book, Walters said she and her other View cohosts were forced to lie about Jones’ gastric bypass surgery which made Walters uncomfortable.
But Jones responded by questioning Walters’ character. Walters admitted in her book and on Oprah yesterday that she had a three-year affair with a married man who happened to be black. Well I Googled the man that Barbara had the affair with and it turns out he’s biracial.
Not that it matters, but he looks more white than black to me, so why not call him what he is which is mixed or biracial?
In an interview with USmagazine.com, Star Jones said of Barbara:
“It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book,” Jones told Us. “It speaks to her true character.” (Source)
How did Barb speak bad about Star. Is that how her weight loss situation played out on TV. She didnt admit it & neither did the co-hosts; more than likely b/c Star ask them not to speak on it.
^^ That is how…..^^
@TT. The point is that Star said she was making healthy food choices and doing pilates to lose the weight. She would never fess up about having gastric surgery. All the cast members knew about it and never mentioned it per Stars request.
Star does have a point!!!!
I side with Star because one, Barbs had an affair with a married man for 3 years.Versus that with Star’s bypass which one sounds publicity worth?Got to question Barbara’s character before I say anything bad about Star.
Why is Babs talking now. She held a secret this long.
I side with Star also. I was watching Barbara on Oprah yesterday and i couldn’t believe how she was just talking about her affair AFTER ALL THIS TIME so bluntly like she did nothing wrong. She also went on to say she was no mistress or as we call it jump off………..because he was with her most of the times except holidays……..news flash Barb you were the jump off…….i mean she went on national tv and was justifying what she did……….as Star stated she is hurting an innocent family by coming out with this now and to even name the man…….DAMN……that was cold…. I wonder what the wife/ex wife and kids think about what their father was doing…………But Star has a point she used people for her own good………BUT THIS IS HOLLYWIERD lol
BUT ON SIDE NOTE STAR HURT PEOPLE TO…..BY MAKING OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE THINK THEY CAN LOOSE ALL THEM DAMN POUNDS THAT FAST WITH PROPER DIETING………..GOT DAMN LIAR
PEOPLE know damn well you can’t lose weight that fast (that’s a big flashing light), the prime example was Oprah when she lost all that weight and it came right back.Nobody is foolish to believe Star lost weight by proper dieting in a short amount of time.Blind people can see through that.
2 wrongs don’t make a right. But most of us knew of Stars over the top celebritizm. Barbra makes herself look like a home wrecker. Did she not think before she wrote the book. For all these years she IS the pioneer of woman journalist and she has always had class and grace. Is she getting near to meeting her maker and trying to get into heaven. lol Is this her way of making ammends of some sort? If it is I give her a F-
I’ve not heard of nan “overweight” person say they were following Star’s exercise/diet plan. Most know that it takes ten times the effort to lose as it does to eat it. So her omission was basically to keep folks out of her business. She wasn’t hurting anyone but herself, IMO.
Barbara is probably entering senility and LOL @ Star for gettin in that azz!
I dont like the way Star looks but she is not to be played with. She shuts everybody down lol.
everyone must have missed the part about barb discussing this w/ the guy beforehand…being his mistress was bogus, however this happened many decades ago (not last week)…i doubt this is breaking up a happy home…
it’s not like she only put star on blast, she put herself on blast big time! if i read the book (which i won’t be), i would be more interested in reading about the affair than star’s surgery (which we all knew about anyway)…
On another note, if somebody, ANYBODY, asks me about another person’s well-being–whether it be about how “real” their hair is, or how the weight was lost–I say, “I wouldn’t know ask Such-N-Such.” Folks always trying to make other people’s business theirs.
I think it is Star’s decision to keep business her business, and Barbara jumping on the “tell-all book” bandwagon is ridiculous. All in the pursuit of the all-mighty dollar.
I agree with Star. Let it go. Anything to sell books. And I didn’t like Oprah making it seem like Barbra is brave for admitting her affair with a Black man. If shed done it back in the 70’s ok, but she’s admitting it now. When she’s in the sunset of her life (very snide remark Star.lolol). She’s doing it at a time when it cant harm her at all. That’s not bold. That’s just as cowardly as the initial act itself.
Does anyone really care what these two old biddies have to say about one another? Does Star really think she was fooling anyone with that diet and exercise bit? Why should her co-hosts be forced to lie about something so blatanly obvious?
There you go with that biracial mess again Sandra. Try as I might, I can’t find one drop of evidence that this man is biracial. As usual, I assume you are going off of his appearance despite the fact that this method of determining race rarely works for you. Not all light-skinned black people are biracial.
As for Barbara she has the right to tell her story if she wants to. The View is a big part of her story and Star became a notable character in that part of Barbara’s life due to all her shenanigans.
Gastric surgery is not news—we knew the damn deal BUT Babs was getting broke off as a side piece jump-off with a black dude – now that’s a headline. I can’t stop laughing. This is better than any story of the large headed Rhi.
And, apparently…. once you go Black, you CAN go back.
@Sandra
If he had ever gotten caught in the back woods of Alabama he would be a ni**a. And Star needs to sit down she lied about her diet and faked falling in love with a gay dude.
The funniest part was how Oprah nonchanlantly admited to having an affair with a married man too.
Oprah has admitted to that affair before.
I do wonder why Barbara is putting all her business out there now. She couldn’t need the money-that’s the usual reason. Star just loves to make everything about her. Like Babs whole book was about Stars diet/gastric bypass. Self centered ass.
I also have to agree with the poster that said all light skinned folks aren’t biracial. I’ve seen a picture of this man in the 70’s and he wasn’t this light. Some people get lighter with age.
It’s really nobody’s business how Star lost her weight and her cohosts were not at liberty to say jack shyt to anybody because it was NOT their business to tell! Star can say she lost the weight by walking from coast to coast everyday if she wanted to! Barbara Walters is an azz in my opinion cause who gives 2 shyts if she screwed a black man back in the day, and yes dude is black, and her old azz was a jump off!! She basically played herself by airing HER business on Oprah…I refused to watch her pompous azz on Oprah!
MissGauzzz Says:
It’s really nobody’s business how Star lost her weight and her cohosts were not at liberty to say jack shyt to anybody because it was NOT their business to tell!
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That may be true, but Star is the one who gave an explanatin for her weight loss which was a lie. And while it is no one’s business to reveal what she did her lying forced them to go along with the lie or reveal the truth. It was not fair of Star to put them in that position.
Well said Bird.
bloggergirlz Says:
everyone must have missed the part about barb discussing this w/ the guy beforehand…being his mistress was bogus, however this happened many decades ago (not last week)…i doubt this is breaking up a happy home…
it’s not like she only put star on blast, she put herself on blast big time! if i read the book (which i won’t be), i would be more interested in reading about the affair than star’s surgery (which we all knew about anyway)…
I KNEW SHE LET HIM KNOW BEFOREHAND, WHICH I THINK WAS ADMIRABLE OF HER. I AM SORRY BUT, ALOT OF PEOPLE ARE SIDING WITH STAR BECAUSE SHE IS A “SISTER.” I KNEW AS WELL AS OVER HALF OF AMERICA KNEW SHE HAD GASTRIC BYPASS, WHY LIE? BABS IS LETTING PEOPLE KNOW SHE ISN’T PERFECT, SHE FVCK UP JUST LIKE THE AVERAGE JANE. IT’S HER STORY TO TELL, BAD EXAMPLE BUT, WE LET SUPERHEAD TELL HER STORY TWICE, WHY CAN’T BABS TELL HERS?
@ LovelyLady
I agree. Oprah even jumped in there talking about how she also was with a married man and how she wasn’t a “mistress” meaning that the man didn’t take care of her. HUH? WHAT? Harpo and Babs are seriously loosing it!
*losing
lol
SHE THREW STAR AND ROSIE UNDER THE BUS FOR THE SAKE OF SALES OF THIS BOOK !!!! ANY TYPE OF MEDICAL TREATMENT INCLUDING MENTAL IS PRIVATE UNLESS THE PATIENT WANT TO EXPOSE THE TRUTH…..THE HAG SHOULDA TALKED ABOUT THE FACELIFTS AND OTHER “JOBS” SHE’S HAD INSTEAD OF OTHER PPL PRIVATE PROCEDURES AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
give it to her star!!!
and news flash gastric bypass is essentially forced portion control. bottom line to each his own and another woman’s MAN and BUSINESS is just that HERS!!!!
Nobody siding with Star because she a sister, people STILL think like that?Some of people are a hot trip and can’t read for anything even if Jesus saved you, I digress.I sided with Star because Barbs or whatever needed to get her character in check because she thinks she sit above the bar.F that.Talk about holding in Star secret (and it wasn’t even that big), this woman has more skeletons in her closet than the whole View cast together.She just want to be in the MIDDLE of the drama so she can speak on it and get PUBLICITY.Barb and the rest of this media is a game,a sham,a phony,[insert]
Star put herself into this situation. If she had told the truth from the start Barbara wouldn’t have put her on blast. If anyone showed lack of class it was her for asking her cast members to lie for her.
I think Barbara Walters has erased whatever respect she had in the broadcasting business with the release of this “smutty” book. She has interviewed so many celebrities and politicians and that alone would have made an amazing book to write about. Why does she feel the need to put all this scandalous stuff in this book where she is revealing secrets not only about her but about others as well. I honestly do not consider her a credible source any longer. Star’s weight issue is her business. As a friend and coworker if she asked them not to divulge her business then they should have respected that. But I guess selling books and looking like a hypocrite is all worth it. Congrats Barbara.
You guys are right, Star’s business is her business. IMO….She crossed the line though when she asked them to go along with her lie. They sat there day in day out on national tv listening to her talk about pilates and portion control when they knew damn well she was lying. It’s one thing to ask your “friends” to keep a secret, but for her to ask co-workers knowing she would be talking about this issue to be dishonest was straight up wrong in my book.
I agree with most everybody here. Babs is just trying to sell her book. There is no way I would have an affair and then wait 30+ years(I’m assuming)to talk about it. At that point, you might as well take it to the grave. Star may have her faults, but she has never (to my knowledge) portrayed herself to being a homewrecker. All the ish she’s admitted to only affects her and that gay man she married.
What’s HILARIOUS is when Star said, “It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life…”
LMFAO! Star just went ahead and put one of that chick’s feet in the ground! Priceless
I love Oprah, but she was also a crackhead at one point in time and she’s had a baby.
Star made her statement as eloquently as possible. Maybe that was her ticket to get back in the game. Thanks Barbara you just put her career back on track. LOL
@prynsexxx:
You are absolutely right.
Bab’s is shirt for BABBLING old fool … go somewhere and sit down …with ya non talkin azz …
Anywhooo
Kudo’s for Star .. sunset years … priceless …. LOL
Maybe Barbara W. stated the man was black because he identifies himself as black.
Star gave it to her though. Checked her without even taking one step out of character. Good job Star
i dont’ see what barbara did that was so wrong here. Its a memoir, its about her life. people ask questions, she give answers. I don’t see how anythign barbara said was negative….its da friggin truth. She didn’t say anythign we didn’t already know.
Starr, just needs to go sit down. I stopped liking her azz years ago. way b4 she left the view. She wants to be a celeb, and she has that….now she needs to go sit down. Her behind didn’t have it in her to loose weight the hard way so she went for the quick fix, and wanted to act like she was doing portion controls….as if folks watching is stupid. That makes starr a liar and a fraud in my book….so w/e
And barb is promoting a book, so she is being asked questions. Why did supahead put dat stuff in her book?….and how many flock to read it huh
It’s funny how everyone says Stars business is her business and only her business. When it’s Beyonce/Rhianna or Tom Cruise it’s well their a celebrity and they chose that life where everyone has a right to know their business. Well I think Star made a choice and continues to make a choice of putting her business out there. She’ll only work as long as anyone gives a damn about her business. I think it was really hypocritical for her to sit there on THE VIEW and lie about her issues (while exposing everyone elses)and then make her co-hosts lie with her. She’s a liar that’s all there is to it. She even managed to lie to herself when she married a gay man.
Barbara didn’t expose her before she exposed herself. That would have been throwing her under the bus.
i bet that guy looked like a real brotha in his hay day!
i think star is still upset that she was outed as a liar and trying to cover up the gastric bypass as opposed to just admitting upfront when asked. ontop of all of that, she crossed barbara walters of all people. i dont understand why she’s suprised that she was black balled. come now. she hasnt had a good job since the view. i guess barbara walters has more pull than she thought.