A federal judge in Massachusetts has dismissed a lawsuit accusing The View’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck of plagiarism, The Boston Herald reports.
A federal lawsuit filed last June accused the conservative daytime commentator of lifting content from a book written by self-published Cape Cod author Susan Hassett on the digestive disorder celiac disease. Hasselbeck’s book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, was featured on several best-seller lists this year.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro dismissed the lawsuit last week after Hassett’s attorney declined to pursue it due to lack of evidence.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned from maternity leave and took her place at the table for her first day on The View on Monday — but gabby conservative returned with a little more than expected.
The chatfest co-host came armed with a photo of her newborn son Isaiah for the rest of the hens to coo over, but that wasn’t the picture that caused a controversy.
When sending out a different picture of her new son to family and friends, Elisabeth was horrified to realize she was showing the clan more than she bargained for. “You know when your baby smiles for the first time — I reach for the iPhone and take the photo. No wonder why he is smiling — because my nipple is in the photo!” she explained.
“It’s worse than drunk dialing. It’s embarrassing.”
Isaiah is Elisabeth’s third child with husband Tim. The couple also the parents of 4-year-old daughter Grace and son Taylor, born last year.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck will return to The View on Oct. 19, ABC confirmed Wednesday.
Drats!!
The conservative — and often controversial chatterbox — took maternity leave from ABC’s feminine gabfest two days before giving birth to her third child, Isaiah Timothy, with NFL player husband Tim Hasselbeck on Aug. 9. Elisabeth’s return ends more than a month of appearances from celebrity guest hosts, including La Toya Jackson, Kate Gosselin, and Heidi Montag.
“I’ve lost my political opposite,” said co-host Joy Behar.
“The other people were nice, but they weren’t her,” Whoopi Goldberg added.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck gave birth to her third child in a New York City hospital on Sunday afternoon. Isaiah Timothy is the second son for Elisabeth and former NFL player Tim Hasselbeck.
The Hasselbecks two older children include daughter Grace Elisabeth, 4, and Taylor Thomas, who is 20 months old.
Isaiah weighed in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces.
“Elisabeth and Isaiah are doing great,” Tim reports.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck says a claim that she plagiarized parts of her best-selling diet book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, is “without merit.”
“I just want to assure you the allegations are without merit and are being handled appropriately,” the co-host of ABC’s The View said in a brief 20 second statement before the show’s first break on Wednesday morning.
In a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts Monday, Susan Hassett, a self-published author from Cape Cod, alleges that Hasselbeck lifted content from her book on celiac disease “word for word” and used them in The G-Diet, published last month.
Hassett says she sent the former Survivor contestant her book as a courtesy after Hasselbeck disclosed she also has the digestive disorder.
The lawsuit also alleges that the books have a similar organization and chapter format.
Another shining example of America’s tendency to reward bigots with platforms to spew their tomfoolery……
Last year, conservative right-winger Elisabeth Hasselbeck hit back at tabloid reports that she was leaving the ladies of The View for greener pastures at the more Republican-friendly FOX News Channel. These days, the pregnant mother of two is boo-hooing that series creator Babs Walters is trying to boot her from the buzzworthy daytime talk show — and you’ll never guess the name being tossed around as her possible replacement.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she’s fine after being hit by a bike while trying to hail a cab from in Manhattan on Tuesday.
The pregnant star of ABC’s The View, 31, was in a collision with a “delivery bike.”
“I text my husband ‘got hit by a bike’ and then tweeted ‘got hit by a bike’ just in case somebody found me passed out somewhere,” Elizabeth told her co-hosts on Wednesday’s show.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck, resident right-winger of The View, lit into Ashley Judd on Thursday, calling the actress out of line for spearheading a campaign to stop Governor Sarah Palin’s government policy sanctioning the hunting and aerial killing of bears and wolves in Alaksa.
