Rosie O’Donnell has joined a growing list of celebrities moved by the story of Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle. Rosie wrote in a poem style of the woman who rose to overnight infamy after her soul-stirring performance of “I Dreamed A Dream” from the musical Les Miserables.
On Sunday, the outspoken former View moderator returned to her Rosie.com blog after a hiatus to rally behind the Scottish singer.
“Susan Boyle – once in a lifetime. Authentic real, the kind of tv we hardly see anymore in r pre packaged world.”
“Out she came, like Fiona in shrek, reminding us all how to shine inside,” Rosie wrote.
(Wait, did she just compare Susan to an ogre?)
Rosie added that she hopes Susan is not pressured into changing her looks.
“Susan boyle, a woman i hope never gets a make over, her brows forever bushy, reminding the world, where beauty lives.”
Mark your calendars for next Thursday and Friday, Feb. 26 and 27 when Rosie O’Donnell appears as a special guest host on The Tyra Banks Show.
Rosie will be appearing in the Lifetime Original Movie, America, on Saturday February 28th at 9:00 PM ET. She plays a psychiatrist who helps a sixteen year old foster boy.
Rosie O’Donnell says she won’t be attempting any more variety shows after the painful debut of her Rosie Live! special last week.
The NBC comedy program was watched by just 5 million people on Wednesday night.
In response to a question on her blog about whether she plans to produce more Rosie Live! shows in the future, the Emmy-winning former daytime host simply writes: “There will b no more. No ratings, bad reviews. yet still – a thrill 4 me.”
“I do love her,” Rosie O’Donnell says of former boss Barbara Walters on The TODAY Show Monday.
One former View hostess to another, Rosie Live star Rosie O’Donnell opens up about her ongoing tension with the women of ABC’s The View with TODAY correspondent Meredith Vieira.
“The fact that I hurt her is what hurts me,” Rosie says, “I do care about Barbara Walters.”
“I do the best I can, but I think there comes a point where she had had enough. I’m hard to take for some people. … I do love her. That’s the bottom line. Love is complicated.”
