The ladies of The View could use a lesson in sensitivity….and perhaps an educational field trip to their local Rape Crisis Center. Sofia Vergara — who plays Ed O’Neill’s Colombian trophy wife on ABC’s new hit show Modern Family — was on The View this morning, where she cracked a tacky joke about rape to the robust cackles of Babs and the Gang.
Sofia — who’s a deadringer for a 25-year-old — has an 18-year-old son. How is that possible? She was raped when she was thirteen. Just kidding! Get’cha! Yeah — we didn’t find it funny, either. But the girls thought it was a riot.
This isn’t the first time the chattiest women in daytime have revealed their utter inability to “get” the seriousness of rape. We all remember Whoopi’s famous defense of Roman Polanski’s drugging and stautory rape of a 13-year-old girl; apparently, it wasn’t “rape rape.”
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.
Tempers flared between the ladies of The View on Thursday morning as the gals cackled about Carrie Prejean’s controversial appearance on Larry King Live last night. In case you missed it, the former Miss California — and recently-outed amateur porn star — removed her microphone and threatened to walk off the show after Larry asked her why she settled a lawsuit with pageant organizers.
“Biblically-correct” former pageant winner Carrie Prejean has a tell-all memoir hitting booksellers’ shelves today. Ironically, the gay marriage conscientious objector is also the star of a sex tape (an “erotic video” of her diddling her catbag and shaking what Jesus gave her) that’s destined to land in your inbox any day now. So to promote both, Carrie is hitting the media rounds.
Check out what happened when the former Miss California came face-to-face with the ladies of The View on Tuesday.
Whoopi Goldberg was left shamefaced on The View Friday after she confused Lord of the Rings’ star Sir Ian McKellen with the wizard from the Harry Potter film franchise.
The actor who played Gandalf in the hit trilogy was a guest on the when host Whoopi asked: “Are you coming back in Harry Potter?”
Sir Ian, 70, closed his eyes, paused, and said: “I don’t play Dumbledore – I play ‘Lord of the Rings.’”
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.
Whoopi Goldberg has been branded a “rape apologist” for suggesting Roman Polanski’s sex with a 13 year old girl three decades ago was not “rape-rape”.
The director was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday and is currently fighting extradition to the US over his 1977 conviction for unlawful sex with a minor. Polanski admitted having sex with former model Samantha Gremier, the 13, at the Hollywood mansion of Jack Nicholson. The critically-acclaimed director fled the US before he was sentenced, claiming the judge in the case reneged on a plea bargain deal. He later settled in France. Read the rest of this entry »
The Hills’ Heidi Montag-Pratt will step in for Elisabeth Hasselbeck as guest host of The View next Thursday, Oct. 1, but it won’t be her first time on the ABC morning gabfest.
During an appearance last summer, Heidi and her then-boyfriend Spencer Pratt were chastised for their infamous onscreen antics on their MTV reality smash by co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who told them: “You better get yourselves together or you’re going to be in the street. You’re going to have to take responsibility. You’re too old now. Last year it was cute. Now you’re adults.”
With conservative chatterbox Elisabeth Hasselbeck still out on maternity leave, American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi is the latest star joining the round table for a guest co-hosting gig on The View, ABC News announced on Monday.
Kara will guest co-host the Emmy-winning daytime talk show, alongside regulars Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Sherri Shepherd, on October 15. The singer/songwriter/producer made her View debut following the American Idol finale last May. The appearance will be the first time Kara has co-hosted the show.
