~ It’s Not Easy Being Star Jones 2.0 ~

It’s Not Easy Being Star Jones 2.0

It took just one day for Barbara Walters to replace Star Jones —
temporarily, at least. Today the ladies brought out Renee Elise
Goldsberry, who’s kind of like Jones but better: still black, merely
plays a lawyer on One Life to Live, and is soup-thin rather than
soup-pooping-thin. It’s Goldsberry’s third time hosting the show, but
her first time acting as the minority glue that’s holding the place
together. It’s also the first time co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck didn’t
look scared for her life.

Faux Star Replaces Star
Posted Jun 29th 2006 11:36AM by TMZ Staff

It didn't take long for Barbara Walters to find Star 2.0.

On this morning's "The View", Barbara, Joy Behar, and Elisabeth
Hasselbeck strode out onto the stage with an attractive, slender
African American woman who took a seat that wasn't even cold yet.

The Star-alike is Renee Elise Goldsberry, who, ironically enough,
isn't a lawyer, but plays one on TV. Goldsberry's an actress on the
soap "One Life to Live," whose character, according to her online bio,
is "a tough-as-nails defense attorney with a compassionate heart" (The
compassionate heart thing is kind of a left turn for attorneys on "The
View."). Goldsberry begins her bio by saying she "gives all glory to
God for being the author of her biography," not un-reminiscent of the
kind of pronouncement Star was wont to make.

The show went on as usual with no reference to Barbara vs. the fired
Star, except when Goldsberry said she "wasn't a lawyer," and wasn't
going to get "in the middle of things." Goldsberry added that she just
happened to "have nothing else to do" when she was asked to guest host
(She has hosted twice before earlier this year).

But there were signs that the ghost of Star was haunting the halls,
when the audio went completely out. Barbara blamed it on "global
warming." Riiiiight.

trijcomm...

Umm, note to Barbara -- nobody cares.