I wouldn't watch this in a million years, but it's funny to read about:
.... Since Walters’s retirement last May, there had been the mystifying departure of Bill Geddie, the show’s longtime executive producer. There was the exit of his number two, also last summer, along with the sudden departure of two co-hosts, Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd. Rosie O’Donnell was rehired in July, in an attempt to boost sagging ratings. But problems only seemed to get worse. There was the screaming match between O’Donnell and a senior producer that was so intense that staff had to physically separate the women. There were the reports that Rosie Perez had broken down in tears backstage, rumors that Whoopi Goldberg had ordered that the senior ABC executive in charge of The View was not to speak to her, or even approach her. And the persistent rumors of a power struggle between Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg that last September, just two weeks into the season, erupted in a blowup between the two stars in front of the studio audience.
During a commercial break, O’Donnell took the microphone and began complaining that Goldberg had cut her off and “hurt my feelings.” Goldberg explained that they’d run out of time, but O’Donnell did not know it because she refused to wear an earpiece on air. O’Donnell persisted. “This isn’t the time for this, Rosie,” replied Goldberg, according to the Daily Mail. But O’Donnell continued to vent, and Goldberg snapped. “Fuck it, I told you to leave it alone and you just don’t want to listen,” she shouted, as the audience sat in stunned silence. “If you want to go there, Rosie, I will, dammit. I’m really sick of your shit.” Five months later, in mid-February, O’Donnell abruptly left the show.
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