Baba Wawa gets rid of Elisabeth Hasselbeck!!!
Yes! Let’s celebrate! How about putting an Asian on the show? And not one who likes to hear themselves speak like Lisa Ling?
The people have spoken. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the five cohorts of ABC’s daytime talk show The View, will not be returning to the couch next season, following hot on the footsteps of fellow cohost Joy Behar, a source tells Us Weekly.
According to the source, the show’s resident conservative voice is being ousted after market research revealed that she isn’t popular with TV audiences.
“The viewers they polled all said she was too extreme and right wing,” the insider tells Us. “People did not watch the show because of Elisabeth. So they told her yesterday her contract would not be renewed.”
How about too stupid and unworldy? I don’t like having last nights Fox report regurgitated on The View the next day!
When reached for comment, a rep for the show told Us in a statement: “Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a valued member of The View and has a long term contract.”
Hasselbeck, 35, joined the cast of the daytime talk show in November 2003 after guest-hosting the show following Lisa Ling’s departure in 2002.
She can thank her lucky stars she lasted that long. What else is she qualified for? Shoe design? Oh maybe she’ll be on one of the shows on the Fox Channel that no one watches!
THE BEST!!!
Did I call this?
Sayanora!!!
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving the desk at “The View” for the couch on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends.”
The news network said Tuesday that Hasselbeck will join co-anchors Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade on the three-hour morning show “Fox & Friends” in September. Wednesday will be her last day after a decade on “The View.”
Hasselbeck parlayed her popularity as a contestant on “Survivor” into a job on Barbara Walters’ ABC daytime show in 2003. During her decade on the show, she authored two cookbooks. She’s politically more conservative than her co-hosts on “The View,” which often led to some contentious moments.
Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes said that Hasselbeck’s “warm and engaging personality made her a star” and an “excellent conversationalist.” She replaces Gretchen Carlson, who will be given her own daytime show on Fox, Ailes said.
“When Elisabeth survived `Survivor,’ we wanted to make sure she would stay afloat,” Walters said. “We have had 10 wonderful years with her and she will now be swimming in new waters. We will miss her and wish her everything good.”
Rumors that Hasselbeck was leaving first surfaced in March, drawing a heated denial from Walters at the time. She also said it was not true that Hasselbeck’s political views made her unpopular in the executive suites at “The View.”
Her views won’t be a problem on “Fox & Friends,” which is popular with a conservative audience. The talk show is the most popular cable news program in the morning.
Hasselbeck’s departure is part of a year of turnover at “The View.” Joy Behar, one of the show’s original panelists, is also leaving. Walters, who developed the show, is retiring from television next spring. That leaves Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd as the remaining panelists. Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy playmate who currently hosts a show on VH1, has been mentioned as a possible new panelist.
Nice abs on Survivor and legs up to there!