Salon.com > star jones http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Anderson Cooper slams Star Jones http://www.salon.com/2012/10/04/anderson_cooper_slams_star_jones/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/04/anderson_cooper_slams_star_jones/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:46:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13030706 Most people lauded news anchor Anderson Cooper's decision to come out publicly. Former "The View" co-host Star Jones, however, was less impressed. In July, she told the "Today" show: "I've been in daytime television for a long time. He's a daytime talk show host and when the ratings slip in daytime, the hosts tend to tell you lots of things about them ... There were times that you generate information for ratings."

Cooper (and his mother) took note of the comment, and responded to it on this morning's "Anderson Live." "I haven't thought about Star Jones in I don't know how long. I was unaware she was even on TV still ... but she apparently shows up on a morning show." "My mom was like, 'Who is Star Jones?' " Then Cooper unleashed an epic verbal assault on Jones:

As memory serves, in terms of boosting ratings, I seem to recall [Star] hawking her wedding every single day to get free products when she was on 'The View' and I seem to recall her lying about her gastric bypass surgery and making everybody else lie about it as well. So for her to suddenly emerge out of the shadows and suddenly attack me for this, I couldn't believe it.

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