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Even in the unreal world of television entertainment, can this really be true?

Star Jones Reynolds was booted from “The View” Wednesday, one day after surprising ABC and Barbara Walters by saying on the air that she wouldn’t be returning to the daytime talk show in the fall.
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ABC had decided against renewing Reynolds’ contract months ago and the show was planning to let Reynolds announce it later this week, according to Walters. Reynolds could say whatever she wanted to about why she was leaving, “and we would back her up,” the longtime ABC newswoman said.

Instead, Walters said she felt blindsided when Reynolds broke the news Tuesday, then was quoted in People magazine as saying she felt like she was fired.
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Walters didn’t discuss on the air why Reynolds, an original cast member who’s been on the show for nine years, wasn’t being asked back. She said in an interview Tuesday that research showed audience members were turned off by Reynolds’ dramatic weight loss and glitzy wedding to banker Al Reynolds in 2004.

She was fired right away instead of being allowed to serve out her time because she made the announcement on Tuesday instead of Thursday or Friday? (It couldn’t have been what she said, right, since she could say whatever she wanted and they would back her up.)

And they had to let her go because she lost so much weight? Someone should really take Barbara Walters aside and explain to her the virtues of “No comment”. Funny, isn’t it, how dramatic weight loss worked out just fine for Oprah, but cost Star her job? As long as Barbara Walters is in the commenting business, I would love to see her explain that.