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Ex-View Buddies Swap Barbs

Onetime co-host slams Walters tell-all as cry for attention

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted May 7, 2008 2:40 PM CDT

(Newser) – Star Jones is blasting back at Barbara Walters for claims made in her new tell-all memoir, US magazine reports. Walters writes in Audition that Jones compelled her and the other co-hosts of The View to lie about her gastric bypass surgery.

Saying Walters is "in the sunset of her life" (ouch!), Jones laments her ex-pal's "speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book," adding, "It speaks to her true character.”

In this image released by Harpo Productions, journalist Barbara Walters, left, holds the hand of Oprah Winfrey during an interview for The Oprah Winfrey Show, in April, scheduled to air on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.
In this image released by Harpo Productions, journalist Barbara Walters, left, holds the hand of Oprah Winfrey during an interview for "The Oprah Winfrey Show," in April, scheduled to air on Tuesday,...   (AP Photo/Harpo Productions, George Burns)
This studio publicity portrait, provided by Court TV, shows television personality Star Jones posing in New York in March 2007.
This studio publicity portrait, provided by Court TV, shows television personality Star Jones posing in New York in March 2007.   (AP Photo/Court TV, Matthew Jordan Smith)
Star Jones has come out swinging against what she calls slander by Barbara Walters.
Star Jones has come out swinging against what she calls slander by Barbara Walters.
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