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July 6, 2006

At least someone has Star Jones' back: Joan Rivers told The Strip podcast that she would've done the same thing Star Jones did when she announced her firing on "The View." "I'm not one of the girls, so I don't give a ----, as long as they keep using me on "The View." But if someone was firing me, I'd come out and say I was fired...Star did exactly the right thing."
 

FROM MSNBC.Com's Jeannette Walls:

Joan Rivers is siding with Star Jones Reynolds. The tart-tongued comic says that the axed co-host of "The View" was right to announce on air that she was fired. "I'm not one of the girls, so I don't give a [bleep] — as long as they keep using me on 'The View,' " Rivers told the podcast The Strip. "But if someone was firing me, I'd come out and say I was fired. … Star did exactly the right thing."

From Detroit News's Newsmakers column:

As if Star Jones didn't have enough tainted rain falling on her head -- or bad winds if you know about and believe the Larry King rumor -- TV loudmouth Joan Rivers has come to her rescue. In an uncharacteristically coherent interview with "The Strip" (thestrippodcast.com), Rivers said she applauds Jones for leaving "The View" the way she did. "They were going to give her the goodbye party, they were going to make it a whole different thing, and she figured -- and this was very smart -- 'I'm going to do it on my own terms and (not have it) look like this wonderful goodbye, we'll miss you. Let it look like what it is, which is a firing.'"

A frequent guest on "The View," Rivers added that she is not "one of the girls" but hopes that she'll still be a welcomed guest. Did you hear that Joan? That was the sound of Barbara Walters deleting your name from her BlackBerry.
 

From Philadelphia Inquirer's Newsmakers column:

...In an interview with the celeb interview podcast site www.thestrippodcast.com, frequent View guest Joan Rivers says she's behind the victimized Star Jones Reynolds. "If someone was firing me, I'd come out and say I was fired," she said. "Star did exactly the right thing." Joan says she's proud Reynolds didn't let the show give her one of those fake nicey-nice on-air goodbye parties (yeah, they're not all sincere) to cover up the tragedy, the bitterness, the rage. ...

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