I gotta be honest: I really could care less about Star Jones. But I will say this: damn, she looks good. I don’t know how much weight she’s lost, but it’s gotta be a ridiculous amount. She’s downright skinny. I know you probably don’t care much more about her than I do, but there was one very interesting dynamic to the conversation between Jones and the more vocal writers in the audience: they were downright pissed at her for not wanting to offer up more details about her show.
She did, however, offer her thoughts on the recent goings-on on “The View.” “I was a part of an amazing pop culture experience,” Jones began diplomatically, “and Barbara Walters gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to go on and do television that I really wanted to do, so I’m not going to do anything that damages that warm feeling that I had. I’m not going to pile on. I’m not going to participate in any of the silliness that might make excitement. Okay? Because it’s not me. And more importantly, it would destroy something that I love very much. But if you want to know something I’m disappointed in, it’s the fact that there is no person of color who has been permanently placed as a part of the cast of ‘The View.’ And I’ll tell you why. Not just for aesthetic purposes, but one of the roles that I played was in an editorial purpose. We all sat in the back and brought different values to the table and when you are putting forth a show, you need to make it look like the fabric of society and not just look that way from the outside, but feel that way from the inside. So that’s the only thing that I would encourage; that a permanent person of color who is a professional because that was my job, to bring the facts to the forefront.”
