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Rosie’s ‘Laid Off’ Producer Lists Hilarious Resume Hoping To Land New Job


Posted on Mar 28, 2012 @ 05:00AM - 2 comments

By Neil Woulfe - Radar Senior News Director

It’s not just Rosie O’Donnell who’s looking for work these days.

Now that her short-lived OWN talk show has been canceled, dozens of Harpo employees are also about to hit the unemployment line.

With that in mind, one of her producers made a special guest appearance on her show Tuesday to list his long -- and rather eclectic -- professional achivements.

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Producer Jock Hedblade -- affectionately known as “Jocko” to his pals  -- told Rosie he’s in “desperate need of a job and willing to do anything.”

It’s not just Rosie O’Donnell who’s looking for work these days.

Now that her short-lived OWN talk show has been canceled, dozens of Harpo employees are also about to hit the unemployment line.

With that in mind, one of her producers made a special guest appearance on her show Tuesday to list his long -- and rather eclectic -- professional achivements.

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Rosie O'Donnell OWN Show Was 'F**king Hellhole' Says Staffer


Posted on Mar 19, 2012 @ 02:30AM - 42 comments

By Radar Staff

Now that it's been canceled, staffers from Rosie O'Donnell's disastrous OWN talk show are coming forward with behind-the-scenes revelations about what really went on with the former Queen of Nice.

“It was such a f**king hellhole,” one former staffer told The Daily Beast in an in-depth look at what went wrong with the show.

There were O'Donnell's frequent clashes with The Rosie Show staff, reports The Daily Beast, and the host often lost her temper. During one taping last fall, "O’Donnell uncontrollably yelled at a publicist backstage because she didn’t like the parameters agreed upon for an interview."

Now that it's been canceled, staffers from Rosie O'Donnell's disastrous OWN talk show are coming forward with behind-the-scenes revelations about what really went on with the former Queen of Nice.

“It was such a f**king hellhole,” one former staffer told The Daily Beast in an in-depth look at what went wrong with the show.

There were O'Donnell's frequent clashes with The Rosie Show staff, reports The Daily Beast, and the host often lost her temp

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Rosie O’Donnell Sells $2.5M Chicago Home In One Day – Take A Peek Inside!


Posted on Mar 07, 2012 @ 06:00PM - 9 comments

By Alexis Tereszcuk - Radar Senior Reporter

Amid rumors she’s moving her struggling OWN talk show to New York, Rosie O’Donnell has sold her recently purchased $2.5 million home in Chicago in just one day, and RadarOnline.com has the photos of the stunning pad.

The beautiful 6,000-square-foot brick home is in the trendy neighborhood of Lakeview, not too far from Wrigley Field (home of the Chicago Cubs) and it boasts a 2,000-square-foot rooftop deck with sweeping view.

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Patti Blagojevich Claims Husband Rod Is Innocent, He Is Not ‘A Dirty, Rotten, Corrupt Guy’


Posted on Feb 28, 2012 @ 06:00AM - 7 comments

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

Patti Blagojevich still believes that her convicted husband and former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is innocent, despite him currently serving a 14 year-prison sentence for 18 charges of corruption.

Patti voiced her undying loyalty on an upcoming episode of The Rosie Show, and RadarOnline.com has a sneak peek of the enlightening interview set to air on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network on Wednesday.

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Patti Blagojevich still believes that her convicted husband and former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is innocent, despite him currently serving a 14 year-prison sentence for 18 charges of corruption.

Patti voiced her undying loyalty on an upcoming episode of The Rosie Show, and RadarOnline.com has a sneak peek of the enlightening interview set to air on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network on Wednesday.

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Chelsea Handler Has No Regrets Over Teenage Abortion: ‘I Wouldn’t Be A Good Mother’


Posted on Feb 10, 2012 @ 12:00PM - 5 comments

By Radar Staff

Chelsea Handler told Rosie O’Donnell she has “no regret at all” over an abortion she had in her teens, and RadarOnline.com has video of her candid confession.

Handler, appearing on The Rosie Show, said she tried to persuade her parents she should have carried the child, initially.

Chelsea Handler told Rosie O’Donnell she has “no regret at all” over an abortion she had in her teens, and RadarOnline.com has video of her candid confession.

Handler, appearing on The Rosie Show, said she tried to persuade her parents she should have carried the child, initially.

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Chelsea Handler Gets Serious, Opens Up About Her Brother’s Tragic Death


Posted on Feb 09, 2012 @ 10:30AM - 7 comments

By Alexis Tereszcuk - Radar Senior Reporter

Late night funny girl Chelsea Handler is usually cracking jokes, but in a heartfelt new sit down she opened up about the pain she suffered when her older brother passed away in a tragic accident — and RadarOnline.com has video of her touching interview.

“He was hiking in the Grand Tetons and he literally fell like 80 feet off a cliff,” Chelsea told Rosie O’Donnell on The Rosie Show Wednesday.

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Rosie O’Donnell To David Letterman: 'I Don't Remember Making Fun Of You When You Had Sex With All Your Interns!'


Posted on Dec 09, 2011 @ 03:00AM - 20 comments

By Radar Staff

As Donald Trump can attest to, Rosie O’Donnell is a fierce foe, and the comic proves she's as sharp-tongued as ever on her new talk show Friday, responding to David Letterman's not-so-nice comments about her recent whirlwind engagement to 40-year-old businesswoman Michelle Rounds.

As Donald Trump can attest to, Rosie O’Donnell is a fierce foe, and the comic proves she's as sharp-tongued as ever on her new talk show Friday, responding to David Letterman's not-so-nice comments about her recent whirlwind engagement to 40-year-old businesswoman Michelle Rounds.

In his monologue on Tuesday's edition of The Late Show, Letterman said of Rosie's new-found love: “The woman she is marrying, her fiancée, was driving … and her car broke down. And guess what happened? Rosie pulls up right behind her in her tow truck.”

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Tweet! Tweet! Rosie O'Donnell Surprised By How Fast Word Of Her Engagement Spread


Posted on Dec 06, 2011 @ 07:30PM - Add a comment

By Radar Staff

The power of social networking has impressed Rosie O'Donnell.

After the charismatic talk show host told her studio audience Monday she’d gotten engaged to her girlfriend of three months, someone tweeted it and before long, it was worldwide news.

"You know, I'm engaged, the audience hears, and somebody tweeted it ... by the time I got home it was everywhere -- everywhere!" Rosie said on her show Tuesday. "Not just the tabloids, but the CNN crawl!"

The power of social networking has impressed Rosie O'Donnell.

After the charismatic talk show host told her studio audience Monday she’d gotten engaged to her girlfriend of three months, someone tweeted it and before long, it was worldwide news.

"You know, I'm engaged, the audience hears, and somebody tweeted it ... by the time I got home it was everywhere -- everywhere!" Rosie said on her show Tuesday. "Not just the tabloids, but the CNN crawl!"

Responding to well-wishers on the social networking blog late Monday, Rosie wrote she was “so so so happy,” posting a pic of the jewel resting on her the finger of her fiancée, 40-year-old businesswoman Michelle Rounds.

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Oprah Trying To Salvage OWN By Going Back On Air With New Series


Posted on Nov 19, 2011 @ 08:30AM - 33 comments

By Radar Staff

Oprah Winfrey is taking another crack at getting her OWN TV project off of life support.

She's now headed back on the air with a new show called Oprah's Next Chapter that will premiere in January.

When Winfrey shut down her iconic chat show after 25 years, she said at the time her role going forward would be strictly behind the cameras for her new network. But the results at OWN have been so disappointing, she had to try something new.

Oprah Winfrey is taking another crack at getting her OWN TV project off of life support.

She's now headed back on the air with a new show called Oprah's Next Chapter that will premiere in January.

When Winfrey shut down her iconic chat show after 25 years, she said at the time her role going forward would be strictly behind the cameras for her new network. But the results at OWN have been so disappointing, she had to try something new.

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Oprah's Next Chapter
will have Winfrey visit Steven Tyler at his New Hampshire home, travel to Haiti with Sean Penn nearly two years after the earthquake, and have a slumber party at Paula Deen's Georgia estate.

Nothing has yet been announced about what to do with Rosie O'Donnell's struggling show on OWN. Introduced with great fanfare, the series had 497,000 viewers when it premiered October 10. It is now under 200,000.

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No wonder even Oprah's best friend Gayle King has jumped ship! She's shuttered her OWN talk show and is moving to CBS where she's co-host The Early Show.

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Rosie O'Donnell Welcomes Russell Brand In Premiere Of OWN Show


Posted on Oct 10, 2011 @ 02:30AM - 2 comments

By Radar Staff

Rosie O'Donnell makes her long-awaited return to television with The Rosie Show, which premieres on The Oprah Winfrey Network Monday night with English funnyman Russell Brand slated as the first guest.

The show will integrate elements of reality TV, as viewers will get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of O'Donnell and her staffers putting the program together.

Rosie O'Donnell makes her long-awaited return to television with The Rosie Show, which premieres on The Oprah Winfrey Network Monday night with English funnyman Russell Brand slated as the first guest.

The show will integrate elements of reality TV, as viewers will get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of O'Donnell and her staffers putting the program together.

"I think part of the reason that people liked my first show is they saw me love things, things like other celebrities, things like little children who came on, things like my family," O'Donnell said at a July news conference in promotion of the show. "So now, by doing a little bit of a behind-the-scenes incorporated in the show, you're going to get to see how I do that with my actual staff.

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