VIDEO Anderson Cooper blasts Star Jones, she makes matters worse with reply
The Silver Fox has proven that he can also be a wolf in sheep’s clothing as Anderson Cooper absolutely obliterated former The View co-host Star Jones in regards to disparaging comments she made about his coming out.
A while back on Today, Star stated that Cooper revealed his homosexuality as a ratings ploy and Cooper took serious offense to the implication. Here’s her quote:
“I’m a little bit of a cynic. He’s a daytime talk show host and when the ratings slip in daytime, the hosts tend to tell you lots of things about them. I remember Oprah said she smoked crack, Oprah said she was pregnant at 14 and considered suicide. There [are] times when you generate information for ratings.”
In a video from today’s episode of Anderson, co-host Andy Cohen asked Cooper about the big news and what it was like and Cooper unleashed on Jones. Check it out!
If you couldn’t catch the slam – here it is:
“I will say and I actually haven’t mentioned this, the only thing that did kind of annoy me and actually it annoyed my mom who brought it up to me, Star Jones of all people. I haven’t thought about Star Jones in I don’t know how long. I was unaware she was even on TV still … but she apparently shows up on a morning show. Out of the blue Star Jones … said this was a ratings ploy by me to boost ratings.”
“If I was wanting to boost ratings, I would have waited to announce it on ‘A Very Special Episode’ that would have been promo’d for weeks and weeks and there would have been commercials … ‘Anderson’s Huge Announcement.’ As memory serves, in terms of boosting ratings, I seem to recall [Star] hocking her wedding every single day to get free products when she was on ‘The View’ and I seem to recall her lying about her gastric bypass surgery and making everybody else lie about it as well. So for her to suddenly emerge out of the shadows and suddenly attack me for this, I couldn’t believe it.”
Anderson came out by responding to an email from a friend and fellow journalist while he was on assignment. Certainly not the actions of a man looking for a ratings score.
So how has Star responded? Did she let bygones be bygones and apologize? Nope. Jones only made matters worse by tweeting out the following:
I think Star needs to take her medicine like a big girl and leave this one alone. What about you?
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