Names and faces
Posted on Friday, May 9, 2008
URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/National/225130/
Nearly two years after Star Jones left The View on rocky terms, the 46-yearold TV personality has criticized former boss Barbara Walters for writing about her. In Walters’ new memoir, Audition, she discusses how Jones wouldn’t acknowledge her gastric bypass surgery on the air. She also writes about Jones’ lavish wedding. “It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character,” Jones told Us Weekly magazine. Jones’ publicist, Brad Zeifman, said Jones wouldn’t comment further. Walters reveals in the book that she had a past affair with married former U. S. Sen. Edward Brooke, RMass., that lasted several years in the 1970 s. The details about Jones shed light on what happened behind the scenes on The View when Jones refused to publicly acknowledge the gastric bypass surgery she had in 2003. Walters says Jones, who’d dropped 160 pounds in three years, changed her mind after telling Walters she’d talk about the procedure on the program. Walters says Jones didn’t want to be the “poster child” for the procedure. “I understood that, but it put us all in a terrible position,” Walters writes. “It meant we virtually had to lie for Star.” Jones confirmed her surgery last year in a first-person essay in Glamour magazine. In March, Jones filed for divorce from banker Al Reynolds. The couple married in November 2004.
Mariah Carey really did get married to Nick Cannon in the Bahamas last week — and they have the tattoos to prove it. The 38-year-old singer and the 27-year-old actor confirmed to People magazine that they tied the knot at Carey’s Bahamian estate April 30 after a courtship that began in late March. In an interview from the magazine’s May 19 issue, Cannon said they clicked instantly when Carey cast him as a lover in the video for her new single, “Bye Bye.” They began a whirlwind romance and raised eyebrows when Carey was seen sporting a huge diamond ring on her finger at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her movie Tennessee, in which she plays a waitress. Carey said she told “only about four people” about the wedding. Were Carey’s friends surprised ? “Some were, but some weren’t,” she said.