Page Six is reporting that The View host Star Jones is being forced out of the show by Barbara Walters. Something about "everybody hates her," the other hosts being annoyed that she lied about her weight loss, and her pluggin' Payless shoes on the show.

"It was always Rosie's condition of joining the show, and Barbara agreed to those conditions from the outset," our source said. The network and Jones are now concocting a face-saving scenario in which Jones will be touted as moving on to pursue important new projects.

It's probably because her boobs look like cottage cheese and she scares the show's guests. And Rosie O'Donnell is the new token fat girl, so, we guess nobody really knows what to do with Star now.

Rumors swirl that Oprah's right hand woman Gayle King will take the spot, which means the Payless talk will be replaced with "yesterday at Oprah's" and "when Oprah sees cheesecake …"

JONES GETTING ' VIEW' VAMOOSE [Page Six]