As part of his post-Star Jones lifestyle, non-homosexual and YouTube star Al Reynolds is trying to sell a book on personal finance. The logic: Because he once worked at Merrill Lynch, Reynolds is now a fiscal expert. That he would generate more sales with a book about personal style — as in, "How to dress to catch a beard" — is lost on him.
Al Reynolds, a washed up Wall Streeter who was once married to washed up talk show host Star Jones, took to YouTube yesterday in an attempt to share the “real” Reynolds. Or, as he puts it, “The Al Reynolds You Don’t Know.” Did we ask?
Far too self-important to speak into the camera - so pedestrian! - Reynolds instead speaks with a journalist, who asks the hard-hitting, tabloid ready questions, like “Are you gay?” The answer, of course, is a long-winded, tortuous and overly prepared “no.” It begins thusly:
Adorable heterosexual Al Reynolds has adorable things to say about his adorable split from adorable Star Jones. You know, the type of cloudy, ambiguous things that could easily be taken out of context, or placed in context, to suggest he might be playing for another team. Things like: CONTINUED »
As part of promoting her book Audition, Barbara Walters, whose wrinkles you may count to find the age of the the TV biz, is throwing everyone under the bus. First it was ex-beau Sen. Edward Brooke, and now Star Jones, who tried reinventing herself as a skinny Court TV host and, well, found little success.
In her memoir, Walters claims Jones forced Walters and the crew to lie on the show about her gastric bypass surgery, which she's only recently come clean about. So how does bitter Star Jones, who's saying goodbye to maybe-gay husband Al Reynolds, feel about Barbara's treatment? CONTINUED »
From the Dept. of Why Did You Wait This Long comes news that Star Jones is splitting from maybe-gay husband Al Reynolds. Star plans to handle the "dissolution of a marriage" with "dignity and grace." The website StarAndAl.com has already been replaced with Star Jones' own site. The divorce proceedings will be sponsored by Puffs Plus tissue and Arden B.
Star Jones is performing in the Vagina Monologues tonight in Washington, D.C. It's not exactly a gig on CourtTV, but hey, work is work.
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After six months, though it felt like twelve, TruTV kicked Star Jones off the air, at least in her regular time slot. The network, nee Court TV, and Jones "mutually agreed" to end the show. Not because of ratings, of course (of which there were barely any), but because of the channel's reshift in focus. Not that they signed Jones to her deal after they knew they were moving away from Court TV's programming model or anything. Star will remain with the network as a legal analyst.
We've been following Star's journey for quite some time now, from The View and the operating room to her big gay wedding and the East End, before she ended up at TruTV. And since Day One there, we've been monitoring her demise. And everyone agreed it was DOA.
Yesterday, Janice Dickinson (a.k.a. the nip-tucked monstosity formerly known as "The World's First Supermodel") called frenemy Tyra Banks "fat" during a candid exchange with Al Roker on the Today show. Then, she panicked and immediately tried to run damage control by awkwardly rescinding her statements in an interview with former View co-host Star Jones.
But her slick maneuvering wasn't enough to fool the observant editor of Stereohyped, who called Dickinson out on her transparency and had this to say about her backpedaling behavior:
The greatest thing about publicity tours is that when you go on a talk show in the morning and call Tyra Banks fat during an interview with a black host who has had highly-publicized gastric bypass surgery, you can retract the statement the very same day during an interview with a different black host who has had highly-publicized gastric bypass surgery.
So true! Next up on Janice Dickinson's self-promotional publicity tour: A round-panel discussion with Mike Huckabee, Missy Elliot and Karl Lagerfeld.
Star Jones only recently admitted that Pilates alone was not responsible for her triple digit weight loss. Yesterday she hit up Court TV to explain that thin people still hurt on the inside. She explained:
It hurts my feelings to think that people never came up to me and said, 'You don't need to gain any more weight' but they sure as heck will say, 'You don't need to lose any more.
Got that? It hurt Star's feelings that no one encouraged to her become morbidly obese.
Maybe she needs to meet some Jewish mothers. They’re always in favor of weight loss.
If you want to know what's wrong with Star Jones, the new self-titled show on Court TV (excuse us, TruTV), you could read Dahlia Lithwick's multiple paragraphs in Slate, or revisit our two video clip posts (a one and a two) that made all those points already.
It's Day Two for Star Jones, the former View host's solo attempt on Court TV. And today, she introduced a new regular segment: "She Party." It is not, in fact, a tranny sleepover, but a chance for Star to sit around and gab about important issues – like Hillary Clinton's wardrobe – with her girlfriends, one of whom happens to be Page Six's Paula Froelich. (Paula, meanwhile, was introduced as a "lifestyle and entertainment contributor" for the show, though she is not actually paid to appear, we're told.)
So what'd we end up with? Let's just say we've missed being able to attach Star Jones' name to "group of women shouting over each other on daytime TV."
Meanwhile, when it comes to her Dustin Diamond interview, let's forgive Star for being a pregnant pause late to the whole "celeb sex tape" thing.
Star Jones' Court TV debut today included the much-touted interview with Isaiah Washington, but how much more can be said about his getting fired from Grey's Anatomy? Exactly.
Which is why the part of the show that most interested us was the closing segment, "Open Letter." Here, promises Star, is her chance to get real with you about something that she's loving (sorry, "so joyous it makes me want to dance in the street"), hating, or her PA can write a script for. Today's debut topic? Second chances, as in the one she's living right now.
Choosing Isaiah Washington as her first guest isn't going to make or break Star Jones' new Court TV TruTV show, but it will set the tone. Already, the gays are lashing out — and once you lose the gays …
But as Star learned about her gastric bypass surgery, some talking points are just too choice to leave untouched, especially when you've got the little issue of "generating buzz" hanging over you. Isaiah knows it too: In just over a month, Bionic Woman premieres on NBC, and he's written into the script for just five episodes.
So perhaps today's live 3pm debut of Star Jones is the merger of two opportunistic equals. Or, as the race-baiters will undoubtedly conclude, they're just protecting their own. Either way, we're looking forward to hearing Isaiah apologize for the 451st time!
This morning, in a sit-down with Diane Sawyer, former heavyweight Star Jones Reynolds explains that she lied about her gastric bypass surgery because she was "ashamed and scared," and that the reason she elected to undergo the extremely risky procedure was, "I didn’t want to die fat. Because that's not happy."
Instead, in an effort to secure herself a future of happiness, a determined Star set about marrying an ambiguously gay man, getting booted from The View, losing so much weight that she looks like a cancer survivor and pissing off her entire overweight fanbase (like Santa! And the entire state of Texas!) by insinuating that there's something inherently depressing about being fat.
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