Deb to Star -- What Goes Around Comes Around

Posted Jun 29th 2006 1:56PM by TMZ Staff

Star Jones & Debbie MatenopoulosDebbie Matenopoulos had a message for ex-friend Star Jones in an interview today, something along the lines of: Payback's a bitch.

The former "View" co-host appeared on Fox TV's "Good Day LA"  Friday morning, revealing that she and Star were extremely close, that is until Debbie got the boot in 1999.  She says that's when Star completely abandoned her.  "The thing that was most hurtful to me," said Debbie, "was that I thought that [she] was my friend, and then [she] was nowhere to be found."

As Debbie pointed out,  "It's called 'show business,' not show 'friends.'"

Debbie added that she wasn't upset about having to leave the show, saying she was told  that the show had to move "in a different direction," which is the equivalent of getting dumped and being told "It's me, not you." 

Et tu, Star.



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46. star who? You need a name like that to pretend. She's out along with yesterday's papers!

Posted at 8:15PM on Jun 29th 2006 by tony k

47. Well who really cares anything about any of this anyway, with all the really
important things going on in our world today ???? Get real.

Posted at 8:16PM on Jun 29th 2006 by mary

48. I have watched and had sincere love for that show. i remember when Debbie and Lisa left the show and that they left / we style and that also how Barbara/ has always treated everyone that she has ever touched. Also/ im a Rosie fan and an overweight lady.........i tottally agree with Rosie and what she had said about the weight. i love the way that Star looks/ but tell the truth........you say that / youve been in districit attorney office and i think / you should have done better than the way you left and all the other comments

Posted at 8:17PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Lynn Stonehouse

49. Star is a class act. She has served ABC well. My prayers are with her. Where one door is closed, God will open another for her....and The View just lost me as a fan. Rosie is no replacement for Star. Rosie is very judegemental for someone who is as controversial as she is. My advice to her would be, "Judge not, lest you be judged according to your own measure." Go, Star!

Posted at 8:17PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Mel

50. Poor poor Star, what a snob

Posted at 8:17PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Judy

51. EVERYBODY IS MAD AT STAR BECAUSE SHE SPOKE HER MIND WHEN SHE WANTED TO AND NOT WHEN THEY WANTED HER TO. IT WAS SAID SHE WAS NOT RENEWED BECAUSE OF HER WEDDING AND WEIGHT LOSS, BUT THE HIRE A HOMOSEXUAL. GIVE ME A BREAK.

Posted at 8:21PM on Jun 29th 2006 by TAMMY

52. Star Jones was the biggest pain on tha show. Believe me, she won't have any trouble working her way onto the tv screen. Remember Oprah??? They are good friends. Enough said.

Posted at 8:22PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Shelly

53. I've given Star many chances over the years. I"ve heard more negative comments from workers who weren't paid to other celebrities who find her hypocritical. Her need to intellectualize and justify herself is contradictory to her self-proclaimed high sense of integrity and honor. Dumping Debbie is not what I would consider having any integrity.It's always about Star and her need to be a star which eroded her own beliefs of being a person of a high moral ground.
I've always liked Star on the View, however, she appears blind to her own failings. A person of honor and integrity would pay her workers, and not try to get everything for free at her wedding and she would have remained friends with Debbie, after she was fired from the View. I side with Barbara, she, at least, is consistent.

Posted at 8:23PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Elaine

54. Star...where did she come from, what does she have to offer (for anything). She lost alot of weight...she needed to. She acts like she's a diva...she's not. She is simply a black woman trying to make a life out of being black, on TV, & not fat anymore. Star, get over yourself. You have no aptitude for a tv host. You epitomize the loudmouth black you hear at Walmart & Dollar Store talking louder than everyone, saying nothing, & are just plain annoying.

Posted at 8:23PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Ruth

55. Yeah! I'm so glad to see Star Jones GONE!!

Posted at 8:26PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Peggy

56. I'm not a Star Jones fan; however, Barbara Walters has no credibility at this point! She's a LIAR and if this situation with Star Jones is any indication of how she has reported the news for the last 100 years, I think that everything that comes out of her mouth has been a LIE. She and the other two corn balls (Joy and Elisabeth) need to jump off of a cliff and disappear from view.

Barbara Walters should have been a politician or a farmer because she knows how to shovel that BULL SH@#!

Posted at 8:27PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Ms. Erika

57. another black talentless biatch.

Posted at 8:28PM on Jun 29th 2006 by ed

58. The View, as a viable program, ended the day Meredith Viera left. The Rosie vs. Star insanity shows just how devoid of value the show is, and will become, in her absence.

Posted at 8:30PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Dw. Dunphy

59. Communicating Judeo/Christian principles is not popular, but Star has them and tends to air them every now and then. So what. When all the smoke is cleared, I can assure you that the real enemy behind all of this are the ABC executives behind the View. Choosing to hire one of the hosts critics was not a professional nor considerate move. I assure you they would not hire someone that Barbara Walters would be uncomfortable with. In the final analysis, the entertainment industry puts a premium on whatever and whoever opposes traditional values - and there you have it.

Posted at 8:32PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Gary

60. I think Star went out with class and Barbara just backstabbed her, and for Rosie i really loved her show but she irratated me when she bashed Star about keeping her wight loss method to herself, but did she forget the whole 6 or 7 years she was on her show she withheld that she was a lebsian... How Star loss her weight is her own business and no one elses, so in the end barbara walters is the one who should be ashamed for hiring Rosie even after all the bad mouthing she did over Star...shame on her

Posted at 8:33PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Debra

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