The women on "The View" might wanna rethink starting any more catfights with Sherri Shepherd -- because the daytime diva just got schooled on how to throw down like a WWE diva.
After having lunch together, BFFs Gloria Estefan and Rosie O'Donnell zipped around Miami Beach in a convertible and relegated their D-lister pal Kathy Griffin to the backseat.
No word if Kathy and Gloria made O'Donnell pay for the meal after appearing on "Rosie Live" last year.
Rosie O'Donnell just wouldn't let up on Barbara Walters and "The View" yesterday afternoon and late last night, mocking her right into the camera on Conan O'Brien's show. Babs had excoriated Rosie yesterday for "dumping" on "The View" for purposes of pimping out her new show.
Then last night, Rosie went ahead and slammed Barbara ... without mentioning her name, of course.
Donald Trump needs to do one of two things: either stop bashing Rosie O'Donnell for five minutes, or just go ahead and send her an open invitation for a romp in his four-poster. Obsess much? The Comb-Back King has yet again projected his anger away his heinous hairdo and towards Rosie -- this time attacking her about an article put out by a gossip rag that says Rosie allegedly "manhandles" her 12-year-old son.
"Well, I think Rosie is a very abusive person," the Donald told Access Hollywood last night, "She's a slob and I'm not surprised to see it."
She just can't help herself – Rosie O'Donnell is telling talk-show legend Larry King that he should suspend himself ... for good.
As the New York Post observes, Rosie said that Larry was "getting tough 2 watch" and asked her readers in a poll whether King should "retire soon" – 88 percent said yes, as of this morning. And last year, Ro started the spat with King when she blogged, "Stick a fork in him – Larry is done."
Why all the King-hating? The Post says it has something to do with King "making fun" of Ro-pal Fran Drescher on Friday's show. Or maybe it's because he's gone all hip-hop on us.
Idol Reject Carrico – I'm Not Wiggin' Out!
TMZ told you last week that "AI" contestant – and, as of Thursday, also-ran – Robbie Carrico had a full head ... of fake hair. Even Simon Cowell, perhaps knowingly, told Robbie that his performance "just never ever felt real."
But Carrico's singing a different tune, telling a Friday conference call (via People), "I've been growing this hair for a very long time. It's ridiculous that [the media] have to come up with something like that." But several sources told TMZ last week that "Idol" officials were freaking out about Carrico's faux-coiff, and we also showed you what he looked like, before his hairline succumbed to gravity.
Party Favors: Jamie Lynn Having a Boy? ... Ferrell's Semi-Pro a Semi-Flop? ... Rocker Jeff Healey, Dead at 41
Could Jayden and Sean be getting a little boy cousin? MSNBC reports that Jamie Lynn Spears has been shopping at Petit Tresor in L.A., and that the items were "light blue" in color ... and were definitely not for Brit's babies. ... Will Ferrell's "Semi-Pro" definitely did junior-varsity business over the weekend, and already people are asking whether Will Ferrell's b.o. magic has passed. ... Blind slide-guitar master Jeff Healey has died at 41 after a long battle with cancer.
Ten years ago, Chris O'Donnell was the Boy Wonder in "Batman & Robin." And ten years later, the father of five was snapped while mailing a letter in Malibu.
Rosie O'Donnell -- who once offered up her home to Britney Spears -- is now comparing Britney's fate to Princess Diana's, calling her pap-tourage a "mob of stalkers" and saying that she's just "inches" from disaster. Though Ro doesn't use Brit's name, she quite unmistakably likens Spears to Di in her blog entry: "She will be trying to get away, but they will chase her, just as they chased her into that church yesterday ... Even her last-minute, folded-hand prayers can't be kept sacred."
With uncharacteristic punctuation and standard orthography, she continues, "But she asked for it, she's a public figure ... Not a girl, barely even a woman yet, they chased her. A mob of stalkers for whom no stalking laws have been written. Smother. Crush. Flash. Photo Credit."
Ro then takes a swipe at that bald psychologist, saying, "Even Dr. 'Get Real' Phil got in on the action. Unreal."
Rosie O'Donnell was just voted Most Annoying Celebrity of 2007 -- and she's not shying away from the dubious distinction.
Parade magazine readers voted her most annoying, giving her almost 50% of the votes (Paris Hilton was a distant second with 24%). And as if to prove herself, she went straight to her video blog to acknowledge it: "I am the most annoying, I suppose, but whatever."
Her daughter Vivi's adorable response: "No, you're not!"
Papa Brown's Got a Brand New Problem
Five of James Brown's kids are trying to get their late father's will scrapped, in an attempt to get money for themselves that he had earmarked for his grandkids and needy children.
The children allege that the Godfather of Soul's ex-advisors used undue influence to get him to create charitable trusts to help themselves, though the will itself shows that the trusts leave money to educate Brown's grandkids. One Atlanta lawyer says that earlier wills might cast doubt on whether he really wanted to leave his estate to charity.
One of Brown's advisors, Buddy Dallas, called the charges "an act of desperation."
Party Favors: De La Hoya Knocks Out Baby ... Jimmy Fallon Gets Hitched
At last, some good news for Oscar De La Hoya: The boxer and his wife, singer Millie Corretjer, just welcomed their second child together, Nina Lauren Nenitte, on Saturday. Oscar also has three children from previous relationships. ... Jimmy Fallon married producer Nancy Juvonen on Saturday in Necker Island. She's the producing partner of Drew Barrymore, and the pair met on the set of "Fever Pitch."
Rosie O'Donnell may have scotched her chance at a primetime gig on MSNBC -- by blabbing about it in public.
On her blog, Ro says that a deal to host a live hour-long show on MSNBC was "almost done," when she "let it slip" at a talk in Miami, "causing panic on the studio end" and killing the opportunity. Rosie didn't seem too broken up about it: "Just as well ... bashert -- as we say," says the Irish Ro. (Bashert is Yiddish for "as it was meant to be.")
FOX News' Roger Friedman reports the breakdown was all about the Benjamins, and the length of Rosie's contract.
Conan's Scary Stalker – Catholic Priest
It's something out of a Conan O'Brien sketch -- a nice red-headed Catholic boy from Boston gets stalked by not-so-nice Catholic priest from Boston.
And, in fact, David Ajemian, a Boston priest, was arrested last week while trying to get into a taping of NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." Father Ajemian has allegedly been sending the TV host "threatening emails, postcards, and letters" for over a year.
The priest is under psychiatric evaluation, and faces charges of aggravated harassment and stalking. Conan has not yet been examined.
Party Favors: Eagles Beat Britney ... Lance and Ashley Shack Up in SoHo House ... Is Jennifer Lopez PREGNANT?
You know your career is in the crapper when your superhyped album doesn't sell half as many copies as those of a band popular 30 years ago. Such was the fate of Britney Spears' "Blackout," which got housed by the Eagles' latest, "Long Road Out of Eden," 711,000 to 289,000 in first-week sales. ... Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olsen stayed at the Soho House together, says Usmagazine.com, during their whirlwind week in NYC. ... And, finally, *palm smacking forehead*, can you believe it? On the final stop on her "El Cantante" tour, Jennifer Lopez announced that she is pregnant.
Controversial talk show hostess Rosie O'Donnell is set to return to television, this time with her own show on MSNBC, sources on both sides of the talks tell the New York Times.
According to the Times, one idea being thrown around has the former "View" babe filling the 9:00 PM slot -- directly against "Larry King Live" on CNN and "Hannity & Colmes" on FOX News. Dan Abrams currently has that slot for MSNBC, but his ratings have been less than spectacular.
NBC execs were quick to caution that no deal was in place at this time. Calls to Rosie's rep were not immediately returned.
Bill O'Reilly hasn't been able to get Rosie O'Donnell on his show, so he brought the show to her!
The FOX News host sent a cameraman and a producer to a Long Island book signing O'Donnell was doing this weekend, to ask Rosie why she wouldn't come on his program. She told O'Reilly's people, "If Bill wants me, he should phone me himself. He's a big boy."
But then the conversation turned to 9/11 and how Bill feels that Rosie mangled the truth by claiming it was "an inside job." Rosie responded, "I didn't say that, he's quoting the wrong people." Someone on TV got something wrong?! Get out!
As the conversation became more heated, one of Rosie's handlers started to shove the camera guy, but Rosie told him not to because, "That's what they want."
The whole incident subsided, and on last night's show, O'Reilly reiterated his invitation for Rosie to appear. He shouldn't hold his breath!
The passionate, fiery, outspoken, relentlessly frank Rosie O'Donnell suddenly went quiet yesterday on one of her favorite topics, Britney Spears.
TMZ caught up with Ro as she came out of Comix, where she took in Roseanne Barr's show -- and even jumped in mid-act to do her own bit. But when we asked her about the popwreck on everyone's tongues, Rosie used that ever-trusty answer-avoidance technique -- the quick, loud, preemptive farewell.
Another Ro -- Roseanne -- had a bit more to say about Britney. "I'm gonna call her," said Barr. "She needs a mother." That thought should put a nice shiver through your bones.