{"id":63835,"date":"2021-07-18T23:48:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T06:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=63835"},"modified":"2021-07-18T23:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T06:48:47","slug":"talk-about-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/07\/18\/talk-about-the-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk About The View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile Stateside, <strong><em>The Talk<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;continues its long string of questionable decisions by hiring <strong>Jerry O\u2019Connell <\/strong>as a permanent co-host.&nbsp; To recap, a show developed for mommies and their point of view is no more, and now it\u2019s just a free-for-all hosted by random people nobody knows.&nbsp; Somewhere out there is an inconsolable <strong>Sara Gilbert <\/strong>(to say nothing of <strong>Marissa Jaret Winokur<\/strong>).&nbsp; I like the affable, goofy, weathered O\u2019Connell.&nbsp; But he already has two failed talk shows to his credit.&nbsp; Two years ago, <strong>Wendy Williams <\/strong>tried to launch a show for him.&nbsp; Before that, <strong>Andy Cohen <\/strong>got behind Jerry \u2013 <em>quelle surprise<\/em>!&nbsp; On the bright side, he\u2019s finally the smartest person in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong> is looking backwards for <strong>Meghan McCain<\/strong>\u2019s replacement.&nbsp; Reports would have us believe that <strong>Debbie Matenopoulos <\/strong>is in the running.&nbsp; While it would make me giddy as a schoolgirl, I don\u2019t believe it.&nbsp; Yes, Debbie has just wrapped five years hosting <strong><em>Home and Family<\/em><\/strong> for the <em>Hallmark Channel<\/em>.&nbsp; And, sure, the first in a long string of ousted <em>View<\/em> co-hosts enjoys being courted.&nbsp; But she\u2019s lived on the Left Coast for close to two decades and, frankly, I don\u2019t see her relocating to NYC anytime soon.&nbsp; Her people say that there have been talks about \u201cher participating in celebrating the 25<sup>th<\/sup> season of <em>The View<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp; While I believe she\u2019ll be back at the table, I think talk of a permanent gig is premature.&nbsp; Meanwhile, <strong>Rachel Campos <\/strong>continues to wait by her phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile Stateside, The Talk&nbsp;continues its long string of questionable decisions by hiring Jerry O\u2019Connell as a permanent co-host.&nbsp; To recap, a show developed for mommies and their point of view is no more, and now it\u2019s just a free-for-all hosted by random people nobody knows.&nbsp; Somewhere out there is an inconsolable Sara Gilbert (to say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63836,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63835\/revisions\/63836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}