The one-time shoe designer turned "Survivor" competitor turned talk-show host revisits her trying days on "The View" and her firing, as well as anecdotes about her former co-hosts in her latest literary effort, "Point of View: A Fresh Look at Work, Faith, and Freedom" WaterBrook, pp.
Hasselbeck, 41, holds nothing back when recounting her dismissal from ABC's morning program , which she joined in She writes that in March , things "had begun to feel unusual," citing a number of guest hosts trickling through.
Hasselbeck writes that she was visited in her office one day by the producer of "The View" and an ABC exec who informed her that her contract would not be renewed and who explained that they were "going in a less political direction.
If you would just tell me, I would work on that — and make it better I kept asking, trying to figure out how to get it back, trying to get it all back.
More: Oprah shares her own life's purpose, insightful stories in new book. Hasselbeck writes that she was told there wasn't anything she could've done. Apparently, people are not supposed to love someone who thinks differently than they do," she writes. In fact, I love her a lot… She and I started off our friendship on the wrong foot. We approached each other like two stranger dogs at the park -- circling, then a little biting, and then… forever friends.
While Hasselbeck and Goldberg may be on excellent terms, the same can't be said for Hasselbeck and her former View co-host, Rosie O'Donnell. In a recent interview for an upcoming book, O'Donnell says she had "a little bit of a crush" on Hasselbeck and claims there were "underlying lesbian tones on both parts. O'Donnell further calls attention to Hasselbeck's time playing softball in college, saying, "There are not many, in my life, girls with such athletic talent on sports teams that are traditionally male that aren't at least a little bit gay.
If you replace what Rosie said and you take her name out and you put in 'Reuben' or 'Robert' then we would be in a situation where you would see the objectification of a woman in the workplace. That's disturbing because where we may be really against that when it comes from a man to a woman, you don't get a pass because you're a lesbian objectifying a woman in the workplace. You just don't. And I think it's selfish on her part Just because you're athletic, doesn't have anything to do with your sexual preference.
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I kept asking, trying to figure out how to get it back, trying to get it all back I have done my work, and I just don't understand. Why did you not tell me there was something I could have done better, so I could have done that? While things ended on an upsetting note for the one-time Survivor contestant-turned-morning talk show host, she got a chance few people do.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck shared that six years after she got fired, The View wanted her back. They offered her a chance to return as a co-host. She turned them down. That timeline indicates that this was a relatively recent offer from The View.
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