: NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Sherri Shepherd will be introduced next week as a new cast member on "The View," giving the daytime chat show its first full cast since before Rosie O'Donnell came and went.
The show's creator, Barbara Walters, said Wednesday that she would reveal the new cast member on Monday. That will be Shepherd, said a person close to the show who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Shepherd is no stranger to "The View." She was a guest host more than a dozen times, many of them this summer as she tried out for a cast slot left empty since Star Jones Reynolds left last summer.
She appears in the upcoming film "Who's Your Caddy." Her lengthy resume includes roles on "Pauly Shore Is Dead" and "The Jamie Foxx Show." She even played God once on the CBS show "Joan of Arcadia," although it's doubtful her new colleagues will give her the same voice of authority.
Published reports had Walters set to appoint Shepherd in late July, around the time Whoopi Goldberg was selected as the show's new moderator. But the announcement was delayed, perhaps a sign that hardball negotiations were taking place.
Meanwhile, preliminary Nielsen Media Research ratings found that 3.4 million people watched Goldberg's debut on Tuesday. That's one million shy of O'Donnell's audience for her first show last September. O'Donnell's stormy tenure on "The View" lasted less than a year.
Goldberg created headlines of her own her first day by defending NFL star Michael Vick in his dogfighting case. Goldberg said that where Vick came from in the South, dogfighting isn't unusual.
On her "Wake Up With Whoopi" radio show heard on New York's WKTU-FM on Wednesday, Goldberg said she wanted to make clear she didn't condone Vick's actions. The Atlanta Falcons quarterback admitted he provided money for a dogfighting ring that operated on his property and helped kill six to eight pit bulls.
"I do not think what Michael Vick was smart," she said. "I am thrilled that the cops took care of it.'
IS SHE PREGGY OR IS THAT JUST AN OVERLAPPING GUT OR F.U.P.A? LOL..PLEASE LET IT BE THE 1ST THING I MENTIONED..LOL. SHE'S FUNNY AND BRINGS THAT GOOD HUMOR TO THE SHOW,THE QUESTION IS..HOW LONG WILL SHE LAST THOUGH? I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THIS SHOW IS ON IT'S WAY TO BEING CANCELLED OR JUST HAVE BABARA WALTERS,ELIZABETH HASSELBECK & THE OTHER RED-HED ITALIAN BROAD HOSTING AT THE END!! TOO MUCH DRAMA WITH THESE HAGS OF THAT SHOW!!
I've watched THe View with her on it. I don't know if she just doesn't care about the issues or if she just wants to belong with the other women so much, but I personally don't want her representing black woman. Those woman speak about serious issues, and I feel she has nothing to add that would be of interest to me or most Black woman.
MTO, why do yar always try to clown a black person. This picture was when she was preggers. Her son is now 2 yrs. old and she is divorced from the moron ex hubby of hers. Damn get a life! But I guess he's sitting back kicking rocks now, cause she is doing it big time now....without his cheating ass! I'm glad there will be two black sistas on there instead of just Whoopi, even though I think Whoopi is a heavy weight with hers, but extra comedy is a plus...go Sherri!
thats probably an old pic of when she was pregnant..she has like 4 kids..anyway I like Sherri a lot..shes a funny woman..but shes just going to be there for comic relief..the funny loud fat black woman..shes replacing Rosie O'Donell who was the funny fat loud white woman..they know Whoppi aint trying to be used as the shows jester because she wants to be taken seriously these days, so they get Sherri to do it..I dont think Whoopi should even be there..shes boring,has no style, shes not funny anymore, she has no sex appeal,she tries so hard to push her political beliefs on people, and shes so bland! they should have chosen just Sherri..this show started out with Barbara Walters and a group of no-name women, so why is it now they want to get all these big names to be on the show? anyway good luck Sherri!
@ TheTrueOne
n[SPAM]oo, say it aint sooooo!! She is back with that cheating bastard?? Oh I see what he's doing, he seen that she was a potential runner-up as co-host for the View and tried to get back with her b4 she got chosen so it can look like he was with her b4 the big checks from the View started rolling in after they chose her. His ass aint slick @ all. After they got divorced the court ordered Sherri to pay him spousal support b/c she earned more than him wtf?? After all the cheating he's done, he's still gonna get paid for it?? So now all he gotta do is cheat on her again..once she file for divorce...again, he will now get more spousal support from her income with the View...smart move K-FED #2!
some of the posters on MTO are absolute idiots... u can't tell that sherri is pregnant??? have any of you ever seen a pregnant belly? it looks a lot different than just being fat! she is and has always been 'healthy', but more than anything she has tig ol bitties... sherri is no longer pregnant (that is an old pic). if skinny azz demi moore & other pregnant mothers can show their stomach why not sherri? @ msclassiq - sherri has been working steady and taking care of her family - so what r u yapping about?!
i don't like the view that much because they usually talk over each other too much to enjoy the show, but w/ Whoopi as the moderator and sherri now on the show, maybe it will get better. still doubt i'll watch it very much tho...
oh yeah - they have the token conservative idiot (hasselbeck), the token loud-mouth jewish lady (joy), the uppity diva (babs), and two black women now... i just wonder if they expect whoopi to be less contraversial than rosie? remember whoopi had a half-way decent sitcom a couple of years ago that was cancelled after she talked ish about dub-yah...
i hope she's showing off a pregnant stomach ein that pic cuz that looks really nasty. & i wonder how miss whitewashed whoopi goldberg is gonna like having another sister on the panel. cuz miss whoopi is always sniffing some white persons booty. anyway you damn well those 2 gon the be the main ones fightin. watch.
who cares??? i'm tired of hearing about these cackling, squawking bytches and this tired azzed show!!! when is ABC gonna wake up and cancel this bullshyt???? sherri shepherd is a nobody and whoopi does NOT belong on that show!! there's other places to showcase her talent and sitting around a table with a group of cackling bytches talking over each other every 10 seconds is NOT where she needs to be!!!!
Barbara picked her and whoopi because they talk like amos and andy (look it up!) don't cross the good white folk!! barbara should be off she can't hold a thought, elizabeth is a racist, lucky to have any job, riding on the republican gravy train. joy is the only sane one on the show. I liked kathy griffin she said any black person that is a republican is stupid. (or something like that) It has not been good since roseey left she was a little nuts but must nuts don't speak the truth.
@missclasiq u mad ignorant for saying that and i think she is real pretty and smart her [EXPLETIVE] mad fu.ckin big tho but i wish her luck.... ya da hell black ppl gotta hate on one other if u do bad ni99as wanna talk if u do good ni99as still talk .. all i say is stfup and do wat u gotta do to survive because in the ending its all about u damn i sound like a preacher lmao
