Remember how initial reports said Rosie O'Donnell took herself out of the running for The Price is Right hosting gig because she didn't want to uproot her family to LA? Not entirely true. In fact, the truth is so much better.During her 'R' cruise, Rosie told TV Guide that CBS didn't want her because she wanted to "gay it up" (her words, not mine). She evidently offered the network a Rosie Hosting Package of some sort that included getting rid of Bob's Beauties and replacing them with "a chorus line of Broadway hunks, confetti, musical bumpers and a new set". O'Donnell admitted that she was disappointed when CBS didn't take her offer, because she's been a big fan of the show for 35 years. That's when she took herself out of the running for the job.
Way to go, CBS! Broadway hunks? Confetti? Musical acts? That sure would've ruined the show. Part of its charm is how outdated it is.















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7-11-2007 @ 4:54PM
const said...
i cannot stand this woman. she's nothing but a bully who runs and complains when she doesn't get her way.
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7-11-2007 @ 5:30PM
s said...
lesbo here, who fucking -hates- rosie odonnell. she is a super bully who has no sense of class or modesty.
but then i'm a west coast lesbian.....
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7-11-2007 @ 5:57PM
Eirik said...
Isn't that like buying a wonderful, (sorta) single-owner classic car in great shape that you've enjoyed for decades from afar, only to paint it a horrid color, rip out the engine, make it a convertible...
It might have had the same name, but it wouldn't have been the same show.
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7-11-2007 @ 6:13PM
Tristan said...
That would have most definently changed the show, then wed have broadway singers, imagaine one episode in which they come out singing songs from "High School Musical" while people are playing their pricing game.
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7-11-2007 @ 6:21PM
David said...
"I'm a huge fan of the show! So of course I want to change everything about it!" - Rosie the fat ass
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7-11-2007 @ 6:36PM
MacGuffin said...
I thought she was a blast on the otherwise staid 'View'. In fact, I would watch it because I generally agree with Rosie and she made that a year to remember.
But when I see these kinds of remarks, along with the comments she made about Elizabeth Hasselbeck, her credibility goes way down and she just looks like a cheap, immature broken person.
Maybe THIS is the real true color of Rosie, not the brave person we saw on The View.
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7-11-2007 @ 7:51PM
Will Teullive said...
Who does Rosie O'Dumbass think watches 'The Price is Right'? It's not the same demo that watched 'Will and Grace'.
It's old blue haired ladies from Nebraska and they don't want their show all gayed-up.
Will Teullive
http://1527rowland.blogspot.com/
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7-11-2007 @ 7:55PM
debra fink said...
Rosie wants to ruin the image of the Price Is Right. I truly think she is very disgusting with her ideas.
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7-11-2007 @ 8:58PM
Secret Asian Man said...
I'm sorry, but Rosie's ideas are so gay.
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7-11-2007 @ 9:02PM
Barkers Wannabe Beauty said...
Big fan my eye! She loves TPiR so much she wanted to destroy it? She's gone off the deep end! I think she thought she's so 'hot' (buzz wise) that she could make crazy changes and demands and figured CBS would gobble it up just to have her.
Who knows if what she says is true or not. So far she's come up with such excuses whiy she didn't get the gig as, as she didn't need the money, she didn't want to uproot her family, then she said she did a test show and was passed over because she gave her own take on Bob's sign off. Now it's because she wanted to gay it up.
If she really watched the show she'd know exactly the demographic of TPiR, and it's not the type that goes for over the top beefcake, confetti, and musical acts! We just want to watch some Midwest housefrau with a crsuh on Bob play Plinko or watch sailors win a car.
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7-11-2007 @ 10:13PM
jimmytheface said...
Just bring in Wink Martindale or (preferably) Chuck Woolery.
CBS needs to not go with stunt casting (hello Katie Couric) and go with a safe game show vet.
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7-12-2007 @ 12:27AM
Charlotte Deneice said...
I think Rosie should get off the air ways for good.She needs out of television or anything else for good.She's just a disgruntled lesbian that is mad at the world or anyone in it.She needs to relalize that her personality is ruining her talent.Well maybe not,I don't really think she has any talent anyway.God just needs to change her heart,then her personality will get better.
Thanks, Charlotte Deneice
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7-12-2007 @ 5:09AM
Mel said...
This sure sounds like a gay agenda.
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7-12-2007 @ 9:32AM
Lee said...
This is a problem with the entertainment industry. When they focus on someone from a particular group, they give the whole group a bad name.
Pat Robertson gives good Christians a bad name.
Jane Fonda gave the anti-war movement a bad name.
Al Sharpton gives the black community a bad name.
Rush Limbaugh & Ann Coulter give conservatives a bad name.
Thus Rosie O'Donnell gives the gay community a bad name. People like her don't give anything but ammunition to those who want to shoot her down. Lesbians need a new spokesperson. The media needs to focus on people from certain groups that add something positive to the world. Not all this ignorance.
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7-12-2007 @ 10:45AM
lisa smith said...
grow up people,if u dont agree with someone or just plain dont like someone does'nt give u the right to say homophobic comments,people who do that are plain and simple TRASH AND MORONS GROW UP PEOPLE AND STOP YOUR CHILDISH INSULTS AND GET SOME CLASS
KEEP GOING ROSIE
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7-12-2007 @ 10:56AM
Dave said...
I still think Patton Oswalt would make a great host. Or Jeffery Ross. We should have someone that picks on people (in a good natured way) and can make us laugh.
And that is what is important to remember: Bob Barker made us laugh. From the Range Game (which the device couldn't be started again for 47 hours or sometimes 72 hours) or when a lady would run up on stage and side-stepping contestants' row.
The show does need a face-lift and update, but people will keep watching if the interactions of the host and contestants is funny.
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7-13-2007 @ 11:43AM
linda said...
Rosie can do NO wrong! I love her!!
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7-13-2007 @ 3:01PM
Happy Steve said...
This whole article sounds like something out of The Onion.
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7-17-2007 @ 11:03AM
boski said...
it is obvious there are some serious mental health issues there. Someone needs to check on the children that live with her to make sure they are alright. And her partner seems terrified of her.
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8-03-2007 @ 2:02AM
ckairii said...
I love Rosie!!! I enjoy watching her...and good for her for challenging all you self righteous conservative Americans...wake up and smell the change!!! It's about time someone starts speaking out about all these things in question. Who gives a crap about the price is right...you should get angry about things that matter. Lets figure out whats important. Why not hate wal-mart or something that really is damaging?
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