If you thought months of YouTube.com wackiness was as weird as “The View” could get, you thought wrong.
Rosie O’Donnell showed up Tuesday and took the show to a new level of pandemonium.
The departure of Star Jones Reynolds, the dust-ups between Elisabeth Hasselbeck and just about everyone, even a claws-out confrontation between the “View” women and Sandra Bernhard — well, all of that served as a mere prelude to O’Donnell’s Tuesday arrival as one of the show’s regular hosts.
In the first quarter-hour of the program, she talked about Tom Cruise, medicating herself, letting her “crazy haircut” grow out, being a lesbian and discussing, ahem, her naked body with her daughter.
Then she gave away a cruise to every audience member.
O’Donnell was her typically feisty self, bristling when Joy Behar imitated one of her new co-host’s children. O’Donnell quipped, “And you all thought I was going to have problems with Elisabeth.”
“Trust me, you will,” said “View” creator Barbara Walters.
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