After stints as a daytime talk show host and as a controversial co-host on The View, Rosie O’Donnell is heading back to a morning show. This time, however, it’s on the radio.

The former stand-up comedian is launching her own daily, two-hour show for Sirius XM Radio this fall.

“This is an exciting new adventure — two hours of talk show entertainment, without having to wear makeup. Perfection,” O’Donnell said in a statement to Usmagazine.com. “I can’t wait to jumpstart each day with millions of Sirius XM listeners across the country.”

The call-in show, called Rosie Radio, will tackle topics including pop culture, politics and stay-at-home moms.

“Rosie O’Donnell is a powerful, dynamic and entertaining voice and now you can only get her on Sirius XM,” the company’s president, Scott Greenstein, said. “Rosie’s millions of fans will hear her as they never have before and have the chance to call in and talk to her and her intriguing guests. Rosie Radio will entertain, inform, surprise and delight.”

The show, which will air Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. EST, will also include a wide range of guests including celebrities and everyday Americans.

O’Donnell’s show will join Sirius’ lineup of famous hosts such as Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart and Barbara Walters, whom she feuded with on The View before her contentious departure in 2007.

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Heading back to the air in a brand new setting, Rosie O’Donnell will be heard and not seen. The familiar TV face is launching her own daily, two-hour show for Sirius XM Radio this fall, to be called – what else? – Rosie Radio.

O’Donnell says that the deal came through after she yakked on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show earlier this year.

“He’s been very encouraging,” O’Donnell, 47, said about the shock jock, the Associated Press reports. “After I did his show, they called and asked if I was interested. I don’t really listen to radio, so I started thinking about it and listening. I asked if they could possibly do it at my house because that would really make it convenient for me with four kids, and they said yes, so I was like, ‘Wow. Let’s try that.’ ”

Essentially off the air as far as a regular gig was concerned after her headline-making departure from ABC’s The View in 2007, O’Donnell will host her new show from a recording facility currently under construction inside the guesthouse on the New York property she shares with partner Kelli Carpenter and their four children. (more…)

Rosie O’Donnell has decided to take a break from posting news on the internet - because she has become addicted to blogging.

The comedienne regularly posts her thoughts and opinions on her official website, allowing fans to respond with their comments and advice.

But O’Donnell admits that she has become obsessed with writing on the site - and on Tuesday, announced to her supporters on Rosie.com that she is taking a break.

She tells People.com, “I’ll take the month off and then see what it feels like to come back to it. I’m wondering if I can do it. Every time I watch Intervention, I’m like, ‘They need this show for people who need to get off their computers!’ My real addiction is the computer and the blog.

“It gets to a point where it’s too much. It’s too draining. There’s too much incoming of other people’s opinions and I’m like, ‘Okay, you know what? I’m gonna stop.’”

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Sources have confirmed to Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello exclusively that Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s former View nemesis, Rosie O’Donnell, is in active talks with NBC to return to television with her own weekly PRIMETIME variety show.

The news comes just as the Peacock is said to be courting exiting Tonight Show host Jay Leno for a similar gig. It’s possible O’Donnell’s series would be a fallback in case Leno defects to ABC after his late-night reign ends next year (as many expect he will).

The possible NBC-O’Donnell hook-up is particularly ironic in light of the fact that less than a year ago the network’s cable news arm, MSNBC, was close to giving the Koosh Ball-lovin’ funny lady her own one-hour showcase. But when word of the discussions leaked out before the ink was dry, O’Donnell claimed the network “panicked” and the deal went south.

O’Donnell’s rep declined to comment, but an insider with knowledge of the Peacock negotiations tells me that NBC isn’t the only major network making a play for the ex-View moderator. CBS is (or was) also said to be interested in giving the ratings magnet her own series, but at this point, NBC is said to have the upper hand.

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Speak Up: People either love her or hate her.  Which one are you?  (I’ll just say I’m not her biggest fan)

Rosie O’Donnell has laughed off reports she is splitting up with girlfriend Kelli Carpenter - and has slammed the journalist who started the rumour.
It was reported on Monday that the actress and comedienne had split with long-time partner Carpenter.

The New York Post’s gossip columnist Cindy Adams wrote: “Rosie O’Donnell and Kelli Carpenter, the handsome blond gal Rosie calls her wife, may not be so together anymore. Whatever other difficulties such a breakup might cause, there is also a houseful of adopted kids they’re raising.”

But O’Donnell has hit back at the claim, taunting Adams by saying she is “a lesbian but she doesn’t know it yet”, reports Fox News.

A spokesperson for O’Donnell joked: “She’s going to leave Kelli for Cindy Adams.”

O’Donnell, 46, and Carpenter, 41, wed in 2004, but the marriage was nullified by a Californian court.

They have adopted children Parker, 13; Chelsea, 11; and Blake, eight, and biological daughter Vivienne Rose, five.

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Rosie O’Donnell will wait until same-sex marriages are legalised throughout the U.S. before she weds her partner.

O’Donnell and her longtime partner, Kelli Carpenter, married four years ago when the mayor of San Francisco allowed same-sex marriages. But the California Supreme Court later declared the marriage invalid.

Last month, California state authorities lifted the ban on same-sex marriage, but O’Donnell is reluctant to walk up the aisle.

She says, “(We’re) going to wait until it’s legal everywhere, because otherwise, I said to Kelli, we’ll be going around touring the country on the marriage tour every state by state. Once it gets to be at the federal level, once every state recognises the marriages of every other state, I think that’ll be the time we would do it.”

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Rosie O’Donnell is hoping to persuade pal Madonna to direct an episode of hit plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck, after playing a recurring role on the show.

The actress and TV personality has played lottery winner Dawn Budge on a handful of episodes of Nip/Tuck, since making a naked debut in 2006 - and now she wants her pal to get on the set.

Show regular Kelly Carlson says, “Madonna’s been approached because Rosie is on our show and they’re very good friends. I’ve begged the producers to get her on the show. She has such a great mind for stuff like this that I think she’d be a great director for an episode. I would also love to have Madonna on as a character.”

Do you watch Nip/Tuck? I do, and I think Madonna would make a great addition to the show.

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