Rosie O’Donnell is definitely not on Team Leno — and she has elaborate comparisons to explain why.

At Tuesday’s Manhattan screening of A Family is a Family is a Family: A Rosie O’Donnell Celebration, O’Donnell tore into Jay Leno, whose low-rated prime time show is poised to take over Conan O’Brien’s 11:35 a.m. time slot (thus leading to O’Brien’s departure).

“It was a really crappy move on Leno’s part,” O’Donnell told UsMagazine.com. “It was kind of career defining.”

O’Donnell, once a talk-show host herself, continued, “he tried to ‘Nancy Kerrigan.’ He tried to take a bat,” she said, referring to infamous 1994 incident in which Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan was bashed in the knees with a lead pipe in an attack orchestrated by her rival Tonya Harding and Harding’s husband, Jeff Gillooly. “At least Jeff Gillooly took a pipe and [admitted] he did it.”

“He didn’t do it and go (imitating Jay Leno’s voice) ‘I don’t know who hit her.’ Gee, it was you, you’re the one who hit her right in the knee, you know?”

O’Donnell contends that Leno should claim responsibility for pushing O’Brien from his new Tonight Show post. “I think in the old days of show biz you can claim ignorance,” she says. “But today with the internet, no way. There”s no way people are going to buy the crap anymore.”

“Conan moved his family across the country and his entire staff to get a shot at what he worked 17 years for only to get it taken away by the bully on the playground who doesn’t want to let go.”

Added the comic: “I’m glad that I’m not on late night. They throw everyone to the wolves, including their own.”

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Rosie O’Donnell may have said last month that she was done commenting on breakup rumors dogging her relationship with her partner of five years, Kelli Carpenter, but that changed Friday.

On her Sirius Satellite radio show, O’Donnell suddenly admitted Carpenter had moved out of their home two years ago. The reason for the big reveal? A pressing psychic and a long-haired chihuahua.

“Where did you get her from Rosie? Because she says she came from somewhere. And she said she’s happier with you,” pet psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick said of O’Donnell’s dog Misty. “She’s so spoiled and she loves to burrow.”

O’Donnell confirmed: “She does! She burrows in the bed right next to me.”

And, when asked who “sometimes looks after her,” O’Donnell explained her four children all fight over caring for the pup, which she got three days after Carpenter left. “What happened [was] when Kelli moved out two years ago, I got the dog. Because I wanted another child or something to love. And I got the dog.”

On Oct. 20, O’Donnell told USA Today, “We’re a family, we remain a family … Kelli and I love each other very much, and we are working on our issues. Those are the only words I am ever going to say. Ever. And that is something that has been agreed upon by all parties.”

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It looks like former enemies Star Jones and Rosie O’Donnell have more in common than their mutual disdain for Barbara Walters!

The two former co-hosts of The View, who feuded after Rosie criticized Star in 2006 for not disclosing her gastric-bypass surgery, have made amends and are planning a reality show together.

“They get along quite well and have a wicked sense of humor when they’re together. Everyone keeps telling them they need to capture it on camera and now they’ve decided to,” a TV insider says. “They know people will tune in to see them.”

Although reps for both stars deny the story, the show will combine elements of Oprah and Gayle King’s cross-country trip with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s The Simple Life trek.

“They want to show their different personalities as they cope with real-life situations and determine if their new friendship can stand the stress of it all,” says the insider. “They’re hoping to be the new Lucy and Ethel of reality TV.”

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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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