Comedienne Rosie O’Donnell has denied rumors that she is an alcoholic, insisting that she chose to give up drinking because she is desperate to lose weight. The star recently confessed her dieting secret to a fan on her online blog, prompting others to question the real reason behind her sobriety.

The fan asked: “So, Rosie, alcoholic or not? Just spit it out! …What led to you stopping the beer? You’ll only help someone else.”

While O’Donnell admits she was consuming more booze than she would have liked, she is adamant she is simply doing it to improve her health, according to the New York Post’s gossip column PageSix. She replied: “(I gave up alcohol) ’cause I was drinking too much, ’cause I didn’t want to any more, ’cause it is hard to lose weight when drinking, ’cause I can never have only one.”

Sounds like an alcoholic to me, what do you think?

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I think Rosie’s message was for all of us to be supportive of Britney Spears’ family in her time of need. I can assure you, we are waiting patiently for Britney to get her life back on track.

Here’s what Rosie O’Donnell had to say on her official blog:

“whenever young girl stars
came on my show
i tried to warn them
go to school

“follow jodie
she did it
u can too
save urself

“she was parkers age when i met her
lil souther girl with a tiny twang
yes maam she smiled
adorable

“she wanted it
the mothers always said
as way of both apology and explaination
in the dressing room

“vivi would
if i let her
support r family
with her light and talent

“its not mine 2 sell

“they could not have known
at the start
that this would b the result
it is sold as the answer

“if i had a magic wand
i would will her the strength
windex all windows
watch the sun warm her soul

“all together now
we pray”

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Here’s what Rosie O’Donnell had to say about Britney Spears:

I remember the tunnel as it appeared on the news, lit by headlights, flashlights, red lights. Between the cement tall pillars was a heap of twisted metal. I saw it then, and I can see it now. Diana dead.

She will be trying to get away, but they will chase her, just as they chased her into that church yesterday. There were dozens of them, jostling their way into sanctuary, elbowing past each other, just to creep closer to her. Even her last-minute, folded-hand prayers can’t be kept sacred. There can be no silent moments in a crowd; no silence, and no secrets.

All this fresh, painful frailty costs her so much, but it lines their pockets very well. A kings ransom was paid for those tabloid-ready cheap shots of her with messy hair, tear-soaked eyes, and the half-smile of a desperate baby girl.

“I’m scared,” she told them yesterday, when they later mobbed her at court. “Move back,” she said. “I’m scared. Stop it. Stop it. I want to get back in the car. Just stop it. Let me get in the car, please.”

Sometimes it really is too much. Internal wires cross. Anxiety hits. Panic sets in the heart. Dread. Fear.

But she asked for it, she’s a public figure.

At eight years old, she bravely stood before a microphone. By 17, she had sold 25 million records. Where were the sidewalk-skinned knees, the chalk stained hands, the monkey bars, the passed notes? A Disney set is not a childhood, no matter how many bright colors they use, or how cheerful the script.

Not a girl, barely even a woman yet, they chased her. A mob of stalkers for whom no stalking laws have been written. Smother. Crush. Flash. Photo Credit. Even Dr. “Get Real” Phil got in on the action. Unreal.

83 million albums sold so far. How many pictures?

The tunnel is crowded now. There are only inches of separation between vulnerability and disaster.

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“Peace prevails” with Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Rosie O’Donnell, as O’Donnell confirmed to PEOPLE Thursday night that she has made up with her former foe – and even bought her a baby gift.

On her way into the premiere of The Little Mermaid on Broadway, O’Donnell said of Hasselbeck’s 2-month-old son Taylor Thomas: “He’s very, very cute. I saw him on TV, and I sent him a lovely gift, and [she and Hasselbeck] have been e-mailing each other. And peace prevails.”

Hasselbeck returned to The View this week, bringing the baby with her.

As for Rosie’s baby gifts, they were in proportion to the scale of the conflict between Hasselbeck and O’Donnell when both sparred on The View.

“I sent something for him and something for his big sister [Grace, 2],” said O’Donnell. “Because, as the mother of four, I know that when the newborn arrives, the most important thing is a sibling gift. For [Taylor], it was a lot of clothes, because babies spit up a lot. I go to Baby Gap. There is a standard newborn gift pack – as much as you can buy at the Gap without being arrested. And a learning gift, a soft shape sorter. And then for [Grace] who is older, I got a tea set that she loves.”

O’Donnell says that Hasselbeck herself has bounced back after giving birth – and they’ve stayed in touch. “We e-mail back and forth,” she said. “She seems good. She looks like she adopted, like she didn’t give birth. She looks perfectly fit and gorgeous already.”

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The Donald is back! After a nine-month hiatus and some star-power infusion, The Apprentice returns tonight with Donald Trump taking in celebrities under his wing in a much-anticipated new season. One person who won’t be watching is his nemesis, Rosie O’Donnell.

“I think not,” she says sternly while responding to reader mail in a video blog.

That’s just a bluff, though, Donald believes.

“She’ll be watching,” he says on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet after being shown the video. “She won’t say that she’s watching, but she’ll watch it.”

The 61-year-old mogul came to blows with the opinionated ex-talk-show host after she chastised him for pardoning the former hard-partying Miss USA, Tara Conner. Their feud played out in the media early last year, but Donald says that’s just because they were egged on to do so.

“I’m here to talk about The Apprentice and you show this unattractive woman on the television and you say you think I play it up too much!” he laughs.

Talk did turn to the reality show, in which such stars as Gene Simmons, Stephen Baldwin and Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comaneci will compete. Also among cast — season one bad girl Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, who, after undergoing breast enhancements, has “aged beautifully.”

“Omarosa changed a little bit,” Donald says coyly. “She got a little heavier. She’s fuller.”

Helping him in the boardroom will be his business-savvy children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., who made Donald a grandfather last year with the birth of his daughter, Kai Madison. Being a grandfather isn’t that much different than being a father for Donald — his son Barron, 21 months, is just a year older than Kai.

“Barron is one of the youngest uncles in the world — he’s like one month older,” he jokes. “Barron is Uncle Barron. Right now, neither can speak. You put these little babies together and it’s like one of those things. I always think of uncles — they were 70! They were old. Barron is on the young side.”

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Rosie O’Donnell is answering up to an online poll that found her the “most annoying celebrity.”

“I, apparently, am the most annoying celebrity, according to Parade magazine,” O’Donnell, 45, states in the video blog, made while in a swimming pool with two of her four children. “Frankly, most celebrities are annoying. So, I agree, celebrities are annoying. The fact that I am one is annoying, and I suppose I am the most annoying – but, whatever.”

Nearly 2,000 Parade readers voted in the poll, with 42 percent calling the former View co-host the most irksome – followed by Paris Hilton, with 24 percent of the vote.

Speculating about why she earned the adjective, O’Donnell tells her daughter, Vivienne Rose, “Because I’m loud,” and “some people don’t like me.”

Interjects O’Donnell: “Barbra Streisand likes me, right. – The other Barbara – Walters? I think she loves me, but she won’t say that, because I hurt her feelings.”

Walters and O’Donnell parted on tenuous terms in mid-2007, when O’Donnell vacated her post as The View co-host three week’s before her first season’s contract was due to expire.

Besides O’Donnell and Hilton, Parade also named (in descending order) Ann Coulter, Heather Mills and Perez Hilton the Top 5 most annoying.

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Rosie O’Donnell announced on her blog Wednesday that talks for her reported MSNBC deal are over.

In her trademark shorthand language, the controversial comedian, 45, wrote:

we were close to a deal
almost done
i let it slip in miami
causing panic on the studio end

2day there is no deal
poof
my career as a pundit is over
b4 it began

and on we go

At a surprise stand-up gig kicking off the New York Comedy Festival Tuesday in NYC she hinted to the crowd that she was “filming for an unidentified TV station, which I was told that I was not allowed to mention.”

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