Rosie O’Donnell won't be coming to MSNBC after all, according to a post on her blog.
The acid-tongued talk-show host whose dispute with Elisabeth Hasselbeck hastened her departure from “The View” was reportedly in negotiations to host a prime-time talk show on MSNBC five days a week. However, she wrote on her blog Wednesday that “my career as a pundit is over b4 it began.”
“We were close to a deal,” O'Donnell said. “Almost done ... i let it slip in miami causing panic on the studio end.”
The cable news channel owned by NBC Universal would not officially comment on the report but a source close to MSNBC TV confirmed O'Donnell's report.
The reports that O'Donnell would return to TV, which first surfaced in The New York Times, suggested she would take over the 9 p.m. slot currently occupied by “Live with Dan Abrams.” That would put her show in competition with CNN’s “Larry King Live” and Fox News Channel’s “Hannity & Colmes.”
O’Donnell hosted her own daytime talk show from 1996 to 2002. She also produced a Broadway musical and founded a short-lived namesake magazine before her tempestuous run on “The View.” Although she was there for less than a year before leaving in May, her boisterous, opinionated style was credited with boosting the show’s ratings.
Shortly before joining the multi-host show created by Barbara Walters, O’Donnell had blogged that “it will be hard 4 me 2 not b the boss.” Now she’s set to reclaim center stage as her own.