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It’s a Boy for ‘View’ Co-Host Hasselbeck

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Nov 102007

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host on ABC’s “The View,” gave birth Friday morning to a baby boy at an Arizona hospital, the network announced Saturday.

The baby weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and arrived without complications for the child or the television host. The Hasselbecks did not release the name of their new son in the birth announcement. Instead, his name will be shared during Monday’s “The View” in a phone call to her fellow co-hosts.

“Elisabeth and I are happy to announce the arrival of our son and we’re thrill he arrived safely,” Tim Hasselbeck, Elisabeth’s NFL quarterback husband, said in a statement. “Both mom and son are happy and healthy.”

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, known as the most conservative voice on the show’s panel, bid farewell to her co-hosts on Oct. 23 to begin a two-and-a-half month maternity leave. Hasselbeck originally was scheduled to take maternity leave on Nov. 9, but left instead at the end of October. Hasselbeck announced her pregnancy on the show in April.

“It was not easy to leave my co-hosts and our crew early,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck wrote in an e-mail earlier this week, “but it was more than clear to me that I want my family to be under the same roof when our baby arrived.”

The 30-year-old former “Survivor” contestant and Arizona Cardinals quarterback already have a 2-year-old daughter, Grace.

Hasslebeck became a “View” staple after she won a nationwide search in 2003 for a co-host to replace Lisa Ling. Her conservative viewpoints often placed her at odds with her former co-host Rosie O’Donnell during the comedian’s one-year stint on the show last season.

The debates between the two became must-see television, with their most heated argument culminating in a split-screen view of Hasselbeck and O’Donnell arguing about the war on terror in May 2007.

During the confrontation, O’Donnell accused Hasselbeck of not defending her more forcefully against conservative commentators.

The verbal sparring nearly brought Hasselbeck to tears on-air and hastened O’Donnell’s show exit.

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Sep 242007

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Rosie O’Donnell May Never Speak to Elizabeth Hasselbeck

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May 282007

Rosie O’Donnell says she will likely never speak to “The View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck again after an on-air tiff last week that led to O’Donnell’s early departure from the show.

The former host of the ABC daytime chatfest says in a video blog posted on her Web site that she has never tried harder to be friends with someone, but she doesn’t think she succeeded with Hasselbeck.

“I haven’t spoken to her, and I probably won’t, and I think it’s just as well,” she said. “I wrote her an e-mail, and she wrote me back, and there you have it.”

The fight ended a colorful eight-month tenure for O’Donnell that lifted the show’s ratings but no doubt caused heartburn for show creator Barbara Walters. O’Donnell feuded with Donald Trump and frequently had snippy exchanges with the more conservative Hasselbeck.

On Friday, ABC said O’Donnell asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract. O’Donnell said last month she would be leaving because she could not agree to a new contract with ABC executives. In the video blog, she said she never really fit in.

“I was really just like a foster kid for a year,” she said. “I came, you know, we considered adoption, but I didn’t really fit into the family and now it’s time for the foster kid to go back home.”

O’Donnell fessed up that chief writer Janette Barber drew a mustache on a photo of Hasselbeck at the show’s studio before they left. “It was a joke on the way out,” she said.

Calls to ABC and Walters were not immediately returned Monday.

The argument with Hasselbeck began Wednesday over O’Donnell’s statement last week about the war: “655,000 Iraqi civilians have died. Who are the terrorists?”

Talk show critics accused O’Donnell of calling U.S. troops terrorists. She called Hasselbeck “cowardly” for not saying anything in response to the critics, which set off their lengthy argument.

Rosie & Elisabeth Hasselbeck Wage Angry War of Words

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May 242007

Watching Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck squabble on ABC’s “The View” is nothing new, but Wednesday’s dustup seemed particularly nasty with the co-hosts trading accusations and personal digs.

A political discussion over the war in Iraq became heated when an angry O’Donnell decried Hasselbeck for not standing up for her when media outlets suggested that she’d called U.S. troops “terrorists” during a previous debate.

“What you did was not defend me. … I asked you if you believed what the Republican pundits were saying – you said nothing, and that’s cowardly,” O’Donnell said.

Responded a stern Hasselbeck: “Do not call me a coward, because No. 1, I sit here every single day, open my heart and tell people what I believe.”

O’Donnell and Hasselbeck were shown on a split screen as the argument progressed without commercial interruption.

“Do you believe that I think our troops are terrorists? And you would not even look me in the face, Elisabeth, and say, `No, Rosie,’” O’Donnell said.

Responded Hasselbeck: “Because you are an adult, and I am certainly not going to be the person for you to explain your thoughts. They’re your thoughts! Defend your own insinuations!”

O’Donnell, who is leaving the ABC daytime talk show next month, said she wasn’t going to fight anymore. “So for three weeks, you can say all the Republican crap you want.”

Hasselbeck discussed the war of words in an interview with syndicated entertainment show “Extra” that was to air Wednesday evening.

“I honestly think, I believe that we are mature women who can resolve,” she said. “I hope we can. I would hope that a disagreement or a heated debate wouldn’t be the end of a relationship.”

In a posting on her blog, O’Donnell wrote: “a split screen, new heights, or lows, depending on who u ask.”

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May 242007

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‘View’ Co-Host Hasselbeck Pregnant Again

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May 012007

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host on “The View,” is pregnant again. She announced the news Monday on the daytime ABC talk show. Hasselbeck, 29, and her husband, pro football player Tim Hasselbeck, have a 2-year-old daughter, Grace.

“When you said you had an announcement, my heart sank!” joked Barbara Walters, co-host and creator of “The View.”

Last week, Rosie O’Donnell announced she was leaving the show in June because she and ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Co., couldn’t agree on a new contract.

“We’re going to be lonely without you, so Tim and I thought we should get busy and, you know, maybe make a little co-host,” Hasselbeck said.

She said the baby is due in November.

“And what is November?” asked Walters.

“Sweeps!” said O’Donnell.

“Yes, sweeps!” Walters replied.

“Perfect timing,” O’Donnell said.