
Rosie O'Donnell has some words of advice for Barbara Walters:
Go, already. In her upcoming memoir,
Celebrity Detox, which sheds light on, among other episodes in her life, the TV star's tumultuous stint last season on
The View, O'Donnell, 45, addresses Walters, 77, to say, "And Barbara. At some point, a person gets tired. It's inevitable," the
New York Post reports.
"Barbara Walters is almost twice my age," the book (which is to be published Oct. 2) is quoted as saying.
"At some point it becomes necessary to step back. Everyone has to go. Going is part of the gig." O'Donnell also reportedly states, "I would be less-than-honest if I were to say that there is no trouble between Barbara and I. I mean, our differences are obvious."
O'Donnell writes that during commercial breaks on
The View, audience members would sometimes shout out, "I love you, Rosie" – "and Barbara politely tells them in a schoolteacher tone,
'It is impolite to say I love you to one person when there are four of us up here.' " Asked for comment on what her former co-host has written, Walters on Monday told
Extra, "Rosie sent me the book with a note telling me how much she loved me. I have read the book – and I would like to concentrate on the love that she sent."
O'Donnell's publicist, Cindi Berger, is also quoted as telling the
Post, "Rosie loves and adores Barbara and always will."
For her part, rather than scaling back, Walters is, in fact, stepping up her professional activities. On Tuesday SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced that, staring Sept. 17, she will host
Barbara Live, a weekly live call-in show on SIRIUS Stars channel 102, Mondays from 6 to 7 p.m. ET.
O'Donnell's blasts, meanwhile, arrive a week after Whoopi Goldberg, 51, made her debut in the chair vacated last May by O'Donnell and as the latest member of the show, Sherri Shepherd, 40, joins the panel.
SOURCETired old hag needs to leave TV now. ROSIE >>> BABWAH