Meredith Vieira Happy To Have Left 'The View'

[Brian Damage]

October 10, 2007 -- AFTER returning to "The View" for the first time, Meredith Vieira now says she's happy to be gone.

"As I sat chatting with the ladies," Vieira wrote on her blog yesterday, "it hit me that novelist Thomas Wolfe was right - you can't go home again.

"I was proud of the show, and proud to have been a part of it. But I had moved on, and so had 'The View,' " she wrote on the blog she maintains on the "Today" show's Web site.

When Vieira quit "The View" last year to take over as co-host of the "Today" show, it set off a series of cast changes that rocked the show and - some believe - seriously jeopardized its long-term survival.

Her replacement, Rosie O'Donnell, took the morning coffee klatch to new, very controversial heights - but left the show in ruins when she departed last spring.

It was the first time Vieira has spoken frankly about the show since her departure.

Notably, she did not go back while O'Donnell was host.

"Exiting through the show's stage door," Vieira wrote yesterday, "I knew I would always have my friends there, and no shortage of great memories. But moving on to 'Today' has opened the door to another stage."

Until now, Vieira had used the blog only to talk about her hectic home life - she has three kids - and about stories she was working on for the show.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102007...nt_go_home.htm

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Brian Damage

October 10, 2007 -- AFTER returning to "The View" for the first time, Meredith Vieira now says she's happy to be gone.

"As I sat chatting with the ladies," Vieira wrote on her blog yesterday, "it hit me that novelist Thomas Wolfe was right - you can't go home again.

"I was proud of the show, and proud to have been a part of it. But I had moved on, and so had 'The View,' " she wrote on the blog she maintains on the "Today" show's Web site.

When Vieira quit "The View" last year to take over as co-host of the "Today" show, it set off a series of cast changes that rocked the show and - some believe - seriously jeopardized its long-term survival.

Her replacement, Rosie O'Donnell, took the morning coffee klatch to new, very controversial heights - but left the show in ruins when she departed last spring.

It was the first time Vieira has spoken frankly about the show since her departure.

Notably, she did not go back while O'Donnell was host.

"Exiting through the show's stage door," Vieira wrote yesterday, "I knew I would always have my friends there, and no shortage of great memories. But moving on to 'Today' has opened the door to another stage."

Until now, Vieira had used the blog only to talk about her hectic home life - she has three kids - and about stories she was working on for the show.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102007...nt_go_home.htm

The guest appearance was shocking to me because I never expected her to return to the View.-lol I have never went back to visit a old job, no matter how many friends I had there

[Ireneparalegal]

Returning to a television show cannot be compared to going to a 9-5 job. On television you are a celeb. Reunions are always expected on television, especially if you left on good terms.

BTW Solomon, what you posted above and what you said in that thread abt returning to an old job are two different responses. Better decide which it is and stick with it.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

Returning to a television show cannot be compared to going to a 9-5 job. On television you are a celeb. Reunions are always expected on television, especially if you left on good terms.

BTW Solomon, what you posted above and what you said in that thread abt returning to an old job are two different responses. Better decide which it is and stick with it.

Oh I know they are diifferent, I just thought Since she was so busy with the Today Show that she would not have time to go to the View

[ThomasE]

I am sure that she would have been able to squeeze in time for it since NBC is a little more than a mile from ABC.