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"Rosie O'Donnell is joining the current game of TV musical chairs. On Friday, a formal announcement is expected to name the former talk show host as the replacement for Meredith Vieira on The View.

ABC officials declined comment on the prospect of O'Donnell's hiring, which was first reported on TV's Extra, but several news sources have confirmed the casting.

Friday's edition of The View, which is usually broadcast live, was taped, because its cast and crew are in Los Angeles for the Daytime Emmys ceremony – where the announcement is scheduled to be delivered by both O'Donnell and View co-creator Barbara Walters, a source tells PEOPLE.

The source added that several of those who work on The View had no idea that O'Donnell was coming aboard.

The Rosie O'Donnell Show debuted in 1996 and was an instant hit, earning its star, now 44, six Daytime Emmy Awards as best talk-show host.

In 2002, O'Donnell called it quits to help raise four children with her partner, Kelli Carpenter O'Donnell, as well as launch Rosie magazine. The now-defunct publication quickly fell victim to warring factions and then matching multi-million-dollar lawsuits between O'Donnell and the magazine's parent company, Ultimately, neither side was the victor.

Rosie and Kelli recently appeared together front and center on the HBO special All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise, a documentary about the maiden voyage of R Family Vacations, the travel company founded by the two of them and which specializes in gay family vacations.

The View, which debuted in 1997, currently stars Walters, Joy Behar, Star Jones Reynolds and the newest addition, Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Set to leave The View at the end of next month, Vieira will take Katie Couric's chair opposite Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show this fall, when Couric heads over to the CBS Evening News, where she'll be the show's first solo female anchor."

The show gets uglier and uglier.

DarkFury

Awww helll....

Glad I don't watch that show anyways. (I guess that is one good thing to say about having to work during the day huh? )

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ryan_self

This guarantees that I will continue not watching it. Good.

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BigJon

Good lord...just what the show needs...I can see Koosh balls being launched into the air now.

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sizemic1

i didn't even know her other show went off the air

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oblongmelon

hey..I actually LIKED Rosie's show..then it became a platform for whatever beef she had that week and it killed the whole mood..I could care less if she is a lesbian, I could care less if she doesn't like guns. I like the fact she takes care of her kids, and she isn't afraid to be who she is..I say get rid of that FAKE FAKE OH SO FAKE Star Jones (who can't even come clean about her gastric bypass and her oh so very gay husband)..keep Rosie, Barbara, Joy, and that blond girl from Survivor..and get rid of Star and her giant eyeballs..ugh.

nickel

<--- not a Rosie fan

she will not help the show's ratings.

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Jane83

a little lesbian opinion would be good for that show, since most of the other girls are all deadbeats anyways.
and that star jones?
geez

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brainsmile

won't watch that... Jones is uggs anyways

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