Hollywood stars will have to find a new ego booster.
Rosie O’Donnell, whose daytime talk show is the friendliest space an actor could hope for (unless you’re Tom Selleck), says she wants to devote herself to “more fulfilling” pursuits.
O’Donnell says in the November issue of Ladies’ Home Journal that she plans to leave her successful show in 2002, at the end of her contract with Warner Bros. The Broadway musical-loving host, who has four adopted children, says she’d like to spend more time with her nonprofit organization, Rosie Adoptions.
She told Ladies’ Home Journal that although she enjoys hosting her show, she is “sick of all the crap that goes with it.”
An outspoken advocate for gun control laws, the New York-area resident received kidnapping threats against her son Parker in 1999.
After seeking approval for a bodyguard to accompany her son to school, O’Donnell came under fire when it was revealed that the bodyguard had applied for a concealed weapons permit. The bodyguard will not carry a gun to the school.
