The TV Zone

As I said this morning, the Oprah/Barbara Walters' encounter on "Oprah" yesterday was a gift that keeps on giving, and as additional evidence, we now go to US Magazine, which is quoting Star Jones' response to the discussion that revolved around her....ummmm....fat yesterday.

Honestly, when Babs said Star was so "obese she could hardly" walk onto the set, I pretty much did a double-take, and said to myself, "did Barbara Walters just call Star Jones Jabba the Hut?"

It was an amazing moment - not quite Cruise Punctures Oprah's Expensive Sofa, but a notch or two below.

Here's what Star told US as she left what the mag described as a "tennis workout" (though it does read like a pre-cooked statement:)

“It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character.”

(Right, the old Star, who waddled onto "The View" set each morning, per Babs.)