Star Jones Biography
Star Jones is a lawyer, journalist, television personality, fashion designer, author, and women’s and diversity advocate from the United States. She is most remembered for being one of the first female co-hosts on ABC’s morning chat show The View, which she hosted for nine seasons from 1997 to 2006. In 2011, she was one of sixteen participants on the fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice, finishing fifth.
Star Jones Age
Jones is 60 years old as of 2022. She was born Starlet Marie on 24 March 1962 in Badin, North Carolina, United States.
Star Jones Height
Jones stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches(1.65 m).
Star Jones Family
Jones grew up with her mother, a human services administrator, and stepfather, a municipal security chief, in Trenton, New Jersey.
Star Jones Husband
On November 13, 2004, she married Al Reynolds, an investment banker. During the 2004 NBA All-Star Game, Reynolds proposed to Jones. The wedding, which had three matrons of honor, twelve bridesmaids, two junior bridesmaids, three best men, twelve groomsmen, three junior groomsmen, six footmen, four ring bearers, and four flower girls, was held in front of 500 guests at Saint Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. Jones and Reynolds announced their divorce on March 9, 2008. Jones announced her engagement to Ricardo Lugo, who previously worked for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, on October 24, 2017.
Star Jones Education
Jones attended Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and graduated with honors. She graduated from American University with a B.A. in Administration of Justice and was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority’s Lambda Zeta chapter. Jones graduated from the University of Houston Law Center with a J.D. in 1986 and was admitted to the New York state bar the following year.
Star Jones Surgery
In 2003, Jones got gastric bypass surgery. As a result of the treatment, she shed 160 pounds. Jones underwent cardiac surgery on March 17, 2010, which was related to a thoracic tumor operation she had three decades prior.
Star Jones Books
Jones’ collection of autobiographical essays, You Have to Stand for Something, or You’ll Fall for Anything, was published in 1998. Shine: A Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Journey to Finding Love (2006) was her second book, and it highlighted the adjustments she made to rebuild her life, including her marriage and significant weight reduction. Satan’s Sisters, a roman a clef about a fictional television talk show featuring five women with opposing temperaments, was released in March 2011. Daytime Divas, a scripted television series based on Satan’s Sisters, ran on VH1 for one season from June 5 to July 31, 2017. Jones was an executive producer on the show and guest-starred as herself in an episode on July 24, 2017.
Star Jones Net Worth
Jones stands at a height of $12 Million.
Star Jones The View
Jones’ career on The View, which spanned nine seasons, was marred by controversy at times. Her overzealous self-promotion, according to ABC, alienated viewers. Barbara Walters claimed that she kept Jones’ gastric bypass surgery a secret because he requested it and because lying on the show turned off the audience. Jones was later discovered to have pressed for product placement in exchange for free products and services. Jones’ contract was set to expire on July 13, but ABC found Jones had published a story in People magazine about her contract not being renewed after the show ended on June 27.
“What you don’t know is that my contract for the 10th season was not renewed,” Jones remarked. Barbara Walters told the audience the next day that she had been “blindsided” and that Jones would no longer be appearing on “The View.” Jones denied that she was to blame for the dip in ratings, claiming that the ratings for The View in 2004-05 were the greatest in the previous nine seasons. Her leaving produced an almost six-year schism between her and Walters. Jones appeared as a guest on The View on February 22, 2012.
Star Jones truTV
Jones revealed on March 7, 2007, that she would return to her old network, Court TV (now truTV), as executive editor of daytime programming and host an eponymous live weekday talk show focusing on the law and pop culture. On August 20, 2007, Star Jones debuted as a guest-driven live program (with taped pieces) covering current events in pop culture, entertainment, crime, and justice.
Six months later, her show was canceled, and Jones announced her departure from truTV due to “programming selection changes.” On February 1, 2008, the final episode of Star Jones aired. Jones was paid the remainder of her $24 million, three-year contract, and the network said Jones was dropped from the lineup because she was “too serious” for the channel’s tabloid-focused coverage. “[Jones’] show averaged 186,000 viewers and, by its final telecast, was down in the neighborhood of 85,000,” according to The Washington Post. CNBC.com listed the talk program as one of the “10 Notable Talk Show Failures” in January 2011.
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