Star Jones

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Starlet Marie Jones (born March 24, 1962) is an American lawyer, journalist, television presenter, fashion designer, and feminist rights advocate.

She is best known as one of the first co-hosts on ABC morning talk show The View, on which she appeared from 1997 to 2006.

She was also one of sixteen contestants of the fourth installment of The Celebrity Apprentice in 2011, finishing in fifth place.

Early life

Jones was born in Badin, North Carolina, and she and her mother, a social services administrator, and her stepfather, a municipal security chief, grew up in Trenton, New Jersey.

Jones graduated from Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She received a B.A. She earned her degree in Administration of Justice at American University, where she was welcomed to Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in Lambda Zeta. Jones obtained a J.D. In 1986, the University of Houston Law Center obtained a degree in 1986 and was admitted to the New York state bar in 1987.

Personal life

In 2003, Jones underwent gastric bypass surgery. As a result of the surgery, she shed 160 pounds.

On November 13, 2004, Jones married investment banker Al Reynolds. During the 2004 NBA All-Star Game, Reynolds was introduced to Jones. The wedding was held at Saint Bartholomew's Church in New York City in front of five hundred people, including three matrons of honor, two junior bridesmaids, three best groomsmen, three junior groomsmen, three junior groomsmen, three senior groomsmen, three ring bearers, and four flower girls, amid a slew of bridesmaids, three younger groomsmen, three teenage groomsmen, three junior groomsmen, four ring bears More than thirty corporate "sponsors" donated wedding attire and accessories for the occasion in exchange for mentions in the media and on Jones' website. Jones used the term "Star Jones Reynolds" professionally, but she reverted to "Star Jones" in 2007, according to Entertainment Weekly, she wanted to hold her public image separate from her private self. Jones and Reynolds announced on March 9, 2008, that they were divorcing.

Jones underwent heart surgery on March 17, 2010, following a thoracic tumor diagnosis three decades earlier.

Jones went public on October 24, 2017, revealing her connection to Ricardo Lugo, who recently worked in the Cook County State Attorney's Office. According to a state's Attorney's Office spokesperson, Lugo served as an assistant state's attorney from April to August. Prosecutors in 17 of 18 were refused bailouts due to county budget problems. On Sunday, March 25, 2018, Jones married Ricardo Lugo on a cruise ship in the Bahamas.

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Television career

Jones served as a prosecutor with the Kings County District Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, New York, from 1986 to 1991. She was promoted to senior assistant district attorney in 1992. She was hired by Court TV in 1991 as a commentator for the William Kennedy Smith rape trial and spent many years as a legal reporter for NBC's Today and NBC Nightly News.

Jones & Jury, which mimicked The People's Court's arbitration-based reality presentation, was released in 1994, but with a mixed talk show like set and style. Despite the fact that Jones was cancelled after just one season, it made him the first Black person to serve as a court show judge. Jones is the first female to preside over the court show subcategory of arbitration-based reality programming, although not the first female to serve as a judge. Jones, who appeared on January 10, 2022, is expected to return to the courtroom scene in fall 2022 as the 6th judge in the longest-running courtroom series, Divorce Court. Jones will begin presiding in the program's 40th season.

Jones then became the chief legal analyst on Inside Edition, where she oversaw the coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder case. She was the only reporter to question Simpson at his civil trial, which she covered for The American Journal.

Jones became one of the original four co-hosts of The View in 1997. Jones' tenure on The View was marred by controversies at times. Jones, who had been diagnosed as morbidly obese, began losing weight in 2003. In a September 2007 essay in Glamour magazine, she revealed that she had undergone gastric bypass surgery in August 2003, resulting in a loss of 160 pounds (73 kilograms) over three years. Many chastised Jones for her first dishonesty after she said she had shed weight by diet and exercise. Barbara Walters told Oprah Winfrey in May 2008 that she had kept Jones' gastric bypass surgery a mystery because Jones had requested her to, and that lying on the show turned the audience off.

In addition, when Jones married investment banker Al Reynolds in 2004, Jones revealed that she had planned her wedding plans on The View months ahead of time, including "plugs" (public notices) for her vendors, including wedding invitations, clothes, and airlines. Jones later revealed that it had pushed product placement in exchange for receiving those products and services for free. ABC claimed that her overspending self-promotion alienated viewers. Jones found on April 21, 2006, that her deal would not be renewed for the upcoming season.

Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie told Jones that she could go out on "her own terms." Jones had collectively decided against her impending departure on Thursday, June 29, 2006, but Jones shocked her co-hosts by announcing it two days earlier, June 27, 2006, when they first learned from their first commercial break that she would be leaving the program. She announced that she would remain on the show until July and would not return in the fall. She did not reveal that her deal was not renewed when she first revealed it. "Who am I going to fight with now?" co-host Joy Behar jokingly said after Jones revealed her departure live on air. "I have a feeling you'll have someone else to fight with," Jones said.

Despite this, Walters revealed the next day that Jones will no longer appear on the program with the exception of previously unveiled segments, with Jones's "betrayed" for unexpectedly making the announcement two days ahead of schedule. Jones said in an interview with People that the decision to leave was not her own, and that producers informed her that her deal would not be renewed. According to Walters' report, ABC executives had to decline Jones' employment due to a lack of funds for Jones in their market study.

Jones' contract was set to end on July 13, but ABC News discovered Jones had written an article about her new employment and that the decision was not her own, adding that "What you don't know is that my contract was not renewed for the tenth season." I feel like I was shot." Barbara Walters proclaimed that she had been "blindsided" and that Jones would no longer appear on "The View" the next day. Only programs in which she had been absent from the panel were rebroadcast when the series went into summer reruns. Jones was dropped from the first credits, leaving only Walters, Joy Behar, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Jones appeared on Larry King Live to respond to questions about why ABC had refused to renew her contract shortly after her dismissal. Jones maintained that every mention of her wedding had been specifically approved and negotiated by the network, not in breach of any policy. She denied that she had caused a ratings decrease and stated that the 2004-05 season had the highest ratings ever seen in the nine years she was a co-host.

Jones' departure sparked a long-running divide between her and Walters that spanned almost six years. Jones wrote an article in May 2008, responding to allegations in Barbara Walters' autobiography, Audition: "It is a sad day for an adulter when an icon of her lifetime, humiliating an innocent family with tales of her illegal conduct and in effect, selling a book." It reveals her authentic persona." Walters did not respond.

Jones returned to The View as a visitor on February 22, 2012, and he has performed numerous guest appearances since then.

Jones revealed on March 7, 2007, that she would return to her old network, Court TV—now rebranded truTV—as the company's new executive editor of daytime television—and that she would host an eponymous live weekday talk show based on the law and pop culture. On August 20, 2007, as a guest-driven live broadcast (with taped segments) covering recent news from pop culture, entertainment, and justice, the world's justice system, entertainment, and justice.

Jones' show was cancelled just six months later, and it was announced that Jones would leave truTV due to "changes in their programming selection." On February 1, 2008, the last episode of Star Jones aired. Jones stayed in the balance on her $24 million, three-year deal, but the network announced that Jones had been barred from the channel's lineup because the network considered Jones "too serious" for its tabloid-focused coverage. "[Jones'] show averaged 186,000 viewers and, by its last telecast, it was down in the neighborhood of 85,000," the Washington Post reported. By CNBC.com, the talk show was listed as one of "10 Notable Talk Show Losers" in January 2011.

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Jones has hosted or hosted multiple cable television shows, including the HGTV show House Hunters in New York City (which "scored the highest household ratings in the cable channel's history"), the Michael Eric Dyson radio show, Larry King Live (where she interviewed Beyoncé Knowles while King was on vacation), and The Bad Girls Club's Season 2 reunion on the Oxygen Network.

In addition, she has appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (where she appeared as a judge in Drop Dead Diva in August 2012 and as a judge.

She has also worked as a legal advisor for The Insider and Dr. Phil, and she appears on The Wendy Williams Show frequently.

Jones appeared on a celebrity version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader on July 17, 2009, a New York City middle school for underserved populations.

Jones appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice's fourth season as a contestant. She came in fifth on the show, and she was forced to leave early because her brand promotion efforts in a TV commercial for OnStar were not well received by OnStar executives.

She is expected to start Divorce Court in the program's 40th season, which will begin on September 19, 2022. Faith Jenkins will be replaced by her.

You Must Stand for Something, or You'll Fall For Anything, a collection of autobiographical essays published in 1998, Jones is the author of a book entitled You Have to Stand for Something, or You'll Fall for Nothing. Shine: A Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Journey to Find Love (2006), her second book, Embracing her personal life, including her marriage and extreme weight loss. In March 2011, Satan's Sisters, a roman à clef of a fictional television talk show starring five women of conflicting temperaments, she released a third book. On VH1, a scripted television series based on Satan's Sisters, Daytime Divas, aired for one season from June 5 to July 31, 2017. Jones appeared as an executive producer on the show and appeared as herself in the episode on July 24, 2017.

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