From there, Shepherd’s star continued to rise, eventually earning a spot as co-host on the popular daytime talk show “The View,” after original co-host Star Jones was unceremoniously dismissed for doing things like having sponsors pay for her wedding and not coming clean on her gastric bypass surgery to explain her vast weight loss. On this show, Shepherd has made a variety of controversial statements. Not the least of these was her claim to not know whether or not the Earth is flat, and that R&B singer Shirley Caesar is “the black Patti LaBelle” The latter statement is controversial because both parties are black. She also once told Prince on the air that she had been wanting to have sex with him since he was a little girl.
