“The View’s” Rosie O’Donnell is responding to rumors that her co-host, Rosie Perez, got the boot after just four months on the job.
As previously reported by Variety, Perez, who has taken the month of January off to appear in the Broadway hit Fish in the Dark, allegedly won’t be returning to the Hot Topics table alongside O’Donnell, Nicole Wallace and Whoopi Goldberg once the play wraps.
Spurred by recent reports, O’Donnell has now come forward to set the record straight.
“OK, here we go again. Whoopi is resting her back and will be back next week on Tuesday. Her back is healing. Thank the Lord above. And no matter what you read anywhere, Rosie Perez is also coming back after she is done rehearsing her play. Her play, the new Larry David play that she’s starring in, opens soon. And then she will be back here at her job,” she said during a recent episode of the morning talk show.
Well, there you have it. Perez’s status with the show has not changed.
