NEW YORK - Rosie O’Donnell says she’s out of the running to replace
Bob Barker as host of “The Price Is Right.”
O’Donnell, a superfan of the
CBS game show, said on her blog Friday that she had a “nice lunch” with the show’s producers.
Barker, 83, retired earlier this month after 35 years with the show, which is filmed in Los Angeles.
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Although O’Donnell has said she would love to fill Barker’s shoes, the 45-year-old comedian has changed her mind.
“Well, here’s the thing: I don’t really need a job,” O’Donnell says in a video posted Sunday on her Web site. “I’m in a weird position. I don’t need the money.” “So to get my entire family uprooted from their lives and move them across the country so that I can have a fantasy childhood indulgence, you know, job ... it just doesn’t seem fair.”
O’Donnell lives in Nyack, N.Y., near New York City, with her partner, Kelli, and their four children. She recently left ABC’s “The View
” after a heated on-air squabble with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.