Rosie O'Donnell Officially Joining 'The View' 
 
 Rosie O'Donnell On 'The View' Again -- Officially Joining As Co-Host 
 
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 has made her deal with "" ... sources connected with the negotiations tell TMZ.We're told the show will make the announcement shortly. TMZ broke the story ﻿ ... the negotiations fired up a few days ago and the deal was almost completed by end of business day Monday.The deal is now complete. Rosie will joinon the show. As we reported, producers are also looking for a Latina and a conservative . Two conservative candidates who are being scoped areand'View' fans remember ... Rosie always made things interesting. 

 Rosie O'Donnell in "Serious Talks" to Rejoin The View Seven Years After Her Contentious Exit 
 
 Everything's coming up Rosie! With the recent cast shake-up at The View, speculation is rampant about who will fill Jenny McCarthy's and Sherri Shepherd's soon-to-be vacant chairs at the table. (Barbara Walters also left this year, but of her own volition; she retired in May.) One frontrunner at the moment, a source confirms to Us Weekly, is former co-host Rosie O'Donnell, who left the show amid controversy some seven years ago. 
 
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 The talk show vet, 52, is "in serious talks" to rejoin the ABC series in a leading role, the insider tells Us. "Rosie is very close to signing. They aren't seriously auditioning anyone else until the deal is done, because Rosie will get a major say [in her co-hosts]," the source says. (TMZ first reported news of O'Donnell's negotiations.) 
 
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 O'Donnell served as moderator on The View from 2006 to 2007, at which point she broke her contract and made an early exit. During her tenure on the show, she publicly feuded with conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, culminating in a heated on-air exchange (complete with a split screen!) in May 2007. The fight got ugly—and personal—with O'Donnell calling Hasselbeck "cowardly." She left the show immediately afterward. 
 
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 "I didn't want to argue for a living," the comedian later told Oprah Winfrey of why she quit. "It was not my show, and I didn't have the control that I was used to. And the executive producer and I did not gel." 
 
 O'Donnell steered clear of The View for seven years, but in February 2014, show creator Walters asked her back as a guest. (At that point, Hasselbeck had already left for her new gig on Fox & Friends.) 
 
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 "I have great affection for Rosie and we have remained in contact through the years," Walters said of O'Donnell's much-hyped appearance. "I am happy to welcome her back to the program. She is always a lively and engaging guest and a part of the show's successful history."
– ABC is starting to fill in Whoopi Goldberg's future seatmates on the View. TMZ reports that Rosie O'Donnell has already signed on, with the producers still on the hunt for a Latina and a conservative. (Abby Hunstman is apparently in the running for the latter category.) Fans will recall that O'Donnell served as moderator on the show in 2006-07 before breaking her contract in the wake of a nasty on-air feud with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, notes US Weekly. Today, the outgoing Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy played nice before the cameras, reportedly on the network's orders.