Star Jones was one of sixteen contestants of the fourth installment of The Celebrity Apprentice in 2011, coming in fifth place.
33 Facts About Star Jones
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Star Jones was born in Badin, North Carolina and grew up in Trenton, New Jersey with her mother, a human services administrator, and her stepfather, a municipal security chief.
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Star Jones graduated from Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
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Star Jones earned a JD degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1986, and was admitted to the New York state bar in 1987.
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From 1986 to 1991, Star Jones was a prosecutor with the Kings County District Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, New York.
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Star Jones was the only reporter to interview Simpson during his civil trial, which she covered for American Journal.
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In 1997, Star Jones joined The View as one of its original four co-hosts.
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Star Jones, who had been diagnosed as morbidly obese, began to undergo dramatic weight loss beginning in 2003.
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When she married investment banker Al Reynolds in 2004, Star Jones talked about her wedding plans on The View for months beforehand, including "plugs" for her suppliers, such as the wedding invitations, clothing, and airlines.
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Brian Frons, ABC's president of daytime television, told Entertainment Weekly that Star Jones should have been fired long ago and that he should have encouraged Walters to fire her the previous year when "her connections to viewers hit an all-time low".
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ABC said that viewers did not like Star Jones talking about her weight loss and her wedding preparations.
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Star Jones' departure caused a rift between her and Walters that lasted nearly six years.
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Star Jones' name was removed from the opening credits, leaving only Walters, Joy Behar, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
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On February 22,2012, Star Jones returned to The View as a guest, and has made subsequent guest appearances since then.
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Star Jones premiered on August 20,2007, as a guest-driven live broadcast covering recent stories from the worlds of pop culture, entertainment, crime, and justice.
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Star Jones has hosted or guest-hosted numerous cable programs, including the HGTV program House Hunters in New York City, the Michael Eric Dyson radio show, Larry King Live, and The Bad Girls Club Season 2 reunion on the Oxygen Network.
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Star Jones has served as a legal analyst for The Insider and Dr Phil, and often appears on The Wendy Williams Show.
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Star Jones was a contestant on the fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice.
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Star Jones placed fifth on the show, eliminated after her brand messaging efforts in a TV commercial for OnStar were not well received by the OnStar executives.
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Star Jones is set to become the judge on Divorce Court starting it the program's 40th season, to begin on September 19,2022.
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Star Jones is the author of You Have to Stand for Something, or You'll Fall for Anything, a collection of autobiographical essays published in 1998.
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Star Jones released a third book in March 2011, Satan's Sisters, a roman a clef about a fictional television talk show featuring five women of clashing temperaments.
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Star Jones is the President of the National Association of Professional Women.
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Star Jones created the organization's philanthropic endeavor, NAPW Foundation, to benefit the American Heart Association, of which Jones is a National Volunteer; the Breast Cancer Research Foundation; Dress For Success and Girls, Inc Jones conducts regular visits to NAPW Local Chapters and hosts the organization's annual National Networking Conference.
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Star Jones is the president of Professional Diversity Network.
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Star Jones is a member of its board of directors, becoming the youngest of a small circle of African-American women in the US leading a public company.
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In 2022 President Joe Biden named Star Jones to serve as the chair of the US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.
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Star Jones lost 160 pounds as a result of the procedure.
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Star Jones married investment banker Al Reynolds on November 13,2004.
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On March 17,2010, Star Jones underwent cardiac surgery related to a surgery she had three decades earlier for a thoracic tumor.
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On October 24,2017, Star Jones went public with her engagement to Ricardo Lugo, who recently worked in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
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Star Jones was one of 17 prosecutors laid off because of county budget issues.
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Star Jones married Ricardo Lugo on a cruise ship in the Bahamas on Sunday, March 25,2018.