Ivanka Eschews The View
Apparently the view from the ivory tower is good enough for Ivanka Trump right now.
Despite the fact that The View is theoretically once again a Trump-friendly zone, the 25-year-old businesswoman and TV personality says that she has no interest in joining the morning chat fest.
"There's zero chance I would do that," Trump told E! News' Ryan Seacrest Tuesday in response to an item in the New York Post naming her as a candidate to replace the not-so-dearly departed Rosie O'Donnell.
"I'm working on the sexiest projects around the world. So, to me, to be on a television show every single day at a designated period of time just wouldn't work in terms of my schedule," the VP of real estate development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization said.
Checking to see whether Trump had turned down a valid offer or whether this was more of a hypothetical Rosie-doing-The Price Is Right sort of thing, Seacrest asked the onetime Seventeen cover girl whether she had been offered the job.
"I've gotten a lot of requests. Let's just leave it at that," Trump replied.
About Barbara Walters, who has known her dad for years but seemed to side with O'Donnell during the pair's protracted feud, Trump said that she thinks the veteran newswoman is "terrific."
"She's done a great job," Trump said. "She has had differences with my father. I think his problems mostly lay with Rosie and somehow those problems boiled over. I think Barbara Walters is great and that show is much better than it was."
Taking another chance on the Trump name, however, is NBC, which has decided to renew The Apprentice for at least one more season, ensuring that Ivanka will have at least one sexy television project in the works come fall.
The Peacock Network had originally left the Mark Burnett-produced show off the 2007-08 schedule, but after taking a meeting with Burnett and the Donald, recently appointed NBC Entertainment president Ben Silverman deemed the franchise too valuable to give up, despite its steady decline in the ratings for the past five seasons.
"Ben Silverman gets it," Donald Trump said approvingly, no longer vowing to take his empire elsewhere. "I think he's a guy with vision and a great leader."


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