Rosie O’Donnell Says She Had $100 Million When Her Talk Show Ended
What To Know
- Rosie O’Donnell ended her successful talk show after accumulating $100 million.
- She turned down a $100 million offer to continue the show.
- Since her talk show, O’Donnell has remained active in entertainment.
Rosie O’Donnell says he had nine figures in her bank account when her hit self-named talk show wrapped its run — and she rejected an offer to double those savings.
The comedian told Page Six in a recent interview that she decided to end The Rosie O’Donnell Show after discovering she had accrued $100 million.
“When I heard that [number], I thought, ‘OK, now I’m done,” she said. “And everyone was like, ‘Why are you leaving?’”
The reason, she explained, is that she “had enough money to take care of everyone in [her] life, philanthropy, and strangers,” and she wanted to be present in her children’s lives.
“I wanted to be at their softball games,” she said, “I wanted to be at school plays.”
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And to the shock of Warner Bros. executives, she declined the studio’s offer of another $100 million for another two years of the talk show.
“They were like, ‘Why would you say no?’” she recalled. “And I was like, ‘Because I already have that money and if I think I need more, something’s wrong with me.’ … I don’t get the billionaires. I don’t get how people only measure their life in money, not what they can do for other people.”
The Rosie O’Donnell Show ran for six seasons between 1996 and 2002. The syndicated series won five consecutive Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Talk Show, and O’Donnell won four consecutive Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Talk Show Host.
Since then, O’Donnell has served as a panelist on The View, hosted a nightly OWN talk show titled The Rosie Show, and acted in the TV series American Gigolo and The L Word: Generation Q. Having decamped to Ireland recently, O’Donnell is back in the United States and back in the headlines with an upcoming guest-hosting stint on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and an Off-Broadway one-woman show titled Rosie O’Donnell: Common Knowledge.
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She measured her life in money, too. It's just that she had a lower ceiling than a billionaire, but $75 times more than mine.
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Amen !! Well said !!
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So she has $100 Mil and wants to help people. We’ll get it going Rosie ! Send me and my pal @Antonio some $$ we could use it !! Then again as I don’t want to owe you a dime, send my share to Antonio as well !! 👍
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Can't wait for Rosie to guest host "Jimmy Kimmel Live"!
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Thought she didn't want to be an American anymore. How much money is the "Jimmy" show paying her?
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Then she can ( like The Boss Springsteen) afford to provide Direct food, housing, clothing, medical care for at least 3-4 Illegal Immigrants. And be responsible for their actions. So if she and Hollywood and other entertainer like The Boss. Coupled with George Soros, Oprah, Bill Gates, Bloomberg, Mark Cuban would all do that there wouldn’t be nearly as much of an Illegal Immigrant problem. They should all speak truth to power with a passion and DO just that ! But you know it’d probably be like when all those Illegal Immigrants flooded Martha’s Vineyard where Allot of elite Wealthy Democrats just happen to live. Funny thing they were Demanding those Illegals be removed immediately ! Where’d the truth to power go ?
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You forgot Billie Eyelash...
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Rosie was quite generous during the years she had her talk show, and she continues to be so today.
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All I have seen is her obsession; even her therapist told her to give it a rest...Rosie is not so Rosy. She said so herself.
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