Star Jones Biography
Star Jones is an American professional lawyer who also works as a writer, fashion designer, author, television personality, and supporter of diversity and women’s issues. She is most known for being one of the show’s original co-hosts on The View on ABC, where she appeared for nine seasons from 1997–1998 to 2005–2006.
How old is Star Jones? – Age
She is 60 years old as of 24 March 2022. She was born in 1962 in Badin, North Carolina, United States. Her real name is Starlet Marie Jones.
Star Jones Family – Education
Her stepfather, a municipal security chief, and mother, a human services supervisor, raised her in Trenton, New Jersey. Jones completed his education at Lawrenceville, New Jersey’s Notre Dame High School. She graduated from American University with a B.A. in Administration of Justice and was initiated into the Lambda Zeta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha. In 1987, Jones was admitted to the New York state bar after receiving a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center.
When did Star Jones get married? – Husband
On November 13, 2004, Jones wed investment banker Al Reynolds. More than thirty business sponsors provided wedding clothes and other event supplies for the wedding, which was held at Saint Bartholomew’s Church in New York City in front of 500 guests. Jones started using the name Star Jones Reynolds professionally after the wedding, but she changed it back to “Star Jones” in 2007 because she wanted to keep her public and private selves distinct. Ricardo Lugo, who served in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, and Jones announced their engagement on October 24, 2017.
How did Star Jones meet her husband?
They had startlingly identical screen identities. She met Chicago lawyer Ricardo Lugo through an online dating service.
How did Star Jones lose all that weight? – Weight Loss
She was renowned for her sharp wit and assertive demeanor as well as for her gradually worsening weight problem. Star was deemed morbidly fat in 2003 after gaining 307 pounds. She made the decision to have a gastric bypass. She never discussed her shifting figure with her followers, despite losing weight in front of a national TV audience. Star shed 160 pounds in the ensuing three years.
Star Jones Books
You Have to Stand for Something, or You’ll Fall for Anything, a collection of autobiographical essays, was written by Jones and released in 1998. Her second book, published in 2006 under the title Shine: A Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Journey to Finding Love, described the adjustments she made to her life, including getting married and losing a lot of weight. In March 2011, she published Satan’s Sisters, a roman à clef about a fictitious television chat show with five diametrically opposed women. Daytime Divas, a fictional television program based on Satan’s Sisters, ran on VH1 from June 5 to July 31, 2017. On the show, Jones worked as an executive producer and guest-starred as herself on July 24, 2017.
Star Jones Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $12 Million.
Star Jones The View
Jones’ nine-season stay on The View was occasionally marred by controversy. According to ABC, she alienated fans with her constant self-promotion. Jones instructed her to keep the details of her gastric bypass surgery a secret, and according to Barbara Walters, lying on the show turned viewers off. Later, it was discovered that Jones had promoted product placement in return for receiving these goods and services at no cost. Jones’s contract was set to expire on July 13; however, ABC learned that Jones had published an article with People magazine about her contract not being renewed after the program wrapped up on June 27.
Jones will no longer be a guest on “The View,” Barbara Walters said in an address to the audience, adding that she had been “blindsided.” Jones refuted claims that she was to blame for The View’s rating decline, asserting that the 2004–05 season saw The View’s highest ratings in the show’s prior nine seasons. She and Walters fell out after she left, and it lasted for almost six years. Jones visited The View once more on February 22, 2012.
Star Jones truTV
On March 7, 2007, Jones made the announcement that she would rejoin her former network, Court TV—now known as truTV—as its new executive editor of daytime programming and that she would host a live weekday talk show by the same name that would focus on the law and pop culture. On August 20, 2007, Star Jones made its debut as a guest-driven live broadcast (with pre-recorded pieces) that covered current events in the pop culture, entertainment, criminal, and justice industries.
Six months after her show’s cancellation, truTV said Jones was leaving due to “changes in their programming selection.” On February 1st, 2008, Star Jones’ final episode aired. Jones was paid out the remaining portion of her $24 million, three-year deal, and the network claimed that Jones was dropped from the lineup because she was “too serious” for the channel’s tabloid-focused programming. The Washington Post notes that despite having an average of 186,000 viewers, “[Jones’s] show was down in the neighborhood of 85,000 by its final transmission.” The talk program was listed by CNBC.com as one of the “10 Notable Talk Show Failures” in January 2011.