Star Jones cuts ties with law career
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Star Jones Reynolds has finally cut ties with her former law career. A host of ABC's daytime talk show The View, she listed her profession as TV personality instead of attorney for the first time last year while filling out customs forms during a European trip.
"I guess I've crossed over to the dark side," she said. "It felt truthful. I'm sure it's strange for my father, who wants to know where all the money went for law school."
Jones Reynolds worked as an assistant district attorney for six years and has been doing television since 1992.
She drew criticism for plugging her lavish November wedding to banker Al Reynolds on The View and for a Web site that promoted the companies who donated items for the wedding party's goodie bags.
"I wouldn't do one thing different," she told The Associated Press. "I don't want to be rude and make people think I don't care what other people think, but it was my wedding and I don't care what other people think. I live my life that way."
Besides, Jones Reynolds said, the only person she had to please is her husband.
"He got a kick out of the fact I was so goofy," she said. "The wedding was for the 8-year-old in me and the marriage was for the woman. That's why you haven't heard one thing about the marriage. That's no one's business."
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland
