#6. Rosie O'Donnell and The View
Theirs was a brief, stormy, but fruitful relationship. When O'Donnell
replaced Meredith Viera on the all-gal chat show in 2006, the outspoken
comic's rants and public feuds helped spike ratings and set The View
apart from daytime TV's blander alternatives. But too much pepper spoiled
the soup. In May, O'Donnell left a month before her contract ended and two
days after an especially long and nasty on-camera tiff with her frequent
foil, conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Now the stay-at-home crowd
seeking villainesses has to stick to soaps.