What Star Jones Feud?!?

 

If you were expecting Barbara Walters to continue the back-and-forth sound byte war between her and former “View” colleague Star Jones during Walters’ book signing Thursday at the Trover Shop bookstore, you left sadly disappointed.

 

First, some background: Jones left “The View” nearly two years ago … and not on pleasant terms. And Walters, in her new book, “Audition,” discusses Jones’ lavish wedding and her obesity … and not in pleasant tones.

 

As a result, Jones told Us Weekly magazine this week: “It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character.” (The adultery charge stems from Walters’ admission in “Audition” that she had a past affair with married Sen. Edward Brooke during the 1970s.)

 

Back to the present: As soon as Walters emerged from her black S.U.V. and headed towards a packed Trover’s (with a linebending around the corner with fans hoping to get their copy of “Audition” signed), the reporter scrum pressed Walters to respond to Jones’ diss in US Weekly.

 

“What comment?” said Walters. “You mean about her divorce?” No, Barbara. Don’t you follow the news? When given a Cliff Notes version, Walters then said, “Oh, I haven’t read that. I had wonderful memories of Star and I’d like to keep it that way.”

 

Walters’ affair with Brooke was another topic she didn’t care to dwell on. “It was five pages in a 600-page book,” said Walters. “It’s a tiny part of the book. I’ve said all I want to say about that.” Walters did say that she wrote Virginia Sen. John Warner, whom she once dated, to let her know she’d be in town, but the Virginia senator is out of town. “He sent me an email saying he values our long friendship and so do I.”

 

Oh, and one more topic she wouldn’t talk about: “Barbara, should Hillary Clinton drop out of the race?” we asked her. “Oh, I’m not going to comment on that.”

 

For a talk show host, she sure doesn’t to talk about, well, anything.