Patti LaBelle: View co-host?

This article doesn't really confirm anything one way or the other. Apparently someone supposedly close to singer Patti LaBelle has revealed that she may or may not take the permanent co-host gig if it was offered. Brilliant. Theoretically she would think about it if she was offered. But she hasn't been offered. So who cares? Whatever. Here it is...

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Patti LaBelle: Ready to See 'The View'

Is Patti LaBelle the latest black notable in the running for a co-host gig on ABC's popular chat-fest 'The View'?

Possibly, a source close to the Grammy Award winning R&B legend told 'The BV Newswire' today.

"She would definitely consider it," the insider said about the prospect of having the Philadelphia soul sister shake things up on a daily basis with Barbara Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselback.

The motor-mouthed diva would be a far cry from some of the other black faces - including Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd and Gayle King - the beleaguered Walters-helmed talker has rolled out as guest co-hosts lately.

Since the headline grabbing Rosie O'Donnell vacated her seat as chief moderator of 'The View,' in May, there are still two slots to fill to make up the quintet. The show's original co-host Star Jones-Reynolds "prematurely" announced that she was departing the show a year before, causing a media stir for Walters.

LaBelle, who is enjoying a near 50-year career in the music business (in 1958, she formed the quartet The Ordettes), is no stranger for the talk-show television format. Aside from being a featured guest on every major chat-fest, the woman formerly known as Patricia Holt-Armstead voiced the theme to 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' for a few seasons in the late 1990s, following her numerous and memorable appearances on the show, while promoting her best-selling cookbook 'LaBelle Cuisine.'
The 63-year-old former Labelle front-woman, who is known to be one of the more outspoken personalities in her class, also hosts her own TV One show, 'Living It Up with Patti LaBelle.'

A spokeswoman for LaBelle was not available at press time.