TMZ has officially confirmed that Rosie O’Donnell is leaving The View, and will make the announcement on today’s show. The shows producers are apparently looking for her replacement as my excited little fingers type this.

Ding dong, the witch is gone! When she leaves the show, can The View’s producers let confetti fall out of the ceiling to celebrate, like the time she did when Britney announced she eas splitting from K-Fed?

I really hope they get a decent replacement for The View — someone who could hold her own in a discussion but doesn’t overpower the show like Rosie did. There was always some verbal diarrhoea coming out of that woman’s mouth. Racist comments about Chinese people? Check. Insults to B-list celebrities whom she has personal vendettas with? Check. Stupid comments about American Idol being weightist and racist, even though Ruben Studdard won AI’s Season 2 and he isn’t by any means skinny or Caucasian? Check. It was like her mouth ran away with her and her brain was playing catch up all the time.

I wonder what the show will do now without Rosie. As annoying as she is, she brought in the controversy, which brought in the ratings. A lot of people are not big fans of watching middle aged women bitch about things for an hour, but at least the whole “what will Rosie say next” factor made people tune in.

Oh well! At least I don’t have to be afraid of a day when she comes to the show and does her arguing in haiku form, just like the horrible way she does it on her website. I pray that someone really does not allow this woman to have her own talk show again. She used to go on about Tom Cruise all the time and have showtunes blaring out at every opportunity. If someone allows that, my already frazzled little mind will just pack up and leave Chez Jessie — it would go on strike after watching obnoxious shit like that all the time.

Update by Celebitchy: Rosie has announced in a statement that she is leaving the show in June, saying “My needs for the future just didn’t dovetail with what ABC was able to offer me.”

And here’s the video of Rosie announcing that she’s leaving. How classy she is: