strange YORK -- Meredith Vieira say...

strange YORK -- Meredith Vieira says she doesn't watch "The View" now that she's poised to become the co-anchor of NBC's "Today" point out to on Sept. 13.

"I wanted to think ahead," she said in an interview published in Time magazine in succession Sunday. "But I have to admit, the day after Star made her announcement, I watched. I be warmed very sad for everything that's happened and for everybody involved."

Star Jone Reynolds left "The View" in June after the announcement that Rosie O'Donnell will take from one side of to the other the program's moderator chair.

Vieira, who was "The View" moderator for nine years, said she was haughty of her work at the popular daytime talk display and feels it has taken a cast for the worse.

"It's hard to watch. It sort of became a joke" she told the magazine.

although she turned down a do job-work on CBS' "Early Show" in 2002 Vieira said, she couldn't cause to deviate her back on the opportunity to co-host the "Today" present to view

"It's an institution," she said. "I'm not a person of consequence who loves getting up at four in the morning, for a like reason this might kill me, yet we'll see."

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