"The View" Gossip

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Barbara Walters has revealed that Star Jones had her ‘View’ co-hosts hide the fact she’d had gastric bypass surgery.

“She decided to have a gastric bypass operation, but then she decided not to tell anybody,” Walters told Oprah Winfrey Tuesday.

“Then we had to lie on the set everyday because she said it was portion control and Pilates,” Walters said. “Well, we knew it wasn’t portion control and Pilates.”

Winfrey responded, “We in the audience go, that’s some damn Pilates teacher!”

Walters – who is on a press tour for her memoir, Audition, in which she admits to an affair with a married senator in the ’70s – also told Winfrey she has no regrets over on-air spats with former View co-host Rosie O’Donnell.

Jones, 46, last year told Diane Sawyer she underwent the surgery because, “I didn’t want to die fat. Because that’s not happy.”

She says she didn’t reveal details of the surgery because:, “[I was] scared out of my mind. “I was ashamed, I was fearful, I was hurt.

“So I said ‘medical intervention,’ which was the truth, but it wasn’t the full truth. It would have been so much easier to simply say I had this weight loss surgery, but I couldn’t do it.”