Rosie O'Donnell: Decides to host satellite radio show

Rosie O'Donnell: Decides to host satellite radio show

Rosie O'Donnell is returning to the airwaves.

The former talk show queen is going to host a daily radio show for Sirius XM Radio Inc.  Scheduled to be launched sometime during this fall, "Rosie Radio" will feature forty seven year old comedian-actress discussing news and entertainment. Also she will chat with occasional guests. O'Donnell said that she was approached by the company after she had made appearance on Howard Stern's Sirius XM show earlier this year.

O'Donnell added, "He's been very encouraging,"  "After I did his show, they called and asked if I was interested. I don't really listen to radio, so I started thinking about it and listening. I asked if they could possibly do it at my house because that would really make it convenient for me with four kids, and they said yes, so I was like, 'Wow. Let's try that.'"

O'Donnell, who left "The View" in the year 2007 after a single tumultuous season, has planned to broadcast her two-hour call-in radio talk show from a studio being built inside the guest house on her New York property where she raised four children with partner Kelli Carpenter. She said that she  has been looking forward to regularly working again after being out of the spotlight.

Rosie O'Donnell continued, "I think it'll be good for me,"  "I've been lucky. I've had seven years of early retirement. All my kids are in school now, so all day long I have nothing to do. This was the first year that they were all in school all day, and I found myself very bored. I was saying to Kelli, we either need to get another kid or I'll have to go back to work."