Sherri Shepherd got a major career boost when she joined “The View” in 2007. The comic replaced Star Jones on the roundtable talk show helmed by creator Barbara Walters after first filling in for the attorney.

Walters and the show’s producers loved Shepherd so much that she was soon invited to return as a series regular. “I hit so many checkboxes — they loved that I was the Black single mom, funny, and willing to tell everything about my life,” she told Vulture in a feature story published on Sept. 19.

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Still, she initially turned down offers to claim a permanent seat at the table multiple times. Because of that, “They didn’t call me back for about nine months; [“The View co-creator] Bill [Geddie] had t

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