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Rosie Right for The Price?

Thu., Jun. 21, 2007 8:45 AM PDT by Sarah Hall

If anybody asks, Rosie O'Donnell is ready to come on down.

The ex-View cohost has expressed interest in taking over the reins of The Price Is Right from newly retired host Bob Barker, writing on her Website that she "sure would" accept an offer if one came her way.

"I LOVE THE PRICE IS RIGHT," she wrote, in a relatively rare use of capital letters.

O'Donnell said she was meeting with Price producers CBS and FremantleMedia this week to discuss the possibility of becoming the show's new host.

Barker, who resigned the position this year after 35 years as host said backstage at Friday's Daytime Emmy Awards that he considered O'Donnell fully capable of handling the gig.

"She knows the show," Barker said. "There's no doubt in my mind she could do the show."

However, he later clarified his comments, explaining that they were not meant as an endorsement.

"I have not been asked for my opinion, nor have I expressed one," Barker told the AP Wednesday. "I think there are several candidates who could do the show, and Rosie is certainly one of them."

CBS and FremantleMedia had no comment on the situation, while O'Donnell's rep said she was currently "meeting with several networks about a lot of different ideas."

Other hosts reportedly in contention for the Price gig include former E! personality Todd Newton (E! Online is a division of E! Networks), Mark Steines of Entertainment Tonight, John O'Hurley, George Hamilton and Drew Carey.

One person who may not be pulling for O'Donnell to get the job is her former View coworker and sparring partner Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

In an interview with Access Hollywood that aired Tuesday, Hasselbeck said she and O'Donnell have yet to make up almost a month after the heated on-air squabble that resulted in O'Donnell's early departure from the chatfest.

"Truthfully, I think a friend is someone who you have positive communications with, so I don't know if I would define us as friends right now," Hasselbeck said.

That's a change in tune from her party line immediately after the confrontation, when she claimed she and O'Donnell were "in communication a lot" and had been exploring the "power of forgiveness."

For her part, O'Donnell has said from the time she left the show that she did not envision mending her relationship with Hasselbeck.

"I haven't spoken to her, and I probably won't," she said in a video message on her blog, "and I think it's just as well."

In fact, O'Donnell has doubts that she and Hasselbeck were ever truly friends at all.

"I never tried harder to be friends with anyone than I did with Elisabeth, but I don't think we ended up there anywhere close," she said.

As usual, Hasselbeck disagreed, insisting that she and O'Donnell did have a "true friendship" at one point, despite their wildly different political views. However, even she acknowledges that ship may have sailed.

"I did define us as friends, but I'm not going to make the leap to assume that we will or will not be friends in the future," she said.