**FILE** Sherri Shepherd poses at a film premiere in this March 24, 2005 file photo, in Los Angeles. Shepherd is among the candidates to fill the chair on ABC's "The View" left unoccupied since the stormy departure of Star Jones Reynolds last year. Whoopi Goldberg was officially named to replace Rosie O'Donnell's on the daytime talk show on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007.(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)