On this morning's "The View," moderator Rosie O'Donnell talked about telling Warner Bros. execs that she is a lesbian when she started her old talk show back in 1995, and said that she kept it mainly under wraps to avoid controversy. "At the time when my show was on, there was no Drudge Report, there was no Perez Hilton, there was no TMZ, and you could be gay and have a big successful career and no one would ask you -- no journalist ever asked me," Rosie said.

In response, TMZ defends itself on its website saying: "We're not in the business of outing people -- so back off, girlfriend!... Not that there's anything wrong with coming out of the closet, but -- yo, Ro! -- get your facts straight! TMZ has, for the record, never outed anyone; gay, bisexual, alien or otherwise, and that's really not what we're about."