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Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s co-headlining tour “Fame Kills” has been cancelled, according to MTV News.

No reason for the cancellation has been given. The tour’s promoter, Live Nation, issued a press release that stated ticket refunds are available at the place of purchase, and tickets bought online or over the phone will be automatically refunded.

While the tour has been generating hype, rumors of its cancellation have been surfacing for days. A large amount of the negativity has stemmed from West’s interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at last month’s MTV Video Music Awards.

The tour, which West announced unexpectedly at an appearance on The View last June, and was scheduled to kick off in Phoenix on Nov. 10, was not confirmed by either of the artists’ reps until mid-September.

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While Kanye West may have claimed to Jay Leno to be keeping a low profile on things after his Taylor Swift-MTV Video Music Awards debacle, the new video clip he posted on his blog begs to differ.

The promo video released on Wednesday, Sept. 23 for his new “Fame Kills” tour with Lady Gaga is anything but low profile, according to MTV News.

The video clip, posted by West under the headline, “What Happened to All the Rock Stars? Fame Killed Them!” is a slow motion film featuring a topless Gaga covering herself and wrapped in the arms of a black man while soft, moody music plays in the background. When 30 seconds of this pass, the name of the tour appears on the screen along with a voice that says, “Fame Kills!” and then “West + Gaga” flashes across.

West first made an announcement about the tour earlier this summer at an appearance on “The View,” but it wasn’t a sealed deal until last week. The “Fame Kills” tour is set to begin on Nov. 10 in Phoenix and wrap up Jan. 24 in Dallas.

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During his appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Wednesday (June 10), rapper Kanye West announced a co-headlining tour with Lady Gaga.

“She’s talented and so incredible that she’s not an opening act,” he said of Lady Gaga on “The View”. “We’re doing it together, with no opening act.”

West also took the opportunity to talk about “American Idol” winner Kris Allen’s cover of “Heartless,” and admit that there are artists who can sing the song better than the rapper himself.

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WHOOPI GOLDBERG has been confirmed as the new co-host of popular U.S. magazine show THE VIEW.

The comedienne/actress-turned-radio presenter has been hired to replace outspoken Rosie O’Donnell on the morning show, where a panel of women discuss the latest topics and interview celebrities.

Goldberg has made a series of guest appearances on the show during its 10 year run, and producers insist she was always a top choice.

O’Donnell quit the show at the beginning of the summer (07) following a series of rows with co-hosts and producers.

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Rosie O’Donnell took “the Meredith chair,” as she called it, on talk show The View today.

Walking onto the stage arm-in-arm with Barbara Walters, O’Donnell complimented her co-hosts, Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and assured the audience that she was “taking my medication and everything will be fine.”

She also assured Walters that she’d notify her when blogging on Rosie.com after Walters was reportedly upset about some of the comments O’Donnell made on her blog about sharing the limelight on The View.

O’Donnell wasn’t all sugar, though. “She talked about having conversations in the bath with her daughter about pubic hair,” the Post Chronicle reports, “looked ready to spar when Joy bizarrely ascribed a Japanese accent to Rosie’s son Blake, and expressed great joy at the USTA National Tennis Center naming itself after lesbian icon Billie Jean King.”

Throwing back to her days as a solo host, however, O’Donnell joked about flowers from former crush Tom Cruise and The View gave out two day cruises to the audience.

Meredith Vieira may have put “The View” behind her, but it looks as though she doesn’t believe in burning any bridges.

E! Online is reporting that Vieira has issued an apology to Barbara Walters, after she was quoted in Time magazine as saying “The View” was a “joke.”

The comments were made in response to questions asking is she had watched the show since her exit, and what she thought of Star Jones-Reynolds’ departure.

“I didn’t watch at all. I needed to think ahead. But I have to admit, the day after Star made her announcement, I watched. I feel very sad for everything that’s happened and for everybody involved. I’m proud of the work we did there, but it’s not a good time in the history of that show. It’s hard to watch. It sort of became a joke,” Vieira was quoted as saying.

Vieira said that her remarks were taken out of context, and that the “joke” she referred to was the media’s frenzy after Jones-Reynolds’ departure.

“In those days following Star’s departure, in particular, it became a feeding frenzy, and I felt the media was turning the show into a joke…that it was becoming fodder for lots of mean-spirited articles. I found that hurtful. There was lots of ridicule, which I felt was unfair to lots of wonderful people there. I did call Barbara because I was very upset, and she was upset, too. She said [the 'joke' remark] ‘doesn’t sound like you, but if it was you, I’ll have to hurt your husband,’ ” Vieira told the New York Post.

Star Jones will be exiting “The View,” People.com reports.

Jones made the official announcement on Tuesday’s show, ending the speculation that has graced the tabloids ever since Rosie O?Donnell was announced as the replacement for Meredith Vieira who left “The View” to replace Katie Couric at NBC’s “Today Show.” O’Donnell has made public her criticism for Jones, particularily in Jones’ recent weight loss.

“Something’s been on my heart for a little bit, and after much prayer and counsel I feel like this is the right time to tell you that the show is moving in another direction for its tenth season and I will not be returning as co-host next year,” Jones said on the air, which prompted shocked looks and comments from her co-hosts.

Jones told People the reason she left “The View” was not because of O’Donnell’s arrival, but because her contract was not renewed by the show for the 10th season.

“What you don’t know is that my contract was not renewed for the tenth season. I feel like I was fired,” she tells People magazine, adding she was told her contract would not be renewed just days before O’Donnell was named Vieira?s replacement.