SHERRI SHEPHERD
Sherri Shepherd recently trudged through the rain to the View studio only to find she'd forgotten her ID and the security guard didn't recognize her. ''I was going, When is this celebrity thing going to kick in?'' That regular-gal quality has turned the 40-year-old former legal secretary and comic into the daytime chatfest's newest star. Charged with the task of keeping viewers interested in the post-Rosie View, Shepherd succeeded by simply being her unvarnished self. She won't apologize for keeping things real. ''I have a lot of life experience. What I have to say matters.'' Jennifer Armstrong
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