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Star Jones to return for a day on ‘The View’

NEW YORK

Apparently, enough water has flowed under the bridge for Barbara Walters and Star Jones to reunite for a day.

“The View” announced Wednesday that Jones will appear on the daytime talk show Feb. 22 to promote an awareness campaign about heart disease among women.

Walters and Jones had a falling-out in 2006 when Jones, one of the five original co-hosts of the daytime chat show, exited “The View.” ABC decided not to renew her contract, and Jones took Walters by surprise by announcing June 27 that she would be leaving the show.

That exit came more quickly than expected. Walters wouldn’t allow her back the next day.

Sergio Mendes says ‘Rio’ sequel likely

NEW YORK

Sergio Mendes, who scored an Oscar nomination for his song “Real In Rio,” says the animated film most likely will have a sequel.

Mendes said “Rio” director Carlos Saldanha may want to tie the sequel to the 2014 World Cup, which will take place in Brazil.

“I think the plan is for the movie to come three or four months before the World Cup,” Mendes said Tuesday afternoon.

“Fox has been talking about [it], and it looks like it’s going to happen,” he continued. “We’re going to have a meeting I think next week and Carlos is coming to town to tell us the story, and it looks like it’s a go.”

Mary Mary singer gives birth to girl

NEW YORK

Erica Campbell of the Grammy-winning sister duo Mary Mary has given birth to a daughter.

Campbell’s representative says Zaya Monique was born Tuesday. The baby weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces.

Erica and her sister Tina comprise the gospel duo.

It’s the third child for Campbell and her husband, producer-songwriter Warryn Campbell. The singer said she was blessed by the baby’s birth and that the family “couldn’t be more happy than we are today.”

Campbell will be taking a few weeks off, but she’ll soon have to return to work. Mary Mary, known for hits such as “Shackles” and “God in Me,” have a self-titled reality show that debuts March 29 on We TV.

Liz Taylor-owned art sells for $2M in NYC

NEW YORK

A 17th-century portrait that once hung in the living room of Elizabeth Taylor’s Bel Air home — and was only recently reattributed to the Dutch master Frans Hals — sold at auction Wednesday for $2 million.

“Portrait of a Man,” painted in the early 1630s, went to a buyer bidding by phone at Christie’s sale of Old Masters.

Its presale estimate had been $700,000 to $1 million.

Vindicator wire services