Roseanne Barr fires intern over fake MySpace post

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Roseanne Barr has fired an intern who posted a drunken-sounding ramble purporting to be from the veteran comedian on her MySpace homepage.

Barr, 54, the star of long-running US television sitcom "Roseanne," said in a statement on her website, Roseanneworld.com, that the intern responsible for the bogus post had been sacked.

"I would rather just smell like pee, like old ladies are meant to do. Aloha," one of the bogus entries on Barr's MySpace page on Monday said. The postings were swiftly removed.

Barr apologized for the incident. "One of the interns who was administering my MySpace page has been fired," she wrote. "I apologize for the offensive blogging that went on there last night."

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