Prince William’s newly-jilted ex, Kate Middleton, is said to be in talks for a one week guest host job on women’s roundtable talkshow “The View.” Rosie O’Donnel is leaving her bombastic post this June, and token conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck will go on maternity leave at some point.

Hasselback recently announced she is three months’ pregnant, which leaves two spots to fill. Producers are said to be wooing Kate, 25, for a guest host job that could turn into something longer term:

Prince William’s just-dumped crumpet, elegant Brit hottie Kate Middleton, will audition for the newly vacant Star Jones/Rosie O’Donnell slot! Never one to get caught with her knickers down, Barbara Walters has already been brainstorming with producers about fresh new faces, and once Rosie declard she’s through as a regular, the call went out to Kate. She’s mulling what’s called a “one-week co-host stint” because “audition” sounds so terribly…ugly, dahlings don’t you think?

[From National Enquirer print edition, Mike Walker’s column, May 12, 2007]

From what I could gather about Kate, she graduated with an art history degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 2005, and has been working an assistant accessories buyer at High Street department store Jigsaw. She dated Prince William from 2003 to recently, when they broke up amid rumors that the prince wanted to party and/or had was told to leave her by his father, prince Charles, if he wasn’t ready to get married.

An art history degree and retail experience doesn’t seem to make her qualified for a talk show, but it’s not really a demanding position, and would seem to depend on personality more than anything.

Other reports have Rosanne Barr slated to take over for Rosie. She recently told Larry King “I’m not looking for a job… Well, I want $10 million like Rosie.”

Joan Rivers, Whoopi Godlberg, Kathie Lee Gifford and Connie Chung are other possible guest hosts. Producers need to find a few women to audition as they will have two seats to fill as mentioned. [Details From National Enquirer print edition, May 12, 2007]

Middleton is shown in the header image at the wedding of Laura Parker Bowles and Harry Lopes on 5/6/2006 and vacationing in Italy with Prince William on 9/2006. Pictures from Photorazzi.