Miss Jones

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Miss Jones ("Jonesy") is the stage name of Tarsha Nicole Jones who is the host of Miss Jones in the Morning on the New York City radio station Hot 97. Jones is known for being an opinionated fat pig, which sometimes causes controversy.

The show airs weekdays from 6 am to 10 am, and is currently in danger of being cancelled.

Jones graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A. in music. Before becoming involved with radio, Jones sang professionally during the mid-1990s but was unable to achieve commercial success as a solo singer. But she did enjoy some success with her 1994 hit "Where I Wanna Be Boy". It hit the both the R&B Top 30 and Dance Top 30 (#21/#24).

Miss Jones has been the center of controversy on several occasion, most notably for the controversial tsunami song titled “USA for Indonesia”. On January 18, 2005, Jones twice aired the song ridiculing victims of the recent tsunami disaster in Indonesia nearly one month earlier.

Facing lone opposition from on-air colleague Miss Info, who distanced herself from the song by saying "minus Miss Info" after DJ Todd Lynn made the following introduction "Starring the Miss Morning--the Miss Jones in the Morning players."

Jones responded with the following: "If you feel that way why are you even on the show? Why do you always have to make it known you are separate?...You're always trying to undermine everything's thats done here... I know you feel you're superior probably because you're Asian, but you're not." The song was played for four days reportedly after complaints following the first airing. Responding to the public backlash, the station issued an on-air an apology on January 24.

Jones eventually made the following apology to her listeners:

"I apologize to all who have been offended by my poor decision to go along with playing that insulting (to say the least) Tsunami song. I should have known better and I didn't. So I'm sorry and hopefully we can move forward from this, or I can move forward from this being a better hostess, because I am better than that, and I know better than that -- and you deserve better radio than that."

In January 2006, Jones was again at the center of a controversy due to remarks she made that were considered racially offensive. Jones offended many members of New York City's large Carribean community when she referred to Roger Toussaint, the Trinidadian-American leader of striking transit workers, as a "dumb coconut who probably doesn't have a green card" and "should probably be deported."

In late August 2006, the personality saw more controversy, when she insulted radio guests Beyonce and Tina Knowles. She was subsequently suspended from the station for two weeks.[1]