Sherri Shepherd returning to The View next season

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Sherri Shepherd will be returning to The View for the show's 19th season in September
In her new role she will serve as a lead contributor and appear in approximately 50 episodes of the show
ABC is close to securing deals with actor Candace Cameron Bure and correspondent Paula Faris to become hosts next season
Shepherd announced she was leaving the show last year after she and ABC failed to agree on a contract
Shepherd has appeared on Broadway in Cinderella and joined the television show The Soul Man since leaving The View
Shepherd has also been involved in a custody dispute with estranged husband Lamar Sally over a child the pair had via surrogate

Published: 16:56 EST, 27 July 2015 | Updated: 18:38 EST, 27 July 2015

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Sherri Shepherd is returning to The View.

Just one year after the popular comedian and actor left the daytime talk show when she and ABC could not come to an agreement over the details of her new contract, it is being reported that Shepherd will be back for the start of the new season in September.

In her new role she will serve as a lead contributor and appear in approximately 50 episodes of the show.

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She's back: Sherri Shepherd will be returning to The View for the show's 19th season in September (above co-hosting in May)

Gone girl: Shepherd announced she was leaving the show last year after she and ABC failed to agree on a contract (above with former co-host Jenny McCarthy last August)

Deadline Hollywood reports that in addition to Whoopi Goldberg, Raven-Symone, and Michelle Collins, ABC is close to securing deals with actor Candace Cameron Bure and correspondent Paula Faris to host the 19th season of the show.

Shepherd, 48, appeared on The View for seven seasons, and won an Emmy for her work in 2009 with her co-hosts on the program.

Shepherd has had no trouble finding work since leaving the show last year, appearing in the critically acclaimed Chris Rock film Take Five, landing a role on the TV Land sitcom The Soul Man, and even making her Broadway musical debut as the Evil Stepmother in Roger And Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

She has also continued to tour the country performing stand-up and in May returned to The View to co-host the show in Goldberg's absence.

Shepherd will be joined by Stacey London and Molly Sims as contributors next season, with a few more individuals likely to be announced by the network in the near future.

Sherri Shepherd confirms The View exit with tears (archive)

Work: Shepherd has appeared on Broadway in Cinderella (above with Keke Palmer and Barbara Walters after her debut in September) and joined the television show The Soul Man since leaving The View

Troubles: Shepherd has also been involved in a custody dispute with estranged husband Lamar Sally over a child the pair had via surrogate (above in September 2013)

In her time off the show Shepherd also became involved in a highly publicized - and unusual - custody battle with her estranged husband Lamar Sally.

Shepherd filed for divorce from Sally, 44, in May 2014 less than three years after they were married, and in July of that year Sally petitioned a court in Los Angeles for full custody of a baby the two were expecting via surrogate.

Shepherd had no biological claim to the child as her egg was not used in the fertilization process and refused to be listed as the child's guardian after he was born, refusing to pay child support or any medical expenses.

A Pennsylvania judge ruled in April of this year however that Shepherd was legally the young boy's mother and as such would be required to contribute to the child's expenses.

'Life is difficult,' Shepherd told Entertainment Tonight after the court ruling.

'So you just hang tough and you keep going. People who know me, my character, my integrity – I feel it speaks for itself.'

Shepherd also has a son Jeffrey from her first marriage to Jeff Tarpley.