Alyssa Farah Griffin Reveals 'The View' Co-Hosts She Was Afraid Of, Elisabeth Hasselbeck's Advice (Exclusive)

“glad to be fired.”A longtime veteran, the outspoken liberal panelist and comedian is reportedly making $7 million a year from the ABC daytime talk show. Behar, a Brooklyn native, remains the only original panelist on the show who regularly co-hosts, despite the brief break she took from 2013 to 2015. Meanwhile, the 79-year-old author has written multiple books, which have earned her millions more.

Sheri Shepherd is looking to the legends of daytime TV for inspiration. Fresh off her move to New York City for the show's launch, Shepherd said she's hoping to incorporate Ellen Degeneres-style humor with Oprah-esque interviews when premiers on September 12 on Fox. «A little bit of Ellen,» Shepherd told ET's Rachel Smith. «A little bit of inspiration of Oprah, a lot of the laughter of Ellen and put that together, and then you got Sherri and I am like, let’s go!» In advance of her show's first season, Shepherd named Lizzo, Michelle Obama, and Michael B.

Will Packer is rooting for Will Smith.At the New York City premiere of, ET's Rachel Smith spoke with the producer, who headed up the the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony. He revealed what he thought of the 53-year-old actor's recent public apology for charging the Oscars stage and slapping Chris Rock across the face.«I love the fact that he's being so transparent about his process,» Packer said of Smith. «Clearly he is going through his own personal rehabilitation.»Showing support for the star, Packer noted, «I’m pulling for him. I’m pulling for him to continue his own process, but I think this is for him.

Jennette McCurdy's relationship with her  co-star, Ariana Grande, may be strained, she's still hoping the 29-year-old musician reads her memoir, . «I don’t know if she'll read the book or not,» McCurdy told ET's Rachel Smith, «but I think it’s a really entertaining read regardless of who you are, so I hope she does.»In the memoir, out Tuesday, McCurdy recalled feeling jealous of Grande as she missed work in pursuit of her burgeoning singing career.«The week where I was told Ariana would not be here at all, and that they would write around her absence this episode by having her character be locked in a box. Are you. Kidding me,» McCurdy wrote in her memoir.

Garth Brooks is celebrating the end of his three-year world tour with champagne and festivities!ET's Rachel Smith was exclusively with Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, at the epic afterparty following his final stop on the North American leg of his Garth Brooks Stadium Tour!Amid the revelry, Brooks spoke with Smith about the tour wrapping up and said that he truly doubts he'll be headlining a tour of this magnitude in the foreseeable future.«I don’t think we'll ever do a stadium tour again, ever. It’s just too much on the crew,» Brooks shared. «These guys haven’t been home in six months.»However, Brooks celebrated the fact that his road crew is «finally gonna get to go home and see their families.»That being said, Brooks admitted that retirement from live performing isn't in the cards, and when it comes to tours, «It’s never the last one.»Yearwood, meanwhile, shared that the champagne wrap party celebration was somewhat «bittersweet» by nature, «Because you enjoy every second along the way.»«The last show is always the special one.

In case any TV fans missed Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Rosie O’Donnell’s explosive on-air fight more than a decade ago, the two former View cohosts are dredging up their old drama now.

recent return to the show got a big thumbs down from O’Donnell, which of course it did given their contentious onscreen relationship back 2006 and 2007.“Okay, so I prepared myself. I got ready to watch Elisabeth Hasselbeck on ‘The View,'” O’Donnell said in a TikTok video posted Thursday.

Rosie O’Donnell is offering her review of Elisabeth Hasselbeck‘s return to “The View” as a guest co-host, and it wasn’t pretty.

Even though Meghan McCain has been off The View for months, Joy Behar just can’t help but keep their epic feud going!

Rosie O'Donnell is offering her review of Elisabeth Hasselbeck's return to as a guest co-host, and it wasn't pretty.O'Donnell, 60, posted a TikTok video on Thursday and explained that she was prepared to sit and watch her former (current?) nemesis/ex-crush return to the daytime talk show but, to her surprise, actually missed it. Hasselbeck's episode aired Wednesday, but O'Donnell managed to find the episode and offered some thoughts.«And I watched it, from yesterday,» O'Donnell said. «And I remembered why I don't want to watch it with her anymore.

The start of the end. Meghan McCain revealed the moment when she realized she was ready to leave The View — and Joy Behar played a big role in the decision.

“The Commentary Magazine Podcast” that it was something Behar told her on-air right after she returned from maternity leave in January of that year that made her realize she needed to leave the ABC talk show for good.“I finally went back to the show, and the day I went back to the show, Joy Behar said on air, ‘Nobody missed you, we didn’t miss you, you shouldn’t have come back,’” McCain said. “I started hysterically crying. Sorry gentlemen, I know, I started lactating on air, and crying, hysterical.”McCain explained that after the on-air moment, she went back to her dressing room and called her brother, who helped her decide that the show wasn’t right for her anymore.“I didn’t feel supported when I had my baby, and I didn’t feel supported coming back, and that was ultimately it,” she added.

Meghan McCain said Joy Behar was the reason she walked away from “The View”.

Gallery: The ‘little shy girl’ who became a tennis sensation! What do you know about Emma Raducanu? (BANG Showbiz)Meanwhile, Republican party member and former White House member Alyssa Farah has recently joined the panel, and Joy predicted that she is "going to do very well" and advised that being on the show is like being on a "volleyball "team. Joy told ETOnline: ""Alyssa has got a whole different personality.

Joy Behar has been on for nearly its entire quarter-century run, and the celebrated TV personality is opening up about the reason she's stayed with the program for as long as she has.The 79-year-old veteran TV personality sat down with ET's Rachel Smith to talk about the show's new co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and she joked about what keeps her coming back to the show each season.«Money,» Behar says with a laugh. «And also geography.

Joy Behar is welcoming a new conservative voice to with open arms! On Thursday, ABC announced that Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House director of strategic communications during President Donald Trump's administration, will be joining the show as a permanent co-host — to the delight of Behar. The 79-year-old veteran TV personality shares with ET's Rachel Smith why she thinks Farah Griffin's time on will run a little «smoother» than that of Meghan McCain, who was a conservative voice on the show when she co-hosted for four seasons, leaving last year.«Alyssa has got a whole different personality. I think it will be smoother, frankly,» Behar admits to ET.

“The View” is adding two new faces to its panel — faces that will be familiar to the show’s viewers.

The View will announce not one, but TWO new co-hosts, one year after the departure of Meghan McCain.

Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin will be named permanent co-hosts of The View, with an announcement expected on the show on Thursday.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior Correspondent“The View” is adding two new co-hosts: former Trump staffer, Alyssa Farah Griffin, as well as longtime contributor to the show, Ana Navarro, who Variety has learned has signed a multi-year deal as a permanent co-host, though she won’t appear every day on the show.The announcement is expected to come on today’s episode of “The View.”Both women are Republicans and will add conservative commentary to the daytime talk show, though their political brands are vastly different, despite their same party affiliation.Navarro and Farah Griffin will join moderator Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines, resulting in six co-hosts for Season 26.Navarro — a fan-favorite on “The View” who identifies as a Republican, but is a staunch critic of former President Donald Trump —  has appeared as a weekly guest host on the show, but never officially had a permanent spot at the Hot Topics table until now. Over the years, Variety has reported that she had been in discussions to join “The View,” but a full-time deal never materialized.

expected to go to Alyssa Farah Griffin). Navarro has often filled in when Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines or Sunny Hostin is out.

Joy Behar is looking back at suffering at ectopic pregnancy.

Tiffany Cross and comedian Wanda Sykes — have already slammed the network for reportedly hiring Griffin.Who will be the next co-host of @TheView? The wait is finally over! Find out only on @TheView this THURSDAY at 11e|10c|p on ABC! pic.twitter.com/xvLHqgin2ZBorn in Los Angeles on June 15, 1989, Griffin is the daughter of two journalists. Her father, Joseph Farah, was the executive news editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, then an editor at Northern California’s the Sacramento Union.Her father is of Syrian and Lebanese descent.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentSunny Hostin is staying put at the most dramatic table on television.Hostin has inked a multiyear, multimillion-dollar deal to continue as co-host on “The View,” Variety has exclusively learned. The renewal deal will take Hostin through Season 28 of the ABC daytime show, which she currently co-hosts with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sara Haines — all of whom will be returning next season.ABC declined to comment on Hostin’s deal.As Variety previously reported, “The View” is expected to cast former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin as a co-host next season, which begins in September, filling the conservative seat on the panel that has been vacant ever since Meghan McCain left the show in 2021.

Joy Behar is opening up about a near-death experience. On Wednesday's episode of , during a discussion about abortion rights ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, Behar revealed she had an ectopic pregnancy more than four decades ago. «In 1979, I had an ectopic pregnancy… I almost died,» Behar, 79, said, before explaining what an ectopic pregnancy is.«The [embryo] is growing in the fallopian tube.

#TheView … Lord, I'm sick of Elizabeth all ready. You can't force your beliefs on others. And those options she speaks of don't address all circumstances or all individuals.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned to “The View” on Wednesday, Aug. 3 as the daytime talk show marks its 25th season on the air.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned to “The View” on Wednesday and spent most of the first half of the show shaming abortion rights activists and women who get abortions. According to Hasselbeck, these people are “getting caught in the law” too much, rather than adhering to religious guidelines.The discussion on abortion rights resurfaced after voters in Kansas overwhelmingly rejected the idea of removing a woman’s right to an abortion from the state constitution on Wednesday night, after the reversal of Roe v.

“pray for me” as she steps back into the embattled liberal lion’s den. Hasselbeck was “The View’s” OG conservative co-host during her 10-year tenure on the program, clashing with her co-stars and transforming the daytime show into a pop culture juggernaut. And while her return is currently being billed as “temporary,” fans are already calling for the Nashville-based blonde to be permanently reinstalled in the conservative seat that she singlehandedly created. It’s no secret that “The View” producers have been struggling to find the right Republican to fill said seat after it was vacated by self-proclaimed “mountain mama” Meghan McCain last year. Ratings have been sagging without a right-leaning co-host, compounded by embarrassing missteps from Goldberg and Behar — and Hasselbeck could help bring back eyeballs.‘Hasselbeck walked so Candace Cameron Buré could run so Alyssa Farrah Griffin could fly.’ABC will officially name the new conservative co-host on Thursday, one day after Hasselbeck’s return — and her team is only fueling rumors that she could be a contender. “This is the same woman who threw herself into the middle of the Australian Outback [on “Survivor”], survived 10 years at “The View,” and then joined the Fox News Team,” Hasselbeck’s rep told The Post. “I would say nothing is off the table when it comes to her taking on new adventures.”Meanwhile, an ABC spokesperson refused to be drawn on whether execs are looking to bring back the blonde on a full-time basis.

Joe Biden announced a successful counterterrorism operation on Monday night, revealing that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in an unmanned drone strike at a safe house in Kabul. And on Tuesday morning, the hosts of “The View” argued that the operation definitely helps Biden’s image in the strength department.“We make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out,” Biden said during his remarks from the White House. And those were strong — but welcome — words for the women of “The View.”“Oh, he’s like Liam Neeson, right?” Joy Behar joked.

Joy Behar is pretty concerned about the issues conservatives are choosing to run on in this election cycle. On Monday’s episode of “The View,” she argued that their focus on LGBTQ+ rights and abortion rights will turn the country into a hostile nation if they succeed.Of course, Behar also argued that conservatives might be overplaying their hand. “They always say that the Democrats shoot themselves in the foot, but now it looks like the Republicans are doing that to themselves,” she argued.

WWE superstars Bianca Belair and Montez Ford have a cute-meet story, though it almost never happened because Ford was a little hesitant to get the ball rolling!The loving couple invited ET's Rachel Smith to their Orlando home where they spoke about their adorable love story (#goals), the possibility of expanding their family and how they want to celebrate their next wedding anniversary. Ford's the first one to admit that it was Belair who took initiative, even if there was mutual interest.«It was a mutual thing, but I was the one that was kinda, like, a little hesitant and she, you know, like always, took the lead,» Ford says.Belair still remembers the first words that came out of her mouth when she laid eyes on his Adonis-esque 6-foot-1, 230-pound frame.«The first time I saw him,» Belair recalls, «I was telling my friends, 'Ooh, that is a beautiful man.

Will Smith issued a new video on Friday, apologizing directly to Chris Rock for slapping him on stage at the Oscars. But for the hosts of “The View,” it wasn’t really enough.

She’s back, y’all!!

Whoopi Goldberg is apologizing to a group she criticized.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is making her return to the hot seat. The longtime former “View” co-host will be back at the table in August.