{"id":341819,"date":"2026-05-28T07:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=341819"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:04:48","slug":"joy-behar-taking-hiatus-from-the-view-who-will-replace-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/joy-behar-taking-hiatus-from-the-view-who-will-replace-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Behar Taking Hiatus From The View, Who Will Replace Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Joy Behar<\/strong><\/span> is briefly stepping away from <span class=\"s1\"><i>The View<\/i><\/span> to work on a passion project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou higher tell people why I\u2019m not [going to be on the show],\u201d Behar, 83, shared on the Tuesday, May 26, episode of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2CmP0Fcp_Lw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Behind the Table<\/span><\/a>\u201d podcast. \u201cI fly to Paris this week, after which I&#8217;m going take the tunnel to London after per week, and I\u2019ll be in London a second week doing my play, <i>My First Ex-Husband<\/i>, on the Boulevard Theatre within the West End. Now we have <strong>Jackie Hoffman<\/strong> and I [playing] the 2 American women talking, then we&#8217;ve two British actresses. Doesn\u2019t that sound like fun?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Due to Behar\u2019s temporary hiatus from ABC\u2019s daytime talk show, <i>The View<\/i>\u2019s executive producer <strong>Brian Teta<\/strong> revealed that some guest cohosts will likely be stepping in to assist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to have some folks filling in for you,\u201d he shared. \u201cWeek one, we\u2019ve already told those that <strong>Sheryl Underwood<\/strong> is coming for 2 days. Next week, we\u2019re going to have [journalist] <strong>Kara Swisher<\/strong>, who could be very funny, very smart. <strong>Ana<\/strong> [<strong>Navarro<\/strong>] will likely be here some days and <strong>Whoopi<\/strong> [<strong>Goldberg<\/strong>] will likely be on the Friday shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Why Whoopi Goldberg Wants Pope Leo to Cohost \u2018The View\u2019 Next<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tIf a seat opens up on the \u201cHot Topics\u201d table on The View, Whoopi Goldberg knows just the person to ask to Latest York City. \u201cI\u2019d wish to have Pope Leo asking people questions,\u201d Goldberg, 70, exclusively shared with Us Weekly on the Disney Upfronts on Tuesday, May 12. \u201cAs an American Pope, it will [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Underwood, 62, who was previously a cohost of <span class=\"s1\"><i>The Talk<\/i><\/span>, made a positive impression on the audience when she briefly filled in for <strong>Alyssa Farah Griffin<\/strong> during her maternity leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Behar joked that she will likely be back very quickly and warned viewers that producers \u201cmade me bank the weekend shows though I\u2019m not here.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4342057\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:55.571428571429%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4342057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=1000&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all\" alt=\"Joy Behar Announces Hiatus From The View Temporary Cohosts Stepping in During Her Absence\" width=\"1000\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=100&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=200&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=300&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=400&#038;quality=70&#038;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=500&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=600&#038;quality=70&#038;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=700&#038;quality=78&#038;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=800&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=900&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=1000&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=1200&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=1400&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=1600&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=1800&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/joy-behar-the-view_e32b4a.jpg?w=1920&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Joy Behar<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of The View\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">America\u2019s most-watched daytime network talk show previously expanded into weekends with a brand new streaming series titled <span class=\"s1\"><i>The Weekend View<\/i><\/span>. The 30-minute show tackles various Hot Topics that weren\u2019t covered in the course of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Before Behar takes a temporary hiatus from <i>The View<\/i>, she&#8217;s going to proceed to voice her opinion on the daytime talk show for the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the course of the Wednesday, May 27, episode, Behar sounded off on <strong>Robert F. Kennedy Jr<\/strong>. <span class=\"s1\">tackling two snakes<\/span> at Dr. <strong>Mehmet Oz<\/strong>\u2019s Florida house. She also weighed in on the controversy as as to if it\u2019s OK to take a position on President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You will have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">At some point earlier, Behar \u2014 who&#8217;s an outspoken critic of Trump, 79 \u2014 made headlines when she <span class=\"s1\">slammed Latest York Giants<\/span> quarterback <strong>Jaxson Dart<\/strong> for attending a political rally with the president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFor any individual to back a man like Trump, whose history of discrimination and racism goes back to housing discrimination within the \u201970s, DEI attacks and posting pictures of the Obamas as apes \u2014 when he\u2019s on a team that\u2019s 55 percent or 60 percent of the NFL, that much percentage of Black people,\u201d Behar shared on Tuesday\u2019s show. \u201cThat&#8217;s just the definition of stupidity and racist for my part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The View<\/i> airs weekdays on ABC. Check your local listings <a href=\"https:\/\/abc.com\/show\/70207ea9-cb32-454b-a519-b40106227e32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">online<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Behar is briefly stepping away from The View to work on a passion project. \u201cYou higher tell people why I\u2019m not [going to be on the show],\u201d Behar, 83, shared on the Tuesday, May 26, episode of the \u201cBehind the Table\u201d podcast. \u201cI fly to Paris this week, after which I&#8217;m going take the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[41059,16219,13210,4496,1681],"class_list":["post-341819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-behar","tag-hiatus","tag-joy","tag-replace","tag-view"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341822,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341819\/revisions\/341822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}