Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farrah Griffin are all returning to host The View for a new season.
The line-up was confirmed after much speculation that Rosie O’Donnell and Karoline Leavitt were in the running to join the cast.
The lack of changes was revealed when ABC released a new teaser video for the 30th season on Thursday.
In the clip, which begins with a return to the first season with the late Barbara Walters, Haines is heard saying, “30 years. Can you believe it?’
The five other panelists will stop by to celebrate the milestone season before the September 8 air date.
Meanwhile, producers want outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to join the panel show, two sources told the Daily Mail.
Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farrah Griffin all return to host The View for its 30th season
Leavitt is said to be considering the idea, which has received enthusiastic support from President Donald Trump and other White House officials.
The 29-year-old made the shock announcement earlier this month that she would be quitting her job at the end of August to spend more time with her newborn daughter Viviana and son Nicholas, two.
Thursday is Leavitt’s last day as press secretary.
The View wants to host Leavitt shortly after she leaves the White House as a kind of test run, a source said, but producers are serious about adding her to the all-female daytime lineup.
A second source told the Daily Mail that official talks have not yet begun, but ABC representatives have made it very clear to people close to Leavitt that they want her.
Leavitt declined to comment when asked by the Daily Mail.
ABC also did not comment, but a source familiar with the program confirmed that The View has invited Leavitt to appear as a guest.
Discussions about future media positions while still in the White House are delicate.
Legally, government officials cannot negotiate for private sector vacancies while still in office.
The View’s current panel of hosts have personally criticized Leavitt’s performance as press secretary.
Goldberg memorably raged that Leavitt’s comments condemning “wokeness” in the media “really messed me up.”
Behar once argued that Leavitt only got her job because of her appearance.
The line-up was confirmed after much speculation that Rosie O’Donnell and Karoline Leavitt were in the running to join the cast.
In the new teaser, Haines can be heard saying, “30 years. Can you believe it?’ The five other panelists will stop by to celebrate the milestone season before the September 8 air date
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“I think she probably got put in there because according to Donald Trump, she’s a 10,” Behar said.
And after Leavitt said Gen Z and younger Americans were raised with “silver spoons in their mouths,” Hostin fired back, calling the comments “rich” from a woman married to a real estate multimillionaire decades older than her. Leavitt’s husband Nicholas Riccio is 60.
Leavitt wasn’t the only one rumored to be joining the lineup. Rosie O’Donnell announced this month that she will return to the show for the upcoming 30th anniversary special.
O’Donnell, 64, hosted the daytime program twice, first from 2006 to 2007 and then from 2014 to 2015, leaving after one season each time.
“Next year I’m going to go to the 30th anniversary and continue the way they want me to, just as a guest,” she shared on The Tangle podcast.
“They’re bringing back, I think, all the hosts for the thirtieth season,” she said. “And I’m quite proud of that show, of what it’s become and how it really speaks to people and to politics, and that wasn’t the case when I first joined.”
In the podcast interview, O’Donnell confessed that she had “kind of a tense time with Whoopi,” while referring to Goldberg as “someone I admire.”
According to O’Donnell, she “expected us to be like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan, passing the ball back and forth and then shooting and leading the team to victory.” But that’s not exactly what happened.’
Although she will not be joining The View’s host panel, a source confirmed that the show has invited Leavitt to appear as a guest; seen with Trump on August 21
The View’s current panel of hosts have personally criticized Leavitt’s performance as press secretary
Trying to pinpoint the source of her bad blood with Goldberg, O’Donnell mused, “Maybe she felt attacked in some way, and I never tried to infringe.” I just did it the way I knew how to do it and it didn’t go very well.”
Goldberg allegedly attacked O’Donnell when he “made the mistake of throwing at a commercial while she was still talking,” O’Donnell said.
O’Donnell took over Jimmy Kimmel Live! this month as part of a rotating stable of guest hosts as the show’s star enjoys a summer vacation.
Her return to US television comes after she underwent a facelift in January which made headlines for being barely noticeable.
