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Why Was Joy Behar Absent from The View for 3 Days Straight? Co-Host Whoopi Goldberg Reveals Reason
NEED TO KNOW
- Joy Behar was absent from The View on Tuesday, Nov. 11 and Wednesday, Nov. 12
- Whoopi Goldberg revealed her reasoning during Wednesday’s episode
- The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC
Joy Behar has been absent from The View for two consecutive expected episodes and her co-hosts are explaining why.
On Wednesday, Nov. 12, panelist Whoopi Goldberg revealed at the top of the talk show why Behar, 83, was unable to attend the taping on Wednesday, as well as her previous expected appearance on Tuesday. Behar also did not sit in on the panel on Monday, which is a week day she’s usually off.
“Well, hello, hello, hello, and welcome to The View, y’all,” Goldberg kicked off the taping on Wednesday, per Entertainment Weekly. She added, “Now, Joy is out because she hurt her foot, and hopefully she’ll be back here tomorrow.”
The day before, Goldberg, 69, told viewers that Behar was “out” and would “hopefully” be back the following day. Wednesday’s panel ultimately featured Goldberg, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
PEOPLE has reached out to a representative of The View for comment.
Elsewhere during the show’s latest episode, the panel remembered Cleto Escobedo III, Jimmy Kimmel’s longtime friend and Jimmy Kimmel Live! bandleader who died at age 59. Goldberg called him “quite a guy” who will “absolutely be missed.”
Behar, meanwhile, has been a fixture on The View since its very first episode in 1997, with the exception of a period between 2013 and 2015.
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Back in January, she revealed that her agent initially advised her not to take the job. “When I got this job — when was it? 1997? — I was sort of on the cusp of getting a sitcom. I had been in a sitcom already, and I’d done a pilot,” Behar, who was a regular on NBC’s TV adaptation of the 1987 film Baby Boom in the late ’80s, told executive producer Brian Teta on The View‘s official Behind the Table podcast.
“The call comes for this job to do The View with Barbara Walters. Do you know that my agent told me not to take it,” she added. The agent, Behar said, argued at the time that the show didn’t pay enough, although she “knew that it would be a smart show” with Barbara Walters behind it.
The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.
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