Suzanne Somers is looking back at turning down a co-hosting job on The View.
23.04.2023 - 07:39 / justjared.com
Meghan McCain went in on her time on The View in a revealing new essay.
The 38-year-old acted as a conservative voice on the show for several years before leaving in 2021. She reflected on the show, her experiences with it and more after Rosie O’Donnell spoke negatively about her own time as a host.
In an essay on the Daily Mail, Meghan revealed a topic she wasn’t allowed to discuss on air, conversations she had with other former hosts about the show and what she thought it took to “survive” there.
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“I imagine being a former co-host of ABC News’ The View feels much like having a very public, very nasty breakup with an infamous ex-boyfriend. Everyone knows it ended in complete disaster. And absolutely everyone wants to talk about it,” Meghan opened her essay.
On the topic of Rosie, she added that it was always “validating” when other hosts spoke negatively about The View.
“Now, Rosie O’Donnell and I probably don’t agree on much. But here we’re in sync. There is nothing on God’s green earth that could convince me to ever walk on to that set again,” she said.
Meghan added that they weren’t alone in that thought, but many other hosts choose not to speak publicly.
“Rosie, Jenny McCarthy, and I have chosen to speak out publicly about our stints on the show. But here’s a secret, behind closed doors I’ve never actually heard an ex-host have anything positive to say,” she alleged.
Taking it a step further, she revealed a topic she wanted to broach that was off limits for her: “In 2019, Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam confessed (and then a day, suddenly recanted the admission) to being the white man pictured wearing blackface in a photo published in his
Suzanne Somers is looking back at turning down a co-hosting job on The View.
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Suzanne Somers is revealing she passed on an opportunity to join Barbara Walters when first aired, but she claims two reasons kept her away from the now-iconic daytime talk show.During a conversation with David Yontef on his podcast, the star said she was «originally asked to be on the original with Barbara Walters — and whoever else — and I turned it down.» Walters, the late legendary journalist who created, led the original panel that was also comprised of Joy Behar, Meredith Vieira, Star Jones and Debbie Matenopoulos. premiered on ABC in 1997 and while there have been a number of co-hosts since the original panel premiered, the show has more than endured. It's become one of the preeminent shows by being fervently unafraid to tackle sensitive subjects and enter the political and social discourse. «Everyone said, 'Why would you turn that down? It's a national show,'» Sommers continued on the podcast. «I said, first of all, I'd have to live in New York and I don't want to live in New York.
Suzanne Somers passed on a big opportunity.
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