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The view co-host Joy Behar missed her third consecutive episode this week.
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The 83-year-old usually has Mondays off, but he also missed Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Whoopi Goldberg provided an update on Behar’s condition.
Joy Behar missed three consecutive episodes of The viewwith moderator Whoopi Goldberg revealing an update on the 83-year-old comedian’s health.
After Behar, who usually has Mondays off at the Hot Topics table, also missed Tuesday and Wednesday’s live shows, Goldberg informed the audience that the star had been injured in an undisclosed incident.
“Joy is out today, I hope she’s back tomorrow,” Goldberg told the audience Tuesday, before the panel — which included herself, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin — questioned Sen. John Fetterman about his decision to side with Republicans in a vote to end the longest government shutdown in American history.
On Wednesday, after the co-hosts sat down at the table, Goldberg brought up Behar’s absence again.
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Joy Behar for “The View”
“Well, hello, hello, hello and welcome to The viewy’all!” the 69-year-old said at the top of Wednesday’s show.
She continued, “Now Joy is out because she hurt her foot, and hopefully she’ll be back here tomorrow.”
Goldberg also shed light on the co-hosts’ status in the studio, telling the audience, “I’m sitting like this because I’m cold as hell. I don’t know why it’s so cold in this room, but every day we beg and plead, ‘Please can we have some heat?’ And they say, “No, make your own!” »
Weekly Entertainment contacted a representative to The view for more information on Behar State.
Even without Behar at the table, The view the co-hosts made headlines this week — particularly for the aforementioned interview with Sen. Fetterman of Pennsylvania.
During the conversation, Hostin directly confronted the politician a day after she sharply criticized him as one of eight Democrats who sided with GOP officials in a vote to end the six-week U.S. government shutdown.
Hostin, a legal expert and former federal prosecutor, told Fetterman that “you had momentum,” given the blue wave of Democratic victories on Election Day, before asking, “Why give in now?” Why bring a butter knife to a gunfight?
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Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg for The View
After invoking the name of conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who opposed the Republican and Democratic handling of the shutdown, she continued: “Are you willing to bet that the Republican Party will negotiate in good faith once the government reopens, because if that bet is wrong, half a million Pennsylvanians that you represent, their health care costs will skyrocket if you are wrong? And I believe you are wrong.”
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Fetterman responded, “Well, first of all, Marjorie Taylor Greene is literally the last person in America I’m going to go to for advice on my leadership and my values. If Democrats celebrate crazy people like that, it’s their fault.”
“I don’t need a lesson,” Fetterman continued. “I don’t need a lesson from Bernie, either [Sanders] or the governor of California, because they represent very deep blue populations and a lot of those things were on the extremes.
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