Citing her “spies,” Behar told The Daily Beast in a recent interview that The View will be “going for fireworks rather than camaraderie” when it returns for its new season in September.
“We had chemistry that everybody seemed to like for a good 10 years,” Behar, who left the show last summer, said in the interview. “And when Star [Jones] and Meredith [Vieira] left, they changed the show to be a little more political, with Rosie [O’Donnell] and Elisabeth [Hasselbeck]… By the time I left last summer it became goody-goody again. Fluffy. Now they’re going back to confrontation. That’s what it looks like to me.”
It was reported late June both Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy would not be returning as panelists for the next season, leaving Whoopi Goldberg as the sole remaining host. ABC released a statement thereafter announcing that the show would be “moving in an exciting new direction.” That direction includes the return of O’Donnell, who infamously left the show following a particularly heated on-air argument with then co-host Hasselbeck.
There has been media speculation that S.E. Cupp, a conservative commentator on CNN, or Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) may be selected to fill one of the seats.
The Daily Beast reports that the show’s creator Barbara Walters and longtime Executive Producer Bill Geddie have “lost control” of the program and that Geddie will not be returning for the new season.
