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When hot topics meet heated personalities, sparks are bound to fly! Join us as we count down our picks for the most jaw-dropping moments that had viewers and social media buzzing about daytime's most opinionated talk show. From political clashes to celebrity walkouts, these are the times when "The View" became the news itself!
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00:00I listen to you, let me just finish.
00:02Yeah, part of your job is to listen to me.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:06And today, we're counting down our picks
00:08for The View's most scandalous moments since its 1997 premiere.
00:12This shouldn't even be a problem to begin with.
00:16Number 20, Star Jones quits on air.
00:19Something's been on my heart for a little bit.
00:21In the show's ninth season, original panelist Star Jones
00:24shocked her co-stars by announcing her exit from the series.
00:27And I will not be returning as co-host next year.
00:31Behind the scenes, she had been told her contract
00:33would not be renewed for the next season.
00:35Rather than go along with the network's timeline,
00:37Jones broke the news during a live taping
00:39two days before the official announcement was to be made.
00:42Her co-hosts, particularly Joy Behar,
00:44looked totally shocked and confused by the whole thing.
00:47Executive producer and co-host Barbara Walters
00:50was especially unhappy.
00:52Though Jones was supposed to stay with the show for another month,
00:54during the next episode, Walters told the audience
00:57she felt betrayed by the premature announcement
00:59and the controversial episode would be Jones' last.
01:02And therefore, regrettably, Star will no longer be in this program.
01:07Number 19, Meghan's choice word.
01:10Tired of being what she called
01:11the sacrificial Republican on the panel,
01:13Meghan McCain lost her cool with co-host Joy Behar
01:16on this 2019 episode.
01:18You know what, Joy?
01:19I really come here every day open-minded,
01:21just trying to explain it.
01:23In an argument over former President Donald Trump,
01:25unsurprisingly, the two got into one of their characteristic ideological duels.
01:30But when Behar got a little sarcastic with McCain,
01:33the conservative panelist shot back with the word in question.
01:35Don't feel bad for me, b****.
01:37I hate to do this.
01:38Co-host Sonny Hostin was clearly ruffled by it.
01:41He headed to Florida.
01:43Hold on.
01:44But McCain doubled down,
01:45saying that she and Behar trade that word back and forth all the time.
01:49It shocked a lot of viewers, but Behar seemed completely unbothered.
01:53Number 18, Ann Coulter says liberals don't care about black people.
01:57I need you to tell me what you're trying to say in this book.
02:00No stranger to controversy herself,
02:03inflammatory conservative author and frequent Fox News guest Ann Coulter
02:07made waves with her September 2012 appearance on The View.
02:11Promoting her new book on what she calls race-mongering
02:13among liberal politicians,
02:15she made a bold and provoking statement.
02:17I don't think liberals ever cared about black people.
02:20I mean, five minutes after the Civil Rights Act of 64,
02:22they start calling everything that has nothing to do with black people
02:25a civil rights issue.
02:27The two African-American panelists,
02:29Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd,
02:31took particular umbrage with her generalizations.
02:33After getting stuck in a mire of an argument
02:35about politicians who lived more than a century ago,
02:38co-host Whoopi Goldberg's response eventually had to be bleeped.
02:42Number 17, Wedding Cake Discrimination.
02:45I think you are comparing apples to oranges here.
02:48While discussing the right of a business to refuse service based on religious affiliation,
02:53two former sitcom stars got into a heated argument about a wedding cake
02:56and all that it symbolizes.
02:58I refuse to associate myself with you right now.
03:01Co-host Raven Simone and Candace Cameron Bure's discussion
03:04about a bakery that was fine for refusing to provide a cake
03:07for a same-sex wedding made headlines due to how polarizing it was.
03:11Even once co-host Nicole Wallace stepped in to reframe the argument.
03:16This is a very emotional,
03:17I saw what just erupted between the two of you.
03:19People that, I don't want to impose anything on you.
03:21Without speaking,
03:22they still managed to steal the show in a hilarious cutaway.
03:26Number 16, Kate Gosselin breaks her custody agreement.
03:29Kate, I know you wanted to address in the InTouch cover story that just hit newsstands.
03:35During Elizabeth Hasselbeck's 2009 maternity leave,
03:38reality star Kate Gosselin was one of several rotating guest hosts.
03:42But on this episode, she became a hot topic herself.
03:46In the aftermath of the divorce that rocked the reality program John and Kate Plus 8,
03:50Gosselin came under fire from co-star Whoopi Goldberg for breaching her custody agreement.
03:55I understand that, but when you go into a custody thing with someone,
04:01you have your specific time and their specific time.
04:04Gosselin gave a contradictory and naive story
04:06about the night she interrupted her ex-husband's court-allotted night with their children.
04:11But Whoopi wasn't having it.
04:12She brought the hammer down on Gosselin,
04:14sounding more like Judge Judy than a co-host of The View.
04:17You could have gone to jail.
04:19Number 15, Elizabeth Hasselbeck makes light of stalking.
04:22Really, I've said there's one aspect that I was focused on last night for some reason.
04:26Erin Andrews, who was the ESPN reporter.
04:28Elizabeth Hasselbeck landed herself in hot water during a 2010 taping of The View.
04:33Sportscaster Erin Andrews had been stalked and filmed without her permission months prior.
04:38In response, Hasselbeck joked that the stalker could have waited a few months
04:42to watch her on Dancing with the Stars if he wanted to see more of her body.
04:46I mean, in some way, if I'm him, I'm like, man, I just could have waited 12 weeks.
04:50The insinuation that Andrews' choice to wear revealing costumes on TV
04:54was equivalent to being spied on by a stalker
04:57did not go down well with the co-hosts, the audience, or Andrews herself.
05:01After invoking a firestorm of controversy,
05:03Hasselbeck offered a weepy on-air apology the next day.
05:06I'm really sorry, and I wanted to offer that publicly, too.
05:09Number 14, debating the N-word.
05:12A report that Jesse Jackson had used the N-word in a hot mic moment
05:16touched off yet another intense debate among The View's co-hosts.
05:20He wasn't talking about using the word privately.
05:22He was talking about using it publicly.
05:24Elizabeth Hasselbeck's contention that the word should never be used by members of any race
05:28did not sit well with Sherry Shepard and Whoopi Goldberg.
05:31It's not a word that should be used.
05:33I think it's...
05:34Don't tell me I can't use that word.
05:36Whoopi's patience in the moment is kind of miraculous,
05:39given how she's tried to be as respectful as she can in explaining herself.
05:43But Elizabeth, as I said at the beginning, when we first talked about this word,
05:47this is a word that has meaning when you give it meaning.
05:50Despite her claim that she wanted to understand their point of view,
05:54Hasselbeck seemed determined not to listen,
05:56ending the conversation on the verge of tears once again.
06:00Number 13, Raven Simonet's hiring practices.
06:05The Hot Topic segment on this October 2015 episode
06:08included a study on how people make racist assumptions based on people's names.
06:12Just to bring it back, can we take back racist and say discriminatory?
06:15Because I think that's a better word.
06:17Yes, it is a much better word.
06:17That's a better word.
06:18And I am very discriminatory against words like the ones that they were saying in those names.
06:23For the hosts, this study brought to mind a viral video.
06:26Raven Simonet could barely keep it together.
06:29Through laughter, she announced to everyone watching
06:31that she would not hire someone with a name like, for instance, Watermelon Drea.
06:36I'm not going to hire you.
06:37The silence was deafening, but the controversy that ensued was not.
06:41On a later episode, frequent guest Ann Coulter even threw at her two cents.
06:46You know you messed up when Ann Coulter can roast you and the view audience stays quiet.
06:51Well, I'm at least talking about policy.
06:54You have a position on what people's names should be.
06:57Number 12, Raven Simonet defends racist comments.
07:01In 2015, Venezuelan TV show host Rodner Figueroa was fired from his network
07:06after joking that Michelle Obama looked like a character from Planet of the Apes.
07:10You know, Michelle Obama looks like she's part of the cast of Planet of the Apes, the film.
07:15It was an incredibly racist comment that generated a ton of ire from the public.
07:19But the controversy didn't stop there.
07:21The View's Rosie Perez declared on the show that the Latin community is racist.
07:25There is a secret in the Latin community, specifically the Caribbean, South American,
07:31thank you, Central American, Latin community, that they are very racist.
07:35They never want to be in the same group as black people.
07:40Guest star Raven Simonet pounced on this discussion by then saying,
07:44some people naturally look like animals.
07:46This whole debacle was deeply steeped in racism that made no one look good.
07:50Some people look like animals.
07:52Is that rude?
07:52Girl, half my family does.
07:54Am I right, America?
07:55I look like a bird.
07:56Half my family.
07:57So can I be mad if somebody calls me Toucan Sam?
08:00Like, don't be mad.
08:01Yeah, I'd be mad if somebody called you Toucan Sam.
08:03Number 11, hashtag Nurses Unite.
08:06We apologize for our remarks, and we know how vitally important nurses are.
08:10If you don't want to cause a stir, maybe don't insult an entire occupation.
08:14The story begins at a Miss America competition.
08:17Miss Colorado, Kelly Johnson, a nurse specializing in Alzheimer's disease,
08:21appeared on stage in her uniform and performed a heartbreaking monologue about one of her patients
08:25and the meaning of her job.
08:27I am a lifesaver.
08:28I'm never going to be just a nurse.
08:30While discussing the monologue on The View,
08:32Michelle Collins said that Kelly had basically just read her emails on stage,
08:36while Joy Behar asked why Kelly had a doctor's stethoscope around her neck.
08:41Why does she have a doctor's stethoscope around her?
08:42What is it about?
08:43The outrage was immediate, with nurses creating hashtag Nurses Unite on social media
08:48and speaking about the importance of their jobs.
08:50Sometimes we don't feel like we're the most respected.
08:53You know, one thing, I have to say, one thing that became abundantly clear to me this week
08:57was that nurses wear stethoscopes.
08:59Number 10, Elizabeth Hasselbeck's backstage tirade.
09:02I'm saying this, I wish that it were available.
09:05I'm not saying, I don't believe it's the right thing,
09:06but this is a slippery slope to just eliminating life.
09:09Proceeding the release of Ladies Who Punch remains to Tuta's non-fiction book about The View,
09:14audio leaked of an expletive-laden tirade from former co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
09:19After a heated debate about the morning-after pill in 2006,
09:22Hasselbeck was so outraged by Barbara Walters' comments that she stormed off set.
09:26I mean, I heard everything you said. I just am emphatic with...
09:29I barely started.
09:30And it's not just my opinion.
09:31The audio of the backstage meltdown surfaced over a decade later.
09:35She loses her cool after being reprimanded by Walters
09:38and insists she's not returning to the show,
09:40before ultimately returning to the show.
09:42You know what? I can take it in the meeting room.
09:44I'm not taking it out there on air.
09:46Okay, honey.
09:47I'm not taking it.
09:47I hear what you're saying.
09:49Because I have to say...
09:50Hasselbeck's assertion that she doesn't swear is made ironically funny,
09:53given how many times she dropped the F-bomb in a two-minute period.
09:57When the audio leaked,
09:58Hasselbeck released an apology,
10:00explaining that she was pregnant at the time.
10:02Number 9, Whoopi Goldberg's Holocaust Comments.
10:05In a 2022 episode,
10:07the panelists were talking about the banning of books in schools,
10:10particularly books that deal with racism,
10:12the Holocaust,
10:13and supposed adult themes.
10:15Kids are exposed to this stuff really early
10:17in inappropriate situations,
10:19not ones where you're learning or teaching.
10:22Mid-discussion,
10:23Whoopi Goldberg stated that the Holocaust was not about race.
10:26It's not about race.
10:27What is it about?
10:27Because it's about man's inhumanity to man.
10:32Aside from the inaccuracy of the comment,
10:34it seemed to have come out of nowhere.
10:36Though Goldberg tried to clarify her statements,
10:38she issued a live apology the next day.
10:40I regret my comments as I said and I stand corrected.
10:44The moment made national headlines,
10:46and Goldberg received a tide of criticism from all corners.
10:49She was personally suspended by ABC News president Kim Godwin,
10:53and was relieved of her hosting duties for two weeks.
10:56Number 8, Whoopi Goldberg defends Mel Gibson.
10:59In 2010, Gibson was caught in a vicious feud with his partner,
11:03Oksana Grigorueva.
11:05In one particularly hateful voicemail,
11:08Gibson spouted something so horrific,
11:10we can't repeat it here.
11:11He also allegedly referred to one of his employees
11:13as a slur against Mexican people.
11:16While the outrage was immediate,
11:17Whoopi Goldberg defended Gibson on The View,
11:20saying that she personally knows him
11:21and that he is not a racist.
11:22You can say he's being a bonehead,
11:27but I can't sit and say that he's a racist,
11:31having spent time with him in my house with my kids.
11:33This in turn led to more outrage,
11:35as people decried Whoopi for defending Gibson
11:38after he said such awful and clearly racist things.
11:41Joy Behar put it best when she said,
11:43that language certainly sounds racist to me.
11:46But I know Mel, and I know he's not a racist.
11:48Oh really?
11:49Yeah, I do.
11:49He may be a bonehead.
11:53Well, that language certainly sounds racist to me.
11:55Number 7.
11:57Raven Simonet defends an abusive cop's actions.
12:00Raven Simonet is at it again,
12:02this time defending an abusive cop.
12:04In 2015, a video surfaced of a police officer
12:07violently taking down a student
12:09after she refused to get off her phone in class.
12:12Many people called the reaction unnecessary and excessive,
12:15and the officer was promptly fired.
12:1620 minutes ago,
12:17school resource officer Ben Fields
12:20was terminated from the Richland County Sheriff's Department.
12:23Raven Simonet chimed in during the after show,
12:25titled After the View,
12:27and said that the student should have just followed the rules
12:29and put her phone away.
12:30And while she did condemn the officer's actions,
12:33many saw it as an example of victim blaming.
12:35The girl was told multiple times
12:37People were outraged,
12:40and a Change.org petition was created
12:42calling for Raven Simonet to be fired.
12:45It received 130,000 signatures in five days.
12:49Number 6.
12:50Whoopi Goldberg spat with Janine Pirro
12:52Republican TV personality Janine Pirro,
12:55host of Fox News,
12:57Justice with Janine,
12:58appeared on The View for just a few minutes
13:00before her segment was cut
13:01when she upset Whoopi Goldberg.
13:03During her appearance,
13:05Pirro covered a host of topics,
13:07defending the Russia-United States-Helsinki summit,
13:09blaming Obama for everything,
13:11and telling Whoopi that she had a nonsense illness
13:13called Trump Derangement Syndrome.
13:15Did you just point at me?
13:16Yes!
13:17Listen, I don't have Trump Derangement.
13:19Let me tell you what I have.
13:20Okay.
13:21I have a lot of...
13:22After Pirro began saying horrible things about immigration,
13:25Whoopi swiftly said goodbye, literally,
13:27and the other hosts brought the interview to a close.
13:29You don't always have to respect everyone's opinions.
13:32United States whips up people
13:34to beat the hell out of people.
13:35No!
13:36Say goodbye!
13:36Let me buy!
13:37I'm done!
13:38Number 5.
13:40Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar
13:41walk out on Bill O'Reilly.
13:43The mosque down here on 9-11.
13:45That's inappropriate.
13:46This was another instance
13:48where Whoopi Goldberg's difference of opinion
13:50with a Fox News star caused a stir.
13:52While visiting The View in October 2010,
13:54Bill O'Reilly made a few enemies
13:56with his controversial political comments.
13:58There's the president going,
13:59well, they were right to do it.
14:00And then the guy says...
14:01Yes, this is America.
14:02And then the guy...
14:02This is America.
14:03Hold it, hold it.
14:04Listen to me, because you'll learn.
14:06All right?
14:11The topic was Park 51,
14:13a proposed Islamic community center
14:14that was to be built
14:16just down the street from ground zero.
14:18Bill told the cast
14:19that 70% of Americans
14:20don't want the mosque
14:22without citing a source.
14:23However, it's actually from
14:24a CNN Opinion Research Corporation poll.
14:2770% of Americans
14:28don't want that mosque down there.
14:30So don't give me the weebid.
14:31We're temple.
14:33I want to see that.
14:33You want to bet on that?
14:35Bill went on
14:35with derogatory comments
14:37prompting Whoopi to curse at Bill
14:38before walking off stage
14:39with joy in disgust.
14:41They eventually returned
14:42and Bill clarified his comment,
14:44but the damage
14:44had already been done.
14:46I don't want to sit here.
14:48I don't want to sit here.
14:49Go.
14:49Go.
14:49I don't want to sit here.
14:51That's it.
14:52You're outraged about your mosque.
14:53Number 4.
14:54Rosie vs. Elizabeth
14:56Did Iraq attack us, Elizabeth?
14:58Iraq?
14:58Did not attack us, Rosie.
15:00We've been there before.
15:01I'm saying our enemy's Al-Qaeda.
15:03Are you hearing that?
15:04This one is a nice mix
15:05of controversy
15:06and painful awkwardness.
15:08The episode that aired
15:09on May 23rd, 2007
15:11is probably one of the most famous episodes
15:13in The View's history,
15:15prompted by the long-standing rivalry
15:16between Rosie O'Donnell
15:18and Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
15:19Do you believe I think
15:20our troops are terrorists, Elizabeth?
15:22Yes or no?
15:23I don't think they...
15:24Do you believe they?
15:24Yes or no?
15:25Excuse me.
15:26Let me speak.
15:27The topic was the Iraq War
15:28and liberal Rosie
15:29and conservative Elizabeth
15:31were quickly at each other's throats.
15:33It swiftly erupted
15:34into a massive fight
15:35that resulted in Joy and Sherry
15:37pretending to walk off stage
15:38and asking for a commercial break
15:40to diffuse the tension.
15:42Executive producer Bill Getty
15:43later admitted
15:44it was a horrible day
15:45to be in The View's studio.
15:47We can only imagine.
15:48I'll tell you what's cowardly.
15:50Me.
15:51What?
15:51No.
15:52Look at me on PBS.
15:53No.
15:54Asking a rhetorical question
15:56that you never answer yourself.
15:58That is cowardly.
15:59Who is directing the show?
16:00Let's go to commercial.
16:02Let's go to commercial.
16:03I'm going to drink water.
16:04Let's go to commercial.
16:05Number three.
16:06Barbara Walters
16:07defends Woody Allen.
16:09While Woody Allen's art
16:10has been acclaimed,
16:11his personal life
16:12has long been the subject
16:13of scrutiny.
16:14Director Woody Allen
16:15caught in a relationship
16:16with the 21-year-old
16:17adopted daughter
16:18of his longtime partner,
16:20Mia Farrow.
16:20His relationship
16:21with Soon-Yi Previn
16:23is well documented
16:24and in 2014,
16:25his adopted daughter,
16:27Dylan Farrow,
16:27wrote an open letter
16:28accusing her father
16:30of sexually assaulting her
16:31when she was seven years old.
16:32He's lying and...
16:35He's been lying for so long.
16:38And it is difficult for me
16:40to see him
16:41and to hear his voice.
16:44I'm sorry.
16:45Barbara Walters
16:46came to Allen's defense
16:47on The View,
16:48calling him a loving
16:49and caring parent
16:51despite the sexual assault allegations.
16:53Walters and co-host
16:54Sherry Shepard
16:55proceed to argue
16:56about Allen and his past
16:58and the media
16:59quickly made scathing headlines
17:00of Barbara's defense.
17:01I have really seen
17:03the father as sensitive
17:04and as loving
17:05and as caring
17:06as Woody is
17:08and Soon-Yi
17:09to these two girls.
17:10I don't know about Dylan.
17:12I can only tell you
17:13what I have seen now
17:14that it's a good marriage
17:16and that he is
17:16a loving, caring father.
17:19Number two,
17:20Kelly Osbourne's
17:21cleaning toilets comment.
17:23In August 2015,
17:24cast members on The View
17:25were discussing
17:26Donald Trump's racism
17:27and his controversial
17:28views on immigration.
17:29There are a lot of Latinos
17:31here in this country
17:32that do agree
17:33that the immigration problem
17:35is a problem
17:36and it does need
17:37to be addressed
17:38and it does need
17:39to be fixed.
17:40Interesting.
17:40But making
17:41those comments,
17:43those racist comments
17:44do not help.
17:45Trying to attack Trump
17:46and his political beliefs,
17:47Kelly Osbourne said,
17:48If you kick
17:49every Latino
17:50out of this country,
17:52then who is going
17:52to be cleaning
17:53your toilet,
17:53Donald Trump?
17:54It was a ridiculously
17:55offensive thing to say
17:56and was quickly met
17:57with shocked gasps
17:58and rebuttals
17:59by her co-hosts.
18:00There's more jobs
18:01to be in.
18:01In L.A.,
18:02they always...
18:03But Latinos
18:04are not only the only people
18:06doing that.
18:06No, I didn't mean it like that.
18:06Come on.
18:07No, I would never
18:08mean it like that.
18:09While Kelly said
18:10that she didn't mean
18:11it like that,
18:12people were deeply offended
18:13and Kelly was forced
18:14to issue an apology,
18:15singling out
18:15her poor choice of words.
18:17Yeah,
18:17you can say that again.
18:19I'm okay
18:19with people calling me
18:20whatever they want
18:21to call me.
18:22However,
18:23I'm not okay
18:24that I hurt
18:25people's feelings
18:25and it was
18:27my poor choice of words
18:28and it doesn't reflect
18:29my opinion at all
18:30and I do not want
18:31to be brought into
18:32this political nightmare.
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18:51Number one,
18:52Whoopi Goldberg
18:53defends Bill Cosby.
18:54Here we have
18:55another instance
18:56of a host
18:57defending a controversial celebrity.
18:58He has not been arrested
18:59and the bottom line is
19:02that's the law.
19:03Innocent until proven guilty.
19:05In the mid-2010s,
19:06Cosby's reputation
19:07was permanently tarnished
19:09after he became the subject
19:10of numerous
19:11sexual assault allegations.
19:12Whoopi Goldberg
19:13was quick to defend Cosby
19:14on numerous occasions,
19:16vehemently declaring
19:17that he was innocent
19:18until proven guilty.
19:19And the American courts
19:20agree with me
19:21because still,
19:23he has not been taken to jail
19:24or tried
19:25or on anything.
19:27So back off me.
19:28She then became the subject
19:29of numerous personal threats
19:31and late-night TV ridicule.
19:33To her credit,
19:34she later switched her stance
19:35and said that the evidence
19:36pointed towards his guilt.
19:38If this is to be tried
19:40in the court of public opinion,
19:42I gotta say,
19:42all of the information
19:44that's out there
19:45kinda points to guilt.
19:48Which of these moments
19:49made you want to
19:49dramatically walk off stage?
19:51Let us know
19:51in the comments.
20:04Until then,
20:05we will see you all
20:06as far as possible.
20:08To me,
20:21you are Frist yesterday from
20:21theр Mape,
20:22I've got time for
20:23the first providence
20:24that's in the end of the
20:25行 quiets there,
20:26which would now
20:27make you part of Guard?
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