Rosie O’Donnell Confirms ‘The View’ Season 30 Return, Details Past Issues With Whoopi Goldberg
What To Know
- Rosie O’Donnell has confirmed she will return as a guest for The View‘s 30th season.
- O’Donnell reflected on past tensions with co-host Whoopi Goldberg and issues with the show’s management.
- She is also set to guest host Jimmy Kimmel Live! later this month.
After recently teasing that a return to daytime TV could be “interesting,” Rosie O’Donnell has now confirmed she will be returning to The View for its milestone 30th season.
O’Donnell, who co-hosted for two brief stints in 2006-2007 and 2014-2015, made the announcement on The Tangle podcast. The multi-time Daytime Emmy winner revealed she will appear as a guest on Season 30, which kicks off in late September.
“I will go on the 30th anniversary next [season], and be on in whatever way they want me,” O’Donnell said, noting she will return “just as a guest” rather than a co-host. She also noted that, “They’re bringing back all the hosts, I think, for the 30th season.”
Despite a contentious history with The View, O’Donnell said, “I’m pretty proud of that show, what it’s become and how it really speaks to the people and to politics,” adding that that was “not the case” when she first joined in 2006.
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“Many, many people got the short end of the stick there. It was, you know, it was a factory where people were being churned in and out and their tenuous security, nobody got to be calm,” she explained. “It also was a show at the time that was run by a man. A show created by a woman, for women, about women, and the man was deciding what we should talk about. And that didn’t sit right with me, you know.”
O’Donnell first exited the show in 2007 after a tense on-air clash with former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. She returned in 2014 but again often found herself clashing with her co-hosts, particularly longtime host Whoopi Goldberg.
“I had a sort of tense time with Whoopi,” O’Donnell shared. “I wanted to be on her team. I admire her EGOT status. I have respect for her. And I thought we’d be like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan, passing the ball back and forth, and shooting, and leading the team to victory. But that’s not exactly what happened.”
The A League of Their Own star said she thinks Goldberg might have felt “encroached upon” in some way. “And I was never trying to encroach, I was just doing it the way I knew how to do it, and it didn’t go so well.”
O’Donnell said that she has seen Goldberg since and “we’ve gotten past it… we’re grown ass women and, you know, she’s a woman who supports women, as am I.”
In the meantime, O’Donnell will be guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! later this month, marking her first foray into hosting late night. Kimmel is currently on a two-month summer break from his talk show and has tapped celebs to fill in, including Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, Colman Domingo, and more.
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What is Rosie doing here in America anyway; didn't she leave?
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She’s back with a play off Broadway and hosting Jimmy Kimmel. Be sure to watch!!
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I'd rather watch paint dry
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She's still a citizen and can come back whenever she wants
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Hard PASS.
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No desire to see it
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She should have stayed Gone
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Said who? You don’t count.
Keep scrolling
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She's back, must be broke. Lol
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lol. She left her show after her bank account said she had 100 million dollars. She feels she has enough money forever.
And what does your bank account say???
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Triggered are we?
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I thought she moved to Ireland to get away from America and Trump. And the last I heard she was seeking citizenship in Ireland based on her ancestors coming from Ireland.
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She wasn't getting enough attention with her daily rants about President Trump on social media.
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They should get along splendly this time, they have a shared hate of President Trump. Along with the rest of the harpies on that left wing platform.
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Good. That'll keep trump up at night
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Please no! Go away
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She can lose weight, have a face-lift whatever, BUT nothing will change her hatefulness.
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I think that's great! It's my opinion that Rosie tells it like it is, even if others don't agree. And that's ok, we all have different views and sometimes hearing what others say can change our mind, or at the very least think outside the box. I will start watching it again.
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