‘The View’ Turns 25: How 10 Former Hosts Returned to TV
The ABC chat-fest The View has been on for 25 years now… and has had nearly as many hosts over those two decades!
Yes, The View — which officially turns 25 on August 11 — has had a ton of panel turnover over the years. (And, as we’ve previously covered, some departures were more amicable than others.)
But many of the former co-hosts have continued to find work on television with The View in their rearview mirror, so to speak. Here’s how 10 View alums returned to the small screen.
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Meredith Vieira
Star Jones
Barbara Walters
After her departure from The View, Walters hosted one-off 20/20 episodes and the Investigation Discovery series American Scandals.
Lisa Ling
From 2003 to 2010, Ling hosted the documentary TV series National Geographic Explorer, staying with the show as it moved from MSNBC to National Geographic Channel.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
After her tenure on The View, Hasselbeck began co-hosting Fox News’ Fox & Friends and stayed with the morning show for more than two years.
Rosie O’Donnell
O’Donnell’s second run on The View ended in 2015, after which she returned to acting with roles in the TV shows Empire, The Fosters, and Mom.
Sherri Shepherd
Shepherd returned to TV has a celebrity contestant on the syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game and as the host of the Cooking Channel docuseries Holy & Hungry.
Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné left The View to develop a spinoff to her 2000s Disney Channel show That’s So Raven. That spinoff, Raven’s Home, debuted in 2017.
Candace Cameron Bure
Bure continued her role as D.J. Tanner-Fuller in the Netflix sitcom Fuller House after her time on The View and starred in more than a dozen additional installments of Hallmark’s Aurora Teagarden Mysteries series.
Jedediah Bila
Bila went back to Fox News after her time on The View, serving as a co-host of Fox & Friends from 2019 to 2021.
