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Joy Behar announced last week that she’d take a hiatus from The View.
The 83-year-old comedian also confirmed that she’d travel overseas with her play, My First Ex-Husband, during her absence from the Hot Topics table.
She later insisted that her hiatus from The View is “not a hiatus.”
Joy Behar won’t be on The View this week — or next week, for that matter — as the 83-year-old comedian previously announced that she’d take a hiatus from the Hot Topics table to explore another exciting project in her career.
Behar announced last week that she’d be absent from upcoming episodes of the daytime talk show, beginning with the Monday, June 1 episode.
Though she typically has the first episode of each week off anyway, the longtime cohost is actually currently overseas in London, where she and actress Jackie Hoffman are presenting the Behar-penned play My First Ex-Husband following its run in New York City.
After Entertainment Weekly first reported on Behar’s announced hiatus, the cohost attempted to criticize on Friday media coverage of her impending break from the show.
“There’s been a lot of media attention on me lately because I’m taking off the next two weeks. They’re calling it a hiatus. It’s not a hiatus,” Behar said on Friday’s pre-taped episode. Merriam-Webster defines “hiatus” as “a break in” something, especially “an interruption in time or continuity” or “a period when something (such as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted.”
Cohost Sara Haines also took issue with coverage of Behar’s break from the show: “I love that they’re calling it a ‘hiatus,'” Haines said, making air quotes with her fingers. “That’s a break, people.”
Behar and producer Brian Teta initially discussed the star’s planned absence on the Behind the Table podcast, where Teta also revealed that Behar would be gone long enough for the show to bring in guest cohosts to fill in for her.
Among those set to join the Hot Topics table in the episodes ahead are longtime fill-in panelist Sheryl Underwood, journalist Kara Swisher, and extending moderator Whoopi Goldberg‘s panel time into Fridays for the time being, though the EGOT winner typically has the day off each week.
As for when Behar’s will return to The View, a representative for the show declined to provide EW with an exact date when reached for comment.
‘The View’ cohosts
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The comedian did, however, confirm on the Behind the Table podcast the show “made” her “bank the weekend shows” before she left, and said that her last day sitting for live installments was Thursday of last week.
Behar isn’t the only View cohost to have missed multiple episodes of the show in recent months. Alyssa Farah Griffin was absent for around two months, staring in February after the birth of her first child.
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The talk series will welcome an exciting roster of interview guests in Behar’s absence, including First Lady Jill Biden, who’s set to join the table on Tuesday to discuss her new memoir.
The View airs weekdays on ABC.
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