{"id":2422164,"date":"2026-05-18T18:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2422164"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:10:39","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-censors-herself-on-the-view-before-nearly-profane-slip-live-on-air-you-caught-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/whoopi-goldberg-censors-herself-on-the-view-before-nearly-profane-slip-live-on-air-you-caught-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg censors herself on \u201cThe View\u201d before nearly profane slip live on air: &#8216;You caught it!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Whoopi Goldberg censored herself live on <em>The View<\/em> amid recent scrutiny by the FCC<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The EGOT-winning actress nearly uttered a profanity before catching herself as she discussed a news story about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You caught it!&#8221; Sunny Hostin celebrated at the Hot Topics table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/whoopi-goldberg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Whoopi Goldberg;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Whoopi Goldberg&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> just handled a nearly profane slip-up on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/the-view\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:The View;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The View&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>The View<\/em><\/a> with comical grace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The EGOT winner and <em>View<\/em> moderator started this week&#8217;s round of episodes in amusing fashion, as she censored herself Monday morning before using a curse word live on the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During a Hot Topics discussion about Donald Trump sharing AI-generated images (including one of himself walking alongside an extraterrestrial), Goldberg estimated that the American public is growing weary of the president&#8217;s priorities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin on &#8216;The View&#8217;<br \/>Credit: ABC<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not that they&#8217;re saying, &#8216;Oh, no more, no more,&#8217; they&#8217;re saying, &#8216;Listen, I don&#8217;t have time for this,'&#8221; the 70-year-old said midway through the discussion. &#8220;There are folks on strike, there are people trying to get to their jobs, there are people trying to take care of their sick kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued, &#8220;There are people in the country who are trying to make sense of how they can survive on a daily basis. They don&#8217;t have time for this bull&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Goldberg then trailed off and looked toward the audience with a playfully mischievous look on her face, as the crowd applauded her for stopping herself in the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You caught it! You caught it!&#8221; panelist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/sunny-hostin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Sunny Hostin;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sunny Hostin&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sunny Hostin<\/a> said, celebrating the save.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I had something on my lip,&#8221; Goldberg joked afterward, before continuing on with her point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;They don&#8217;t have time for any of this. They only have time to make sure they can get through the day with their family, safely,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If he&#8217;s not going to give a damn about it, you have to. And we do, and November will tell us, really, where we all are as a nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Goldberg and her <em>View<\/em> peers are often censored on the air, with Ana Navarro and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/sara-haines-the-view-oz-pearlman-atm-pin-11851763\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Sara Haines also using profanity on recent editions;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sara Haines also using profanity on recent editions&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sara Haines also using profanity on recent editions<\/a> that prompted the show&#8217;s crew to cut their audio in the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In November, a shocked Haines exclaimed, &#8220;What the f&#8212;?&#8221; after celebrity mentalist Oz Pearlman revealed her ATM PIN live on the air in an exchange Haines said was against her will.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"'The View' cohostsCredit: Jeff Lipsky\/ABC\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/eWBxVWDHfIg0_8aYmLEEpQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/entertainment_weekly_785\/8065c278882ec68037fe131ffecf6407\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>&#8216;The View&#8217; cohosts<br \/>Credit: Jeff Lipsky\/ABC<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cohost <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/sara-haines-cried-the-view-atm-pin-11853676\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Joy Behar later revealed that Haines;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Joy Behar later revealed that Haines&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Joy Behar later revealed that Haines<\/a> had a &#8220;nervous breakdown&#8221; on set after the segment ended, which felt, to her, like a &#8220;betrayal&#8221; of Haines&#8217; trust. (Pearlman did not respond to <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>&#8216;s multiple requests for comment.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In recent weeks, <em>The View<\/em> has come under fire from the Federal Communications Commission for allegedly violating the FCC&#8217;s long-standing &#8220;equal time&#8221; rule upon airing an interview with Texas senate candidate James Talarico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;EW Dispatch newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong><em>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FCC head Brendan Carr additionally <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/the-view-is-subject-of-fcc-investigation-chair-brendan-carr-says-11909338\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:said in February that the FCC would be &quot;taking a look at&quot;;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said in February that the FCC would be &amp;quot&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said in February that the FCC would be &#8220;taking a look at&#8221;<\/a> the show ahead of &#8220;an enforcement action underway,&#8221; with Disney responding in May via a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/document\/10507899614175\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:petition for declaratory ruling;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;petition for declaratory ruling&quot;}\" class=\"link \">petition for declaratory ruling<\/a>. Legal representatives for Disney \u2014 the parent company of <em>The View<\/em>&#8216;s network home at ABC \u2014 argued that the FCC&#8217;s alleged actions against the show &#8220;threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech, both with respect to <em>The View<\/em> and more broadly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The View<\/em> airs weekdays on ABC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/the-view-whoopi-goldberg-censors-herself-swear-live-on-air-11977372\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Entertainment Weekly;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Entertainment Weekly&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Whoopi Goldberg censored herself live on The View amid recent scrutiny by the FCC. The EGOT-winning actress nearly uttered a profanity before catching herself as she discussed a news story about Donald Trump. &#8220;You caught it!&#8221; Sunny Hostin celebrated at the Hot Topics table. 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