Joy Behar announced that she will be taking a hiatus from The View.
The show’s longtime co-host, 83, said she will miss a number of upcoming episodes while speaking with producer Brian Teta on The View’s Behind the Table podcast on Tuesday.
Behar explained she will be traveling to Europe for a short vacation before going to New York to star in the play My First Ex-Husband.
Teta revealed a few of the people who will be stepping in for Behar, including Trump-hating podcaster and CNN contributor Kara Swisher, 63.
‘Next week we’re going to have Kara Swisher, who’s very funny, very smart, she’ll be great,’ Teta said.
Behar has co-hosted The View since its first season in 1997, and has only missed seasons 17 and 18.
Joy Behar, 83, announced that she will be taking a hiatus from The View; Behar pictured in 2025
The show’s longtime co-host revealed she will miss a number of upcoming episodes as she will be traveling to Europe before going to New York to star in the play My First Ex-Husband
Comedian Sheryl Underwood, 62, will also be among the stars stepping in for Behar.
Ana Navarro, 54 – a current co-host of The View who typically only appears on Mondays and Fridays – will step in as well.
Whoopi Goldberg, 70, who usually takes Fridays off, will have to rearrange her schedule so that she can fill on for Behar on the last day of the work week.
‘I don’t think she knows yet,’ Teta joked, ‘but I’ll let her know that she’s going to be here.’
Aside from Goldberg and Navarro, Behar’s other co-hosts include Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
Teta first brought up the subject of Behar’s absence by asking: ‘This is your last podcast for a little bit, because next week you’re not going to be here. Are we talking about this?’
‘Well, they made me bank the weekend shows even though I’m not here. You better tell people why I’m not [going to be on the show],’ she replied.
Behar then detailed her upcoming itinerary: ‘I fly to Paris this week, and then I go take the tunnel to London after a week.’
She made the announcement while speaking with producer Brian Teta on The View’s Behind the Table podcast on Tuesday (pictured)
Teta revealed a few of the people who will be stepping in for Behar, including Trump-hating podcaster and CNN contributor Kara Swisher, 63; Swisher pictured in 2025
‘And I’ll be in London a second week doing my play, My First Ex-Husband, at the Boulevard Theatre in the West End.’
‘We have Jackie Hoffman and I being the two American women talking, then we have two British actresses. Doesn’t that sound like fun?’
Behar’s hiatus is not out of the ordinary, as she has previously taken longer breaks from the show.
She previously assured fans she had no plans to retire.
‘I just really like to write and create stuff. Creative people don’t really retire. They don’t resign, they just keep going,’ she told Entertainment Tonight in September.
