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Joy Behar has set a timetable for leaving “The View” after 21 seasons.
After her contract with ABC expires in the summer of 2022, Behar, 77, plans to step down as the show’s liberal resident.She discussed her plans in a recent interview for the paperback edition of Ramin Setoodeh’s nonfiction book “Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View’.”
Behar stated in the book, “I have a three-year contract.” “However, just because they can’t actually do anything to me right now doesn’t mean I can’t leave if I want to. I don’t think I’ll stay much longer. I’m done now! I might be in the wrong.
I’ll give it some thought if I’m still amazing in [2022]. But the likelihood that would happen…” She paused to think. “I realize that time moves quickly. I am not a child.
Behar has been speculating a 2022 exit from “The View,” according to numerous sources.
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The departure of Behar was refuted by an ABC spokeswoman. ‘This is not accurate,’ a network representative stated. If Joy is “as amazing in [2022] as I am now,” as she stated in the interview, “she will be in her seat at the table,” according to the question about what will happen when her contract expires.
Behar will retire from “The View” just before she turns 80 if her plan comes to pass. In 2014, at the age of 84, the show’s creator Barbara Walters ended her tenure.
Behar has hosted “The View” for the longest of all the co-hosts. After trying out for Walters, she joined the talk show when it premiered in 1997, and over the past three decades, as the TV landscape has transformed, she has endured several exits and reboots.
Behar was let off by ABC Daytime executives in 2013 when they determined that “The View” should be less political (an idea that seems laughable now).
She was reinstated to the Hot Topics panel in 2015 after ratings plummeted while she was absent, and she has since thrived with her snappy analysis of the most recent controversies coming out of the Trump White House.
In order to protect herself against the coronavirus, Behar took time off from “The View” on March 13. Behar has joined the show remotely from the Hamptons, where she has been residing, while the other co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Meghan McCain, and Sunny Hostin, have begun working from home.
Next week, St. Martin’s Press will release “Ladies Who Punch” in paperback. The majority of the show’s key figures, including Walters, Behar, Rosie O’Donnell, Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Jenny McCarthy, and Sherri Shepherd, are interviewed in the book, which debuted as a New York Times best seller in April 2019.
