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Maybe some topics are just too hot. On today’s episode of ABC’s The View, co-host Joy Behar opened the show with a quick – very quick – reference to moderator Whoopi Goldberg’s two-week suspension over her comments about the Holocaust. “You all saw the news,” Behar said. “Whoopi will be back here in two weeks.” The…

Meghan McCain appeared on Fox News’ Hannity on Tuesday to talk further about her departure from The View, as she said that she was “targeted” as the “token conservative” on the show. Host Sean Hannity opened the segment by playing clips from The View in which Joy Behar bluntly told McCain she did not miss her while…

As ABC’s The View continues its first (and significantly quieter) week post-Meghan McCain, the show’s former conservative co-host has announced her latest gig: As a columnist for British tabloid DailyMail.com. “Everything in my life these days is about going back to basics,” McCain tweeted today. “I started as a…

UPDATE, with complete video Meghan McCain’s final, argument-free episode of ABC’s The View ended in smiles and well wishes without so much as an echo of her famous on-air contretemps with co-hosts. Following a taped tribute of happy and sentimental clips from past episodes, McCain signed off on her four-year run as…

UPDATE, Tuesday Mary L. Trump has responded to Meghan McCain’s request that the Trump family leave the McCain family “the f*ck alone,” with the niece and critic of Donald Trump tweeting last night: “I have plenty of respect for Meghan's parents. It's too bad she can't take responsibility for her own actions. That's…

UPDATE, with McCain tweet The View co-host Meghan McCain isn’t off to an easy final week on the ABC daytime talk show: On today’s episode, guest Mary Trump accused the departing McCain of lacking “the courage” to appear in Trump’s segment. McCain, whose final day on the show is this Friday, was on board for most of…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has given a green light to new original movie Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story (working title), with Heather Locklear (Melrose Place) set to star in the title role, and Meghan McCain executive producing. This is McCain’s first project since she announced her departure as…

UPDATED with on-air comments from McCain and co-hosts: After a nearly four-year run on The View, Meghan McCain is exiting as co-host of the daytime talker. Her departure will come at the close of the current season, which wraps at the end of July. McCain made the announcement at the top of today’s show. (Watch it…

UPDATE, with video Whoopi Goldberg and Meghan McCain were discussing Joe Biden’s post-Putin flash of temper and subsequent apology when they more or less re-enacted the president’s pique episode. On today’s The View, McCain was ripping into Biden’s press conference performance yesterday, saying that the president’s…

That Gen Z Hospital flop isn’t going to get Michael Che down. The Saturday Night Live writer and performer said on ABC’s The View today that he’s “99.9 percent sure” he’ll return to NBC’s late-night comedy show next season. Che joked that the sliver of doubt exists because “at the end of a season I always think I’m…

UPDATE, 1:03 PM PT: Rick Santorum has responded to the pushback he’s received over comments he made about Native American culture. In a statement, he said, "I had no intention of minimizing or in any way devaluing Native American culture." Speaking about the origins of the United States to a conference of the Young…

Although The View co-host – and outspoken critic of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo – Meghan McCain apologized this week for having dismissed as irrelevant Donald Trump’s racist nicknames for Covid-19, she hasn’t backtracked on her disdain for what she calls “identity politics,” a stance that today prompted a rather…