Separate Natural Events Caused 3 ‘The View’ Hosts to Miss a Taping
After nearly 30 years on the air, fans of The View have come to expect a certain level of predictability in the series. Occasionally, though, they are met with an odd occurrence. The show’s return from the Fourth of July weekend was anything but typical. Viewers tuning in noticed something was off. Instead of The Views usual full panel, only three of the six regular co-hosts were seated at the table. As it turns out, the missing trio wasn’t the result of any single scheduling snafu or coordinated absence. Three completely unrelated brushes with nature kept them on the sidelines.
‘The View’ was down three hosts on July 6
The Monday after a holiday weekend always feels a bit strange, but The View team dealt with more strangeness than most. Joy Behar, who typically doesn’t appear on the Monday broadcast, sat front and center with two co-hosts and one guest.
Behar explained the exceedingly light cast, with Alyssa Farah Griffin chiming in that her co-hosts were “dropping like flies.” Griffin’s joke was dark, but thankfully, nothing too terribly happened to the hosts. They were all sidelined by nature, and each incident happened thousands of miles apart.
All three were unexpectedly absent thanks to nature
Ana Navarro was one of the three who wrestled with nature and lost. Behar revealed she was stuck in Miami after severe weather grounded her flight. Florida’s summer weather patterns are notorious for sudden, flight-disrupting storms, but it wasn’t the Sunshine State that was to blame this time. Navarro explained that heavy rain and flooding in New York kept her grounded in Miami.
Sara Haines was also grappling with the storms that absolutely decimated the East Coast over the holiday weekend. Behar said Haines couldn’t make it in because she was dealing with storm damage. Behar didn’t go too deeply into Haines’ situation, but Haines lives in Northern New Jersey, where wind damage and flooding were widespread. Many buildings flooded during a sudden onslaught of torrential rain, and debris interrupted PATH service through much of July 6.
While Haines and Navarro were both dealing with severe weather issues, Whoopi Goldberg had the most dramatic reason for her failure to appear. Goldberg was stuck in Sicily. An active volcano kept her flight from departing the Mediterranean paradise. Behar jokingly referred to it as “the old volcano excuse,” before Goldberg chimed in via video to explain the situation. Goldberg explained she decided to enjoy the holiday weekend in Italy when she was suddenly trapped by the eruption of Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Goldberg is safe and in no danger.
