The View host Whoopi Goldberg strikes multi-year deal with show after Megan McCain quits following feud
WHOOPI Goldberg just signed a new multi-year deal to continue .
The 65-year-old actress and TV personality will remain on the daytime talk show for four more years.
reports that Whoopi will stay on the show until at least season 28. It's currently in its 25th season.
co-hosts the show with Joy Behar, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin.
The Sister Act star has served as the show's moderator since 2007.
The new deal comes after Meghan McCain exited the show leaving a co-host vacancy the show is yet to fill.
A line-up of conservative guest co-hosts will fill her spot in the coming months including Condoleezza Rice, Mia Love, Gretchen Carlson, and Alyssa Farah.
MEGHAN'S EXIT
Meghan abruptly announced her departure from the show on July 1, 2021 after joining the show in October 2017 and staying for a total of four seasons.
She said her decision was mainly motivated by her family and wanting to spend more time with her husband Ben Domenech and daughter Liberty.
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Despite having two years left on her contract, Meghan gave up her hosting duties at the end of the show's 24th season on August 6.
On her exit Meghan called her co-stars - the "four most talented women on television" and the "best in the business."
However, while concluding her announcement, she took a swipe at the renowned fights that had with the hosts.
"If you guys want to fight a little bit more, we've got four more weeks," she quipped.
During her announcement, Meghan shared that her father - John McCain - was one of the driving forces for her to join The View.
She revealed that this was one of the last things he encouraged her to do before he died in 2018.
reported in 2019 that Meghan felt dejected and sabotaged by her colleagues at ABC and was seriously contemplating leaving the show.
One source, who was a friend of McCain's, told CNN that Meghan didn't "think it's worth it anymore."
A senior ABC employee, who also spoke to the outlet at the time, claimed Meghan was "miserable" at the network.
, generating numerous headlines in tabloids over the years.
As she announced her own departure, Meghan took issue with the press' coverage of the show, saying that the co-hosts are covered with "deep misogyny."
WHOOPI FEUDS WITH MEGHAN
Meghan butted heads with Whoopi on more than one occasion.
Meghan was speaking about Trump’s first impeachment trial in December 2019 when Whoopi tried to shut her down.
"Girl, please stop talking, please stop talking right now," Whoopi shouted.
"No problem, I won’t talk the rest of this show," Meghan hit back.
"I’m OK with that," Whoopi told her as they continued to fight.
In April the panel discussed the MLB pulling an All-Star game from Atlanta after Georgia introduced stricter voting laws.
“Republicans and Democrats have to learn to live with each other,” Meghan claimed, while Whoopi could be heard saying: “They do know that — oh, for frogs’ legs.”
“I’m sorry?” Meghan asked Whoopi.
“Are you done?” Whoopi fired back.
The moment led to a long awkward silence that was widely shared on social media.
TRUMP VS. BIDEN
In June Whoopi slammed the Republican for equating Joe Biden to Donald Trump.
Meghan had claimed Biden "embarrassed himself" when meeting Vladimir Putin.
“Just because Trump was so bad, it doesn't absolve Biden's bad behavior," Meghan said.
"What he just did was 100 percent Trumpy."
"I would just like a little intellectual consistency," she went on.
"If Trump had done that, we would be screaming at the top of our lungs in one way or another."
However, Whoopi did not appreciate Meghan's likening of Biden to Trump.
"The thing that I never saw Trump do was to apologize to anybody," she said.
"With all due respect, I don't care if he's apologizing, he just embarrassed him," Meghan interrupted.
"I don't care if you don't care, just hear what I'm saying," Whoopi tried to reply over heavy crosstalk.
"I don't care if you don't care that I don't care," Meghan said.
"Well then good Meghan," Whoopi replied. "Then you can be how you always are."
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"You'll be how you always are," Meghan retorted before Whoopi cut to commercial.
Following the break, Whoopi apologized to Meghan.
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