Pleasure Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck reunite, keep silent on “The View” drama after latter slammed comic and ‘sinking’ discuss present

Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on 'The View' Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on 'The View'
Pleasure Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on 'The View'. Credit score:

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Former on-air colleagues Pleasure Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck reunited Tuesday at The View's Sizzling Subjects desk and remained silent on previous drama, when Hasselbeck publicly criticized the comic and the "sinking" discuss present after the 83-year-old voiced disdain for Carrie Underwood's resolution to carry out at Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration.

Although Hasselbeck, a former cohost from 2003-13, rejoined the present Monday for a weeklong visitor gig, the ex-peers didn't formally reunite on the air till Tuesday, as Behar sometimes has Mondays off.

After strolling out to the Sizzling Subjects desk alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Sara Haines, the duo didn't acknowledge their previous drama, regardless of Hasselbeck publicly criticizing each Behar and her former office amid information of Underwood's efficiency on the presidential occasion.

"I missed you yesterday, Pleasure," Hasselbeck informed Behar, who replied, "It’s just like the outdated days with me and Elisabeth, how lengthy have been we right here collectively?"

Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on 'The View' in 2006
Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Walters, Pleasure Behar, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on 'The View' in 2006.

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Hasselbeck then claimed that she and Behar "are like household," which Hostin confirmed by telling Hasselbeck that Behar disapproved of her blue, patterned costume, quipping, "You understand you’re near Pleasure when she begins making enjoyable of the garments you’re carrying."
In early 2025, Hasselbeck voiced criticism for Behar's remarks about Underwood, writing on her Instagram Story, "Pleasure — @carrieunderwood is an INCREDIBLE WOMAN. You possibly can study from her energy."

She additionally posted a staunch criticism on X, which learn, "That @TheView @JoyVBehar must simmer down off my good friend," and later expanded her ideas on Behar "calling Carrie Underwood Un-American." It must be famous, nonetheless, that Behar by no means used the phrase "un-American" in her feedback about Underwood on that week's episode of The View.

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Hasselbeck additionally appeared as a visitor on Sean Hannity's Fox Information TV present to deal with her views on Behar. She stated on the air on the time that The View (which beforehand invited Hasselbeck again as a visitor cohost in 2022, and once more as a visitor for Barbara Walters' tribute episode in January 2023), in her estimation, "refused to place anybody there who has a lick of sense on most days."
She added that Behar's criticism of Underwood felt, to her, like "nothing greater than egocentric private publicity-gaining proper now," and that Behar "desires to connect her title to Carrie Underwood’s title in order that she maintains relevance as a result of she is aware of the ship is sinking."

Leisure Weekly has reached out to a consultant for The View for remark.

Hasselbeck's first day again on the Sizzling Subjects desk — which got here amid a revolving door of conservative visitor cohosts throughout Alyssa Farah Griffin's maternity go away — was dramatic from the beginning, with the Survivor alum calling for civility amongst ladies as she took her seat.

Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters on 'The View' in 2007
Whoopi Goldberg, Pleasure Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters on 'The View' in 2007.

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"And, pay attention, civil discourse just isn’t lifeless. We’d have variations of opinion, however we love one another and we're stronger," Hasselbeck stated on the present.

"I truly assume for the younger individuals watching it's essential to see which you can have — Whoopi, you've stated it earlier than — we will maintain our positions in a single hand, and one another's hand within the different, and be capable to simply reside as Individuals with the liberty that we’ve and communicate our hearts and minds," she continued. "We get to do this all week. It’d get a little bit spicy at instances, however we don’t hate one another, we love one another. We now have the liberty to do it, and it's essential to remind all people of that."

Moments later, Hostin referred to as Hasselbeck out for voting for Trump, to which Hasselbeck replied, "I proudly voted for Trump as a result of the choice was not nice, and we'd completely be underneath the fallacious energy if the choice [was elected]."

The View airs weekdays on ABC.

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