Disney and ABC News heads reportedly called on the hosts of “The View” to dial down political talk on the program — and the panel wasn’t having it, sources told The Daily Beast.
The hosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin, Ana Navarro and Sara Haines — are known for dishing blunt takes on President Donald Trump’s administration, and the panels’ discussions certainly haven’t stopped since his election.
The political rhetoric seemingly disturbed top executives such as Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic, the latter of whom met with the hosts and the show’s executive producer Brian Teta to suggest that they cool it, The Daily Beast reported Wednesday.
The women of “The View,” sources explained, weren’t having it with the “silly” requests and look to just “keep doing their thing” on the program.
“This is what our audience wants. Isn’t it gonna look kind of bad if we’re all of a sudden not talking about politics?” one source familiar with the meeting reportedly said of the hosts’ response to their boss.
