Rosie O’Donnell said during a recent appearance on “Watch What Happens Live” that she would be open to guest-hosting “The View” if she was invited to do so.
O’Donnell was asked by an audience member if she saw former host Elisabeth Hasselbeck return to “The View” as a guest and if she would ever do the same. O’Donnell replied, “I did catch her on [’The View’], and I would be up to guest host, but they haven’t asked me. So we’ll see what happens, but, you know, listen, it’s interesting. In the time of Trump, I think she’s the perfect person they want on TV spouting their rhetoric.”
Host Andy Cohen then asked O’Donnell, referencing her viral on-camera fight with Hasselbeck back in 2007, “Are you still annoyed that the director went to the split screen?” O’Donnell quipped back, “Ya, I’m still annoyed. Believe me, a mommy knows how to hold a grudge.”
O’Donnell first joined “The View” as co-host in 2007, but left after a single season. As referenced by Cohen, her first stint on the Barbara Walters-created talk show was capped by a heated, on-air argument with Hasselbeck about the Iraq War. O’Donnell rejoined “The View” in 2015, only to abruptly exit five months into her 11-month contract with ABC. She told “Entertainment Tonight” in the aftermath that she left the show to focus on her family after her divorce from Michelle Rounds.
