It’s safe to say that Rosie O’Donnell will never return to “The View.” In April, the comedian got candid about her time on the show during an appearance on the “Now What? With Brooke Shields” podcast. “I know this — it’s not the best use of my talent to get in a show where I have to argue and defend basic principles of humanity and kindness,” she told Shields. “It was not something I’d ever do again.”
O’Donnell went into further detail as to why she would never appear on the popular daytime series again. Unsurprisingly, she mentioned Elisabeth Hasselbeck, whom she famously argued with on several occasions on air. “Elisabeth Hasselbeck was on there, and Bill Geddie was the producer of an [all-woman’s] talk show with supposedly a woman’s voice was a man, an old, cis, white man, Republican who was against everything that I believed in and stood for,” O’Donnell explained. The former host also claimed that Geddie favored Hasselbeck and gave her talking points on Republican topics, which he didn’t do for other panel members.
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Aside from feuding with the “Survivor” alum, O’Donnell pointed out that she and Whoopi Goldberg also had their fair share of disagreements when O’Donnell returned to the show the second time which really took O’Donnell by surprise. Even though she’s come and gone before, the comedian has made it clear that she won’t be back again.
