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Pleasure Behar was joined by The View alums Star Jones, Meredith Vieira and Debbie Matenopoulos for a pre-recorded reunion that aired on Thursday, June 2. The 4 girls had been all the unique co-hosts of the present together with Barbara Walters, who didn’t attend the reunion. The ladies all met up at New York’s Essex Home, the place they’d all first auditioned for the sequence with a “chemistry take a look at.” The group all mirrored on what it was like once they first met within the particular occasion!
The ladies recalled that they’d all auditioned with a number of teams of various girls, however the authentic co-hosts had been all within the group collectively. Debbie, 47, remembered the audition seeming “overwhelming,” particularly as a result of she was new to TV. Meredith, 68, and Star, 60, recalled that the primary dialog that that they had in the course of the audition course of was in regards to the Heaven’s Gate cult. “This specific group clicked immediately,” Pleasure mentioned, as they spoke about making an attempt out with completely different teams. As Pleasure, 79, identified, Star mentioned that it “by no means labored the identical” with different teams.
The discussions had been interspersed with clips from the take a look at run. Meredith additionally revealed that going into the present she didn’t have many expectations, however that modified after the primary audition. “I went in, not with any nerves. I left with quite a lot of nerves, as a result of I left going, ‘I like this,’” she mentioned. “I actually needed it.”
In the course of the dialog, the ladies seemed again on a lot, together with the friends within the early seasons, being spoofed on Saturday Evening Stay, taking exits from the present, however most of all, they spoke about what a particular bond all the ladies shaped throughout their time on the present, and so they sweetly completed by toasting Barbara.
The View is presently celebrating its twenty fifth season, and it’s been jam-packed with tons of former hosts stopping by to look again on the long-lasting discuss present through the years. All through the present season, previous co-hosts, together with Star and Meredith, have stopped by to debate “Sizzling Matters” and look again on their time on the present. Different alums which have stopped by embrace Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hassleback.
When the ladies had gotten collectively to tape their reunion, Debbie posted a photograph of the 4 of them and appeared pleased with being one of many first girls on the desk on the present. ” There can solely ever be one first… and that was us! It’s like we hadn’t missed a beat. If you already know…you already know!!! Take some time to get pleasure from THIS authentic View everybody!” she wrote within the caption.
All through the 25 seasons of The View, there have been 22 girls who’ve sat on the desk and co-host the present, and that doesn’t even account for the quite a few friends and visitor co-hosts. Pleasure is the one authentic co-host nonetheless on the present, and she or he’s adopted by Whoopi Goldberg, who has been on since 2007. Their fellow co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines each joined the present in 2016, though Sunny did have a 2-year hole between 2018 and 2020. All through season 25, the ladies have been joined by a wide selection of conservative commentators to seek out one of the best match to interchange former co-host, Meghan McCain.
