Joy Behar Announces Departure from The View: Longtime Co-Host Steps Back from Iconic Talk Show

Joy Behar has announced that she will temporarily step away from her role on The View.

The show’s longtime liberal co-host, 83, said she will miss a number of upcoming episodes while speaking with producer Brian Teta on The View’s Behind the Table podcast on Tuesday.

Behar shared that she plans to spend some time in Europe for a brief vacation before heading to New York, where she will take the stage in her play, My First Ex-Husband.

In her absence, Teta disclosed a lineup of guest hosts, including Kara Swisher, a well-known critic of Donald Trump and a CNN contributor. Swisher, 63, shares Behar’s critical stance on the former President.

“Next week, Kara Swisher will join us. She’s incredibly funny and insightful, and she’ll be a fantastic addition,” Teta remarked.

Behar has been a fixture on The View since its debut in 1997, with the exception of her absence during the 17th and 18th seasons.

Among the guest hosts stepping in is comedian Sheryl Underwood, 62, who will also lend her talents to the show.

Ana Navarro, 54 – a current co-host of The View who typically only appears on Mondays and Fridays – will step in as well.

Whoopi Goldberg, 70, who usually takes Fridays off, will have to rearrange her schedule so that she can fill in for Behar on the last day of the work week. 

‘I don’t think she knows yet,’ Teta joked, ‘but I’ll let her know that she’s going to be here.’ 

Aside from Goldberg and Navarro, Behar’s other co-hosts include Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin. 

Teta first brought up the subject of Behar’s absence by asking: ‘This is your last podcast for a little bit, because next week you’re not going to be here. Are we talking about this?’

‘Well, they made me bank the weekend shows even though I’m not here. You better tell people why I’m not [going to be on the show],’ she replied.

Behar then detailed her upcoming itinerary: ‘I fly to Paris this week, and then I go take the tunnel to London after a week.’ 

‘And I’ll be in London a second week doing my play, My First Ex-Husband, at the Boulevard Theatre in the West End.’

‘We have Jackie Hoffman and I being the two American women talking, then we have two British actresses. Doesn’t that sound like fun?’

My First Ex-Husband is Behar’s debut comedy play about relationships, marriage, and divorce. It premiered Off-Broadway in New York City in February 2025. 

Behar’s hiatus is not out of the ordinary, as she has previously taken longer breaks from the show.

Earlier this year she missed six episodes of the show due to health issues.

At the time Goldberg made a brief statement acknowledging Behar’s absence from the panel.

‘We want to let you know Joy is out, she’s not feeling well, so we want her to feel better and get her behind back here,’ Goldberg said.

Behar previously had to sit out four episodes last autumn after she suffered an injury to her foot.

‘I dropped my iPad on my foot and I broke my toe,’ Behar said in November.

She previously assured fans she had no plans to retire.

Behar is an original member of the show’s panel, having been on the inaugural edition in 1997; Seen with Barbara Walters, Star Jones, Meredith Vieira and Debbie Matenopoulos in a throwback photo

‘I just really like to write and create stuff. Creative people don’t really retire. They don’t resign, they just keep going,’ she told Entertainment Tonight in September.

Behar is an original member of the show’s panel, having been on the inaugural edition in 1997.

After a departure in 2013, she came back in 2015 and has been a stalwart on the popular current events show in the decade-plus since.

The View can be seen on ABC weekdays at 11/10c.