Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned from maternity leave and took her place at the table for her first day on The View on Monday — but gabby conservative returned with a little more than expected.
The chatfest co-host came armed with a photo of her newborn son Isaiah for the rest of the hens to coo over, but that wasn’t the picture that caused a controversy.
When sending out a different picture of her new son to family and friends, Elisabeth was horrified to realize she was showing the clan more than she bargained for. “You know when your baby smiles for the first time — I reach for the iPhone and take the photo. No wonder why he is smiling — because my nipple is in the photo!” she explained.
“It’s worse than drunk dialing. It’s embarrassing.”
Isaiah is Elisabeth’s third child with husband Tim. The couple also the parents of 4-year-old daughter Grace and son Taylor, born last year.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck will return to The View on Oct. 19, ABC confirmed Wednesday.
Drats!!
The conservative — and often controversial chatterbox — took maternity leave from ABC’s feminine gabfest two days before giving birth to her third child, Isaiah Timothy, with NFL player husband Tim Hasselbeck on Aug. 9. Elisabeth’s return ends more than a month of appearances from celebrity guest hosts, including La Toya Jackson, Kate Gosselin, and Heidi Montag.
“I’ve lost my political opposite,” said co-host Joy Behar.
“The other people were nice, but they weren’t her,” Whoopi Goldberg added.
Whoopi Goldberg has been branded a “rape apologist” for suggesting Roman Polanski’s sex with a 13 year old girl three decades ago was not “rape-rape”.
The director was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday and is currently fighting extradition to the US over his 1977 conviction for unlawful sex with a minor. Polanski admitted having sex with former model Samantha Gremier, the 13, at the Hollywood mansion of Jack Nicholson. The critically-acclaimed director fled the US before he was sentenced, claiming the judge in the case reneged on a plea bargain deal. He later settled in France. Read the rest of this entry »
The Hills’ Heidi Montag-Pratt will step in for Elisabeth Hasselbeck as guest host of The View next Thursday, Oct. 1, but it won’t be her first time on the ABC morning gabfest.
During an appearance last summer, Heidi and her then-boyfriend Spencer Pratt were chastised for their infamous onscreen antics on their MTV reality smash by co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who told them: “You better get yourselves together or you’re going to be in the street. You’re going to have to take responsibility. You’re too old now. Last year it was cute. Now you’re adults.”
With conservative chatterbox Elisabeth Hasselbeck still out on maternity leave, American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi is the latest star joining the round table for a guest co-hosting gig on The View, ABC News announced on Monday.
Kara will guest co-host the Emmy-winning daytime talk show, alongside regulars Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Sherri Shepherd, on October 15. The singer/songwriter/producer made her View debut following the American Idol finale last May. The appearance will be the first time Kara has co-hosted the show.
Kate Gosselin and Kathy Griffin both brought humor to The View on Friday, as the controversial reality mom praised the Emmy-winning comedienne’s recent parody of her during an appearance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live last Wednesday.
“I caught myself cracking up out loud,” Kate said of Kathy’s spoof in a trailer for the mock biopic Kate Is Enough. “You’re awesome.”
Fresh off her rumored ban from the daytime gabfest, Kathy walked out showing off her new book, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, which is number one on The New York Times non-fiction list.
Lisa Ling will return to the ABC morning talk show where she launched her career as a guest co-host for two days next month, ABC said Thursday.
Lisa is expected to join Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, and Sherri Shepherd as she sits in for new mom Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View Oct. 5 and 6.
“I’m thrilled to be mixing it up with the women again. I’m hoping that some serious debate ensues,” said Lisa in a statement issued by The View this afternoon.
Lisa left The View in 2002 after three years as a regular to serve as a correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN. Lisa found herself at the center of her own headline-making horror story after her sister, reporter Laura Ling, was sentenced to 12 years “hard labor” in a North Korean prison earlier this year. Laura and her colleague Euna Lee were released and returned to the U.S. Aug. 5.
Kate Gosselin will come face-to-face with one of her harshest critics on The View later this week.
We can hardly wait!
The reality-starring Octomom will confront comedienne Kathy Griffin on The View Friday, following Griffin’s recent media blitz on the Gosselin, her estranged husband Jon, and the family’s TLC reality series Jon & Kate Plus 8, The Chicago Sun-Times reported Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Reality mom Kate Gosselin replaced her signature spiky ‘do with a mane of soft waves on her second day as guest co-host of The View Tuesday. What do you think, guys?
The star of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 is routinely torn by style critics who cringe over her flat ironed in the front/spiky in the back blonde haircut.
“You have a new hairstyle. It’s a first!” said Barbara Walters said as the ladies began the show this morning. “It looks cute!” co-host Joy Behar chimed in. The Eight Little Faces author credits the show’s team of stylists with creating the new look: “Your girls back there, whoo baby! Isn’t it cute?”
On The View Tuesday, country star Taylor Swift chatted with the ladies about her run-in with Kanye West at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.
“I think my overall thought process went something like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe I won. This is awesome. Don’t trip and fall. I’m going to get to thank the fans. This is so cool. Oh, Kanye West is here! Cool haircut,” Taylor giggled. “What are you doing?’ And then ‘Ouch.’ And then, ‘I guess I’m not gonna get to thank the fans.” Read the rest of this entry »
