The new season of The View got off to a somber start for Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg.
The outspoken television personality’s beloved mother, Emma Johnson, passed away Aug. 29 after suffering a stroke a few days earlier. Goldberg, who had been appearing in the London theatre production of Sister Act, cut short her run aftr learning of her mom’s illness and was by her side when she died.
Whoopi Goldberg has cut her run on the West End production of Sister Act short after her mother — Emma –suffered a stroke this week. The Oscar winner had been set to depart her role as Mother Superior in the London show at the end of the month, but producers say the actress flew back to the States early Friday after learning of her mother’s grave condition.
“The thoughts and sincere best wishes of the producers and the entire ‘Sister Act’ company are with her at this difficult time,” they said in a statement.
Goldberg is a producer of the stage version of her hit 1992 movie about an on-the-lam lounge singer who hides out from her mobster boyfriend in a San Francisco convent.
Sister Act is due to open on Broadway next year.
To mark her run in the West End musical Sister Act, Madame Tussauds London unveiled a re-dressed wax figure of Whoopi Goldberg, wearing an exact replica of the costume she wears on stage for her role as Mother Superior.
As cinema buffs will recall, The View host played Deloris Van Carte — a lounge singer on the run from the mob who seeks refuge in a San Francisco convent — in the 1992 original and a sequel two years later.
August 5th, 2010 by Castina
Tagged as: Michaele Salahi,The Real Housewives Of Washington,The View,Whoopi Goldberg
Do you think Whoopi Goldberg went too far on The View yesterday?
Whoopi Goldberg will be offering “no apologies” for the backstage Battle Royale that broke out on the set of The View Wednesday after the Sister Act actress allegedly “hit” White House Gatecrasher/reality personality Michaele Salahi.
In the words of our favorite viral celeb, Antoine Dodson: “You can run and tell that!”
August 5th, 2010 by Castina
Tagged as: Michaele Salahi,The Real Housewives Of Washington,The View,TV,TV News,Whoopi Goldberg
On ABC’s The View Wednesday, White House Gatecrasher Michaele and host Whoopi Goldberg clashed when the cast of the new Bravo docu-soap The Real Housewives of DC dropped by the morning gabfest, prompting an encounter between Goldberg and Salahi that allegedly ended with Whoopi “violently shaking” the waify fameseeker.
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