Jenny McCarthy is reflecting on her time on “The View.”
The actress, 52, bought candid on cohosting the daytime speak present from 2013 to 2014.
“I was hired to bring pop culture to ‘The View,’” McCarthy instructed Maria Menounos on her “Heal Squad” upcoming podcast episode, per Us Weekly. “They got rid of — at the time — Joy [Behar] and Elisabeth [Hasselbeck]. They wanted to do a whole flip of the show and lighten it up.”
Regardless of becoming a member of the present underneath the impression of being a “pop culture buzzy girl,” the mannequin alleged the present’s route modified shortly after.
McCarthy recalled a second specifically along with her cohost Barbara Walters — who was on “The View” from 1997 till 2014.
The “Jenny” alum made a remark about Katy Perry, who Walters had “just interviewed” for a particular. However throughout the dialog, when McCarthy introduced up the singer, 40, she claimed the late journalist replied, “Who’s Katy Perry?”
“It was the first sign that I realized that Barbara was suffering from beginning stages of dementia,” McCarthy confessed to Menounos, 46. “I was like, ‘Oh s–t.’ It was literally not even a week into the show. They were like, ‘We’re flipping it. There’s no more pop culture. We’re going back to politics.’ … [Barbara] knew politics but she didn’t know pop culture.”
There have been stories Walters suffered from dementia in her later years, however her analysis was by no means confirmed.
Wanting again on her time on the present, the “Masked Singer” host recalled why she determined to go away.
“They want you to fight,” McCarthy claimed whereas on the podcast. “They wanted to immediately switch from light and fluffy to fight. I’m not a fighter. … I choose the side of peace in any fight. You want to be right, go ahead with that, and I’m going to have my peace.”
10 years after leaving the present, the “Santa Baby” actress received’t overlook the rollercoaster trip that ensued.
“When they announced [me joining] ‘The View,’ it was crazy. Immediately there was a change.org petition to get me off the show,” McCarthy recalled. “They were blowing up ‘The View.’ ‘How dare you hire her.’ … It was the hardest job in the world because it was not me.”
Walters, in the meantime, introduced she was retiring from her co-hosting position on “The View” after spearheading the present in 1997. Walters nonetheless labored on her “Most Fascinating People” particular in 2014 and 2015.
The famed anchor died in 2022 on the age of 93. Nonetheless, she hadn’t been seen in public since 2016.
In 2014, she instructed Self-importance Honest in one in every of her final interviews: “Do I see myself as a feminist idol? No. I don’t see myself as anything. I do not see myself as a trailblazer. I don’t think about that. I get up, and I do my day, and I do my work, and I see friends. But I don’t sit and think about how I see myself, or what my legacy is.”
