Whoopi Goldberg breaks silence after rumours The View hosts will quit show

17 July 2023 , 18:37

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Many fans took to Twitter, wondering if The View was going to continue amid actors strike (Image: ABC)

On Friday, The View was pre-recorded, scaring fans into wondering if the show would join the SAG-AFTRA strike that's been occurring since last Thursday.

Whoopi Goldberg however had an answer for die-hard View fans, holding their breath. She started the show on Monday by saying: "Hello and welcome to The View. Listen, we want to start with an explanation on why we're still working when there is a SAG-AFTRA strike."

"Like the soaps, soap operas, game shows, and new shows, we work under a different kind of contract, which is called the Network Code, which means we are allowed to continue on."

After the show aired on Friday, fans of the show quickly went to Twitter to write about their concerns. "Do we know if the hosts are striking? Today was pre-recorded, so it's hard to tell," one tweet said.

The View will continue on amid the strike due to different contracts (ABC)

On Thursday, President of SAG-AFTRA Fran Drescher, known for her starring role in The Nanny, and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator, announced that the national board voted unanimously to strike.

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"The gig is up," said Drescher. She addressed the AMPTP, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, after failing to reach a deal with them: "They plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right, when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting — shame on them."

Many actors have joined the strike, even the cast of Oppenheimer walked out early during their London premiere when the strike was announced.

Whoopi Goldberg has been on The View since 2007 (Getty Images for FLC)

Whoopi reassured fans the show would go on during Monday's show (Getty Images)

But with The View, the show must go on. It also continued after the Writer's Guild of America went on strike in May, but sans writers. This is the first time in over 60 years that the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are on strike at the same time.

"As we are not actors at the table, acting The View, it's a different kind of contract," Whoopi continued.

She did show her support for the strike, saying: "Nobody wants to see anyone on strike."

The View is hosted by Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Whoopi, who has been a member since 2007 and has come under a lot of controversy in the past for things she's said on the show.

The most recent controversy is when she made comments about the Holocaust, saying it was not based on race but "about man's inhumanity to man."

Tatiana Krisztina