“The View” is kicking off the new year without Whoopi Goldberg — at least for a little bit. On Monday’s episode, host Joy Behar announced that her co-host will be absent from the show this week, after testing positive for COVID over the holiday.
“Well, Whoopi, unfortunately, tested positive over the break,” Behar revealed at the top of the show. “But she’ll be back, probably next week. But since she’s vaxxed and boosted, her symptoms have been very, very mild, but we’re being super cautious here at ‘The View.’”
Indeed, in the name of being cautious, for the first week of episodes in 2022, the panel of women will do the show from home, as they did for much of 2021.