{"id":994753,"date":"2026-05-30T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/994753\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:11:30","slug":"joy-behar-clarifies-the-view-absence-is-for-london-play-not-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/994753\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Behar clarifies ‘The View’ absence is for London play, not ‘hiatus’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n

“The View” co-host Joy Behar<\/a> addressed her upcoming extended break from the daytime talk show, clarifying on Friday that it should not be called a “hiatus.”<\/p>\n

Joy Behar\u00a0initially announced on Tuesday,<\/a> during the show’s “Behind the Table” podcast, that she would be taking some time off from her hosting duties. The show’s producer, Brian Teta,\u00a0said during the podcast<\/a>, “This is your last podcast for a little bit, because next week you’re not going to be here.”<\/p>\n

Behar addressed the rumors on Friday about her upcoming break and cleared the air as she plugged her upcoming play.<\/p>\n

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Joy Behar clarified that her upcoming break from the show will not be a hiatus, but a two-week trip for her upcoming show in London. (Gary Gershoff\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“Okay, so there\u2019s been a lot of media attention on me lately because I\u2019m taking off the next two weeks. They\u2019re calling it a hiatus. It\u2019s not a hiatus,” she said. “I\u2019m working. I have a planned trip overseas next week to work on my play, \u2018My First Ex-Husband,\u2019 in London.”<\/p>\n

As the audience cheered, she encouraged viewers to check out the official website for her play “to find out where else you can see that play and others.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve written a bunch of plays,” she said, noting she will be doing another one in the Hamptons at the end of summer called “Bonkers in the Boroughs.”<\/p>\n

‘THE VIEW’ CO-HOSTS CLASH OVER WHETHER TO EMBRACE EX-TRUMPERS LIKE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Joy Behar’s upcoming show will reportedly be an “adaptation of true stories” about romance. (Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)<\/p>\n

“I love that they\u2019re calling it a hiatus,” co-host Sara Haines said<\/a>. “That\u2019s a break, people, when you stop working.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Are you going to miss me?” Behar asked her co-hosts.<\/p>\n

“We are going to miss you,” multiple co-hosts replied, and Haines suggested that Behar could still text them the jokes she would like to contribute from afar.<\/p>\n

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According to the website, her play “My First Ex-Husband” is “a bold and heartfelt adaptation of true stories by the legendary Joy Behar, comedienne and co-host of \u2018The View.\u2019 With razor-sharp wit and no filters, it explores the messy, hilarious truths of love, sex, and relationships.”<\/p>\n

The website added that, “A rotating cast of stars from theatre, television and film join the show, brings their unique personalities to tell these tales that may be eerily familiar.”<\/p>\n

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Fox News’ Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

Alexander Hall is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Alexander.hall@fox.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “The View” co-host Joy Behar addressed her upcoming extended break…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":994754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,4082,393,139011,4884,466,57858,257,49009,16,15],"class_list":["post-994753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-celebrity-news","tag-england","tag-fox-news-media","tag-great-britain","tag-interviews","tag-joy-behar","tag-london","tag-the-view","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116664644728883288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}