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Season 29 of ABC’s “The View” with Ana Navarro to Premiere on September 8

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Ana Navarro is coming into view again…

The View, featuring the 53-year-old Nicaraguan political strategist and commentator as a co-host, will return on ABC for Season 29 on September 8, the network has nnounced.

Ana Navarro, The ViewIn addition to Navarro, the top-rated daytime talk show also features hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin.

“This is why you should always keep coming back to The View, because you never know what’s going to happen,” Goldberg says in a teaser clip of the new season released on YouTube. 

According to 1iota, the free ticketing service used by the series, upcoming guests for The View include Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Hemming Willis, and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on September 9.

On September 11, Barbie Oscar nominee America Ferrera will join the program, which will tape a show with Shrinking actor Michael Urie, presumably to air the following day.

Matthew McConaughey will appear on the September 15 show alongside former Senator Joe Manchin. John Edward, Marlon Wayans and Robin Wright will be on “The View” on September 16, and Lily James will appear later that week.

Guests in the following days include Priscilla Presley, Shark Tank stars Barbara Corcoran and Daymond John, Regina Hall, Gloria Estefan, Tim Allen and Glen Powell and Eli Manning.

Created by Barbara Walters, The View aired its first season in 1997. The show has always featured a multi-generational panel of women who analyze and debate topical issues relating to politics, culture and entertainment.

The series has long been embroiled in controversy and, dating back to Rosie O’Donnell’s tenure as a host, has drawn the ire of Donald Trump.

In July, after Behar claimed on the program that Trump is “jealous” of former President Barack Obama, a spokesperson for Trump blasted The View, calling Behar an “irrelevant loser” and saying the show is “the next to be pulled off air.”

ABC Sets Premiere Date for New Season of “The View,” with Sunny Hostin, for September 3

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Sunny Hostin is preparing for her daytime television return…

ABC has set the premiere date of Season 28 of The View, featuring the 55-year-old half-Puerto Rican lawyer, journalist, author and television personality as a co-host, for Tuesday, September 3 at 11:00 am ET. 10:00 am PT/CT.

Sunny HostinWhoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin will return alongside Hostin to debate the “Hot Topics” of the day.

ABC released a preview for the new season and teased the “big move” they announced earlier this month, as the show will have a studio in downtown Manhattan.

“The View’s on the move into a new big season on ABC,” says a promo for the show’s new season. “And get this, moving into a fabulous new home and studio too.”

Goldberg appears and says, “Y’all know we’re moving, right?”

The co-hosts start appearing with moving boxes, and Hostin says, “We’re moving downtown to the hottest new studio to match our hot topics.”

Navarro appears in the preview carrying a box with her dog Cha-Cha inside.

In full Behar mode, the longtime co-host says she will not be carrying the boxes in the teaser, adding, “Let Alyssa do it.”

Griffin shows up carrying two stacked boxes and says, “Sure! I’m used to heavy lifting; I’m a Republican on The View.”

Ana Navarro Returning as Co-Host for Upcoming 27th Season of ABC’s “The View”

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Ana Navarro isn’t changing her View…

The View will begin its 27th season next month with all of last season’s co-hosts returning, including the 51-year-old Nicaraguan-American political strategist, commentator and television personality.

Ana Navarro, The ViewNavarro became a contributor on the ABC daytime talk show from July 2013 to August 2018. She joined the series as a weekly guest co-host on November 2, 2018, and was named a permanent co-host of The View on August 4, 2022.

She received Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host in 2020 and 2022.

Navarro will be joined moderator Whoopi Goldberg and fellow co-hosts Joy Behar, Afro-Latina lawyer Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin.

The status quo contrasts to last season, when Navarro and Griffin joined the show as regular co-hosts, after the departure of Meghan McCain in 2021. Past seasons also have seen a number of changes to the regular lineup.

The show, which has ranked top among daytime talk shows, debuted in 1997, and has become a fixture on the circuit for entertainers, politicians and authors, and is expected to focus on the 2024 presidential race in the coming season and the next. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have made multiple appearances on the show, but each before they took office.

Navarro previously worked as a Republican political strategist before joining the regular cast of the show. She has been an outspoken critic of Trump.

ABC’s “The View” Officially Names Ana Navarro a Permanent Co-Host

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Ana Navarro is making things permanent…

The 50-year-old Nicaraguan political strategist and commentator has been named as a permanent co-host on the ABC’s daytime talk show The View, alongside fellow new co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin.

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Navarro, who has been a contributor to the show since 2015 and a guest co-host since 2018, will now become a permanent co-host. Navarro will continue to commute from Coral Gables, FL.

Farah Griffin will fill the conservative seat on the Hot Topics table.

With the additions, The View panel will now consist of six seats.

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg called the announcement of Navarro as a co-host “long overdue.”

Navarro called it a “huge, enormous” privilege to be “part of a 25 year institution,” and “whether people like it or not, whether some people acknowledge it or not, it is the relevance and the importance and the platform that The View represents.”

She talked of emigrating from Nicaragua as a political refugee when she was 8 years old, and said that when someone with that background “gets the opportunity and the chance to have a platform, you grab it with both hands and you run with it.”

Executive producer Brian Teta told ABC News that “we promised to take a little time to fill the seat and we have found the right match and a welcome addition to the show with Alyssa. She is willing to share her unique political experience and brings a strong conservative perspective while holding her own in tough debates with her co-hosts and guests on both sides of the aisle.”

Navarro, Teta said, “is a strong independent thinker with savvy insight, not to mention that she is whip-smart and fiercely funny. We are very happy to officially welcome her as a co-host.”