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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.”

Andrea Navedo to Star in Joy Behar’s Off-Broadway Play “My First Ex-Husband”

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Andrea Navedo is preparing for an Off-Broadway run…

The 55-year-old Puerto Rican actress and former Jane the Virgin star will take part in The View co-host Joy Behar‘s upcoming Off Broadway comedic play My First Ex-Husband.

Andrea NavedoThe play, directed by Randal Myler at the newly renovated MMAC Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, will feature a rotating line-up of performers, with the cast of four changing each month.

A Behar-led cast of Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh and Adrienne C. Moore will be first up, running from January 29 to February 23.

From February 26 to March 23, the second cast will feature comedienne Judy Gold, Emmy-winner Susan Lucci, Cathy Moriarty and Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins.

From March 26 to April 20, the third cast will be Veanne Cox; Gina Gershon, who will only be performing April 2-20; Emmy-nominee Jackie Hoffman and Navedo.

The official synopsis: “If half of all marriages end in divorce, then in My First Ex-Husband, women live to laugh about it….In the world of the play, you’ll meet women married to the mob, to their jobs, to their faith, to money and ultimately to the wrong man. Their stories are your stories…only funnier.”

The show is produced by Rose Caiola and Cyrena Esposito with Associate Producers Mark Rubinsky and Tony Castrigno.

 

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.

Estefan to Replace Joy Behar on “The View”?

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Could ABC’s long-running daytime talk show The View finally be ready to hire a Latina to sit at the co-host table?

ABC executives are looking to replace Joy Behar, who recently announced she’s leaving the show at the end of the season, with a Latina, according to The Daily Mail UK.

Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan, who is currently working on a Broadway show about her life, is allegedly one of the top contenders. The 55-year-old Cuban-born Latin music icon has appeared as a guest co-host in the past.

But she’s not the only Latina singer apparently under consideration…

Cuban Christian singer Jaci Velasquez, a devout Christian, is said to be in the running.

The website reports that ABC executives want to spice things up and think a feisty conservative Latina with views similar to host Elisabeth Hasselbeck would be an appropriate candidate to star alongside the show’s creator Barbara Walters.

Meantime, staunch Republican Rachel Campos-Duffy, who is married to Sean Duffy, a Republican Congressman in Wisconsin whom she met while filming the MTV hit reality series The Real World: San Francisco, could finally get a spot on the show.

She’s previously tried out twice for The View. She’s currently a stay-at-home and a devoted Catholic.