Ahead of Variety’s Ramin Setoodeh’s explosive new book detailing what goes on backstage at ‘The View’, a leaked audio from the show’s 2006 episode has given quite a shock to the show’s fans.
Dating back to the show’s episode on Aug 2 2006, featuring the show’s former conservative cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck passionately protesting against the over-the-counter availability of morning-after pills, over-talking her fellow hosts, who apparently happened to have a different opinion than hers, in the process.
What aired on the show at that point features Barbara Walters cutting Hasselbeck in-between and asking her to ‘calm down’ and listen to other people for a more balanced discussion on the subject. This obviously does not go down well with Hasselbeck who starts tearing her instruction cards before Walter calls for a commercial break.
What went backstage immediately after the altercation has now been made public through a leaked/resurfaced audio, uploaded by Variety.
An expletive filled audio showcases Hasselbeck venturing out of the studio and calling out Walters for ‘reprimanding her on Live TV.’
Threatening to quit the show mid-air, it isn’t until the show’s producers intervene and ask her to take her position back on the panel, that Hasselbeck approaches the studio – merely seconds before the show going on-air after the break.
The backstage tension that mounted in the whole process will shock you!
Check it out below:
If you think this was juicy, the rest of the book from Setoodeh has some exceptional tea to keep you shocked for days!