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Kathie Lee Gifford Blasts ‘The View’: ‘They’re Just Miserable People Now’
Daytime TV has taken a turn for the worse— at least according to Kathie Lee Gifford, who says the once-friendly atmosphere on The View has become far more combative in recent years.
The former host of Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee, made the comments during an appearance on the Tomi Lahren Is Fearless podcast on Monday March 9, and reflected on how television has grown increasingly divisive over the years.
The 72-year-old said: “There’s just more of us — and we’re meaner now. People at least would pretend to have some manners. Now, there’s a viciousness.”
“I mean, I used to be able to go on The View and talk to Joy [Behar] and Whoopi [Goldberg] and a lot of the other people there — Debbie Matenopoulos and I are still good pals — and never had a problem, you know, with anybody because they weren’t trying to … I don’t proselytize everything,” she continued. “I share my faith, but I don’t say, ‘You’re going to go to hell if you don’t.’ I don’t do that, you know? I want people to have a little bit more heaven in their life than hell.”
Griffin brought up “the viciousness” of the show again later in the podcast conversation and insisted it was “sad” the way programming has changed.
She added: “I mean, everybody seems like they’re just miserable people now. I may make people miserable just talking the way we’re talking, but nobody will ever confuse me with a miserable person, right? I have joy personified.”
The View is currently cohosted by stars including Goldberg, Behar, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
