{"id":5252,"date":"2023-11-23T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2023-11-23T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:14:03","slug":"actress-suzanne-somers-was-applauded-by-her-fans-after-revealing-why-she-refused-an-offer-to-become-a-cohost-on-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=5252","title":{"rendered":"Actress Suzanne Somers was applauded by her fans after revealing why she refused an offer to become a cohost on \u201cThe View.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne Somers, who rose to fame starring in the 1970s sitcom\u00a0<em>Three\u2019s Company<\/em>, opened up about an offer she got to cohost<em>\u00a0The View<\/em>. \u201cI was originally asked to be on the original \u2018View\u2019 with Barbara Walters and whoever else, and I turned it down,\u201d Somers said while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/1A85eZgRWwW1tQkWl7eNas\">appearing<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<em>Behind the Velvet Rope<\/em>\u00a0with David Yontef podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd everyone said, \u2018Why would you turn that down? It is a national show,\u2019\u201d she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/suzanne-somers-shares-why-she-turned-down-co-hosting-the-view-204344\">continued<\/a>. \u201cI said, \u2018First of all, I have to live in New York. I don\u2019t really wanna live in New York. I like the weather down here, and I like the vibe down here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CkB9BgaSnyo\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=640&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Ftaphaps.com&amp;rp=%2Fsuzanne-somers-co-host-the-view-23d%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A2459.5999999996275%7D\" height=\"1065\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Somers was born and raised in California and continues to live there with her husband Alan Hamel, but that\u2019s not the only reason she turned down this gig. \u201cBut secondly, I don\u2019t do well vying for time,\u201d she explained. \u201cAnd there, you gotta interrupt and butt in and butt out. It\u2019s just not my personality.\u201d Somers concluded by saying that she \u201cwalked away from that\u201d and has \u201cnever looked back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many on social media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top\/?q=Suzanne%20Somers%20Reveals%20Why%20She%20Refused%20Offer%20To%20Become%20Co-Host%20On%20%E2%80%98The%20View%E2%80%99\">applauded<\/a>\u00a0Somers\u2019s decision. \u201cShe has class and a brain. Neither are allowed on that show,\u201d posted one supporter. \u201cSmart lady, who would sign up for that much hate in one room,\u201d said another fan. \u201cGood for you Susan, the View is Toxic,\u201d posted another supporter. \u201cNo sensible person should lower themselves to join that vile circus,\u201d offered one fan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-1\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbfvfFoJ29c\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=640&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Ftaphaps.com&amp;rp=%2Fsuzanne-somers-co-host-the-view-23d%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A2461.800000000745%7D\" height=\"1166\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One person who would definitely say that Suzanne Somers made the right choice in refusing\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u00a0is former cohost Meghan McCain, who has spoken out to slam the program. She spent four years being the token conservative cohost on\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u00a0from 2017 until she left in 2021, and she has no interest in ever going back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing on God\u2019s green earth that could convince me to ever walk on to that set again,\u201d McCain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11999211\/MEGHAN-MCCAIN-Rosie-ODonnell-dont-agree-wed-never-toxic-View.html\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in an article for the\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>. McCain went on to claim that she was frequently \u201cpushed off topics that I thought were newsworthy\u00a0by show producers.\u201d One example of this was the scandal that Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam faced in which old yearbook photos of him wearing blackface resurfaced.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Suzanne Somers Was Almost on The Original View w\/ Barbara Walters!!! - EXCLUSIVE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8oBESOWVBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"360\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was a subject that millions of Americans debated around watercoolers at the office and picnic tables at backyard barbeques. But we weren\u2019t allowed to talk about it because of Whoopi and Joy Behar,\u201d Meghan McCain wrote about the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround the same time as the revelation about Northam, an old picture emerged showing Behar wearing makeup to darken her skin for a Halloween costume in the 1970s,\u201d McCain added. \u201cBehar even boasted about the image in a resurfaced 2016 segment, saying she dressed up as a \u2018beautiful African woman.\u2019\u201d Goldberg also has a blackface scandal in her past, as she was photographed with her ex-Ted Danson in blackface at a 1993 Friars Club roast.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEvverymann\/status\/1192550180727357440?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way to survive on that show is to be vanilla pudding,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/mccain-judge-jeanine-pirro-23d\/\">Meghan McCain<\/a>\u00a0concluded. \u201cSay nothing controversial with the elites, bow down, and don\u2019t actually do the job you were hired to do, which is voicing your authentic opinions.\u201d Co-hosting\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u00a0seems like nothing short of a nightmare, so one can\u2019t help but think Somers dodged a major bullet.<\/p>\n<p><em>The View<\/em>\u00a0premiered on ABC in 1997. Although there have been a number of cohosts since the original panel premiered, one thing that endures with the panel of ladies over the years is controversy.\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u00a0started out as a TV show where women debate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/michelle-obama-weekend-outfit-23d\/\">differing political views<\/a>, and it has been chided for straying too far to the left in recent years. Either you love the show or hate it, but it appears as if ABC is determined to keep it on the air regardless of the show\u2019s numerous scandals and pitfalls.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47509\" src=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-20-at-9.55.23-PM-640x50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"50\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne Somers, who rose to fame starring in the 1970s sitcom\u00a0Three\u2019s Company, opened up about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":46,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}