{"id":520834,"date":"2026-03-05T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520834\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:36:09","slug":"the-views-elisabeth-hasselbeck-explains-why-shell-never-return-to-survivor-solid-no-every-single-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520834\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe View\u201d’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck explains why she’ll never return to \u201cSurvivor\u201d: ‘Solid no, every single time’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Controversial conservative personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck<\/a> would rather debate Hot Topics every day with the ladies of The View<\/a> than skin another pig in the Australian outback on Survivor<\/a>, thank you very much!<\/p>\n

The Survivor and View alum, who rejoined the latter program earlier this week<\/a> as a five-day guest cohost, has revealed why she’ll never return to the reality TV competition that made her famous, 25 years after she placed fourth on Survivor season 2 in 2001.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with The View’s companion podcast, Behind the Table (below), Hasselbeck fielded a question from producer Brian Teta about whether she’s been asked to return to Survivor.<\/p>\n

\"Elisabeth<\/p>\n

Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg on the former’s ‘View’ return day
Credit: ABC<\/p>\n

“They have,” Hasselbeck confirmed, before explaining that she’ll never go back to the show. “Solid no. Solid no, every single time.”<\/p>\n

Teta pressed her on if they asked her to be part of the current Survivor 50 season, and the 48-year-old Republican paused before she answered: “I think, maybe, there was an indirect ask. I think I’d trained them to know [I’d say no].”<\/p>\n

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She then explained her reasoning, telling Teta, “I don’t think I could leave the kids. I barely want to miss a [sports] game today that I know is going on.”<\/p>\n

Teta inquired if she’d want to “skin a pig again” on the reality show, and Hasselbeck laughed as she doubled down: “No, I can not!”<\/p>\n

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Survivor for comment.<\/p>\n

Hasselbeck, who was a permanent View cohost from 2003-13, also remembered flying to Australia to film Survivor season 2 \u2014 and told Teta that her flight marked a key moment for her ahead of competing on the show.<\/p>\n

“I literally went in with two skills. I had nothing. I didn’t camp, I didn’t know anything,” she said of her life as a shoe designer before Survivor. On the aircraft, she “took out my shoelaces and practiced tying knots. I had a book! I learned how to fish from a book and tie knots, which was our structural support [at camp].”<\/p>\n

While she won’t again do battle with nature’s elements on Survivor, Hasselbeck has shaken the Hot Topics table this week on The View: she sparred with Sunny Hostin over voting for Donald Trump<\/a>, said “all lives matter,” and compared protective COVID pandemic masks<\/a> to ICE agents wearing masks to shield their identities during immigration raids.<\/p>\n

Hasselbeck has also been critical of The View in recent years, particularly in January 2025, when she slammed both Joy Behar and the show as “sinking”<\/a> entities after Behar criticized Carrie Underwood for performing at Trump’s second inauguration.<\/p>\n

Listen to Hasselbeck reflect on Survivor in the Behind the Table podcast above.<\/p>\n

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