{"id":145561,"date":"2025-09-10T02:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:57:10","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-says-she-cant-afford-to-retire-from-the-view-because-she-didnt-marry-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145561\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg Says She Can\u2019t Afford to Retire From \u2018The View\u2019 Because She Didn\u2019t \u2018Marry Well\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Whoopi Goldberg does not plan on leaving her post at \u201cThe View\u201d anytime soon \u2014 she\u2019s still got bills to pay, after all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The longtime co-host joined the daytime talk show in 2007 and told \u201cEntertainment Tonight\u201d that after 18 seasons, she \u201ccan\u2019t afford\u201d to retire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More from TheWrap<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIf you don\u2019t marry well, you got to keep working,\u201d she said in an interview published Tuesday. Goldberg has been married three times but has since been outspoken about why she prefers being single.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When the reporter suggested that Goldberg may be one of the established women in Hollywood who could afford to leave it behind, the \u201cSister Act\u201d star quipped \u201cNo, not by now. Not yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI gotta keep paying those bills baby,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/join-pro\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=site&amp;utm_campaign=articlePROpromo&amp;utm_id=070825\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"247\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9c7d0b3beed6f4c9b7c5e1d24c6e24d4.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Joy Behar, who joined the talk show 10 years before Goldberg in 1997, also does not feel ready to retire. The 83-year-old co-host told \u201cEntertainment Tonight\u201d that she still wants to create.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cCreative people don\u2019t retire, they don\u2019t resign, they just keep going,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the exchange in the video below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe View\u201d returned for Season 29 on Monday. Goldberg, Behar, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines and Ana Navarro all returned for the new season. The series has remained the most-watched daytime talk show for five consecutive seasons, as their panel discusses politics, pop culture and their everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On their first segment of \u201cHot Topics\u201d following their summer break, the six co-hosts berated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s contentious congressional hearing over his anti-vaccine policies. The segment on the secretary of Health and Human Services lasted 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/whoopi-goldberg-cant-afford-the-view-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Whoopi Goldberg Says She Can\u2019t Afford to Retire From \u2018The View\u2019 Because She Didn\u2019t \u2018Marry Well\u2019 | Video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Whoopi Goldberg Says She Can\u2019t Afford to Retire From \u2018The View\u2019 Because She Didn\u2019t \u2018Marry Well\u2019 | Video<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg does not plan on leaving her post at \u201cThe View\u201d anytime soon \u2014 she\u2019s still got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[18153,88,16214,28593,92,14300],"class_list":{"0":"post-145561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-billy-joel","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-entertainment-tonight","11":"tag-joy-behar","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-whoopi-goldberg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}