The View cohost Joy Behar missed her fourth consecutive episode this week.The 83-year-old typically has Mondays off, but missed Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday as well.Whoopi Goldberg provided an update on Behar’s condition on Wednesday and Thursday, Goldberg’s birthday episode.<\/p>\n
Joy Behar<\/a> has missed four consecutive episodes of The View<\/a>, with moderator Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> revealing a health update for the 83-year-old comedian on Wednesday and Thursday \u2014 the latter of which was Goldberg’s 70th birthday episode.\n<\/p>\n After Behar, who typically has Mondays off from the Hot Topics table, missed additional episodes, Goldberg informed the audience that the star was injured in an undisclosed incident.\n<\/p>\n “Joy is out today, hopefully she’ll be back tomorrow,” Goldberg told the audience on Tuesday, before the panel \u2014 which included herself, Sunny Hostin<\/a>, Sara Haines<\/a>, Ana Navarro<\/a>, and Alyssa Farah Griffin<\/a> \u2014 interviewed Sen. John Fetterman about his decision to side with Republicans in a vote to end the longest government shutdown in American history.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, after the cohosts sat at the table, Goldberg again addressed Behar’s absence.\n<\/p>\n Joy Behar for ‘The View’.<\/p>\n ABC\/JEFF LIPSKY<\/p>\n “Well, hello, hello, hello, and welcome to The View, y\u2019all!” the 69-year-old said at the top of Wednesday’s show.\n<\/p>\n She continued, “Now, Joy is out because she hurt her foot, and hopefully she\u2019ll be back here tomorrow.”<\/p>\n Goldberg made light of the cohosts’ status in the studio as well, telling the audience, “I\u2019m sitting like this because I\u2019m cold as hell. I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s so cold in this room, but every day we beg and plead, ‘Please, can we have a little heat?’ And they say, ‘No, make your own!'”<\/p>\n Thursday’s broadcast began with the stars walking out to the Hot Topics table without Behar, though Goldberg expressed that the comedian might be back soon. Hostin cut in to bring out one of Behar’s famous lasagnas, which she said Behar baked and sent in for Goldberg’s special birthday episode.\n<\/p>\n Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for The View for more information on Behar’s condition.\n<\/p>\n Behar’s feet recently played a pivotal role in shaping The View’s legacy, after Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey gave them a massage<\/a> live on the air, while Behar told Matt Rogers to “shut up” during the show after he pointed out<\/a> that he once saw her ride an airplane without shoes on.\n<\/p>\n Even without Behar at the table, The View cohosts made headlines this week \u2014 particularly for the aforementioned interview with Sen. Fetterman of Pennsylvania.\n<\/p>\n During the conversation, Hostin directly confronted the politician one day after she staunchly criticized him as one of eight Democrats who sided with GOP officials in a vote to end the six-week United States government shutdown.<\/p>\n Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg for The View.<\/p>\n Jeff Lipsky\/ABC<\/p>\n Hostin, a legal expert and former federal prosecutor, told Fetterman that “you had momentum,” given the blue wave of Democratic victories on Election Day, before asking, “Why give in now? Why bring a butter knife to a gun fight?”\n<\/p>\n After invoking the name of conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who opposed Republican and Democratic handling of the shutdown, she continued, “Are you willing to gamble that the GOP will negotiate in good faith once the government reopens, because if that gamble is wrong, half a million Pennsylvanians that you represent, their healthcare costs will skyrocket if you\u2019re wrong? And I believe you are wrong.”\n<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fetterman responded, “Well, first of all, Marjorie Taylor Greene is quite literally the last person in America that I\u2019m going to take advice to get my leadership and values from. If Democrats are celebrating crazypants like that, that’s on them.”\n<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t need a lecture,’ Fetterman went on. “I don\u2019t need lecture from, whether it\u2019s Bernie [Sanders] or the governor in California, because they’re representing very deep blue populations and a lot of those things were part of the extreme.”<\/p>\n