Everything about the show has “changed,” Kathie Lee, 72, told Lahren, adding, “And it’s sad.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Kathie Lee knows this business. For those who can’t remember back that far, it’s been 26 years since she left Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee after dominating daytime talk in the 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 1997, with Kathie Lee and Regis on top of the industry, Barbara Walters debuted \u2018The View\u2019 as a show that would discuss the day’s hottest topics. But, it would be hosted only by women. The original cast was Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Debbie Matenopoulos and Barbara. Joy Behar joined soon after the debut as a full-timer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I used to do The View when Barbara was on it. Barbara actually told me, and she told Regis as well, that she planned The View around Regis and I just talking every single day about nothing, and Seinfeld told me the same thing too,” Kathie Lee told Tomi. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Kathie Lee has a clear issue with \u2018The View\u2019 and the gasbags who are divisive<\/p>\n
Times have definitely changed. The script has changed. ABC isn’t the same company. View executives have a culture war to fight and so a show that was built around “nothing” now has a clear intent and that’s to win a political war.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kathie Lee even went as far as to invoke the word “woke” and how she and Regis weren’t woke. Could their show even make it on TV these days? It feels like Kathie Lee believes it would have been impossible to do their show in the current climate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Kathie Lee Gifford makes a guest appearance on “The View” in 2000. \u00a0(Photo by David Handschuh\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
“We’re meaner. People would at least pretend to have some manners. Now there’s a viciousness,” Kathie Lee continued. “I used to be able to go on The View and talk to Joy and Whoopi. Debbie Metanopoulos and I are still good pals and never had a problem with anybody because they weren’t trying to proselytize everything.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kathie Lee believes there’s a “viciousness” with what The View and ABC are pushing. “It’s sad. Everybody seems like they’re just miserable people now,” she noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Do you remember two weeks ago when the View yappers claimed \u00a0to be shocked that Trump’s economy was humming along? The multi-millionaires on the stage acted like things were absolutely miserable while I noted how most of them live in mansions, including Whoopi who spends her off-days in Sardinia, Italy.\u00a0<\/p>\n