Joy Behar temporarily steps back from 'The View,' as she takes her play to London

Joy Behar is trading her accustomed spot astatine “The View’s” roundtable for the spotlight successful 1 of London’s West End theaters.

The comedian, who is 1 of the speech show’s longest-running hosts, is taking a impermanent permission from the daytime programme to instrumentality her play, “My First Ex-Husband,” overseas for the archetypal time. The 83-year-old TV property announced her interruption connected Tuesday, connected the podcast, “Behind the Table,” a companion programme of “The View.”

“I alert to Paris this week, and past I spell instrumentality the Chunnel to London aft a week, and I’ll beryllium successful London a 2nd week doing my play, ‘My First Ex-Husband,’ astatine the Boulevard Theatre successful the West End,” Behar said connected the podcast.

Behar confirmed she has already pre-taped respective installments of “The Weekend View,” up of her absence. She volition miss the adjacent 2 weeks of tapings. Her past quality connected the weekday variation of the amusement is Thursday.

In Behar’s absence, respective “View” regulars volition measurement in. Brian Teta, the show’s producer, said connected the podcast that Sheryl Underwood, Kara Swisher and Ana Navarro volition marque appearances successful the coming weeks. Whoopi Goldberg, different 1 of the speech show’s staple personalities, volition besides beryllium coming successful connected Fridays, which is her accustomed time off.

“I don’t deliberation she knows yet, but I’ll fto her cognize that she’s going to beryllium here,” Teta joked of Goldberg’s caller responsibility.

Behar’s play, “My First Ex-Husband,” archetypal debuted off-Broadway successful New York successful 2025. The comedian wrote the amusement implicit the span of 12 years. The communicative follows a rotating formed who archer chaotic stories astir past relationships. The play is acceptable to debut successful the coming weeks, according to Behar. She and Jackie Hoffman volition beryllium 2 American narrators for the show, portion 2 British actresses execute the scenes.