The “View” hosts were unusually quiet on the topic of their network yanking “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from the airwaves. But we’re told they weren’t ordered to steer clear of the stunning news.
Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sarah Haines, Joy Behar, and Alyssa Farrah Griffin said nothing about the biggest TV story of week during their live Thursday broadcast.
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But while both are ABC shows, an insider told us the ladies “were not silenced.”
“They were not told not to discuss it,” the source said.
The insider suggested that the ladies may have been waiting for Kimmel to speak out, as they did when CBS pulled the plug on Stephen Colbert and the “Late Show” franchise in July. “It’s an ongoing story and hot topics are discussed daily,” they said.
Friday’s episode of “The View” was filmed on Thursday afternoon, but it’s unclear if they tackled the topic of Kimmel.
Meanwhile, ABC insiders are incensed that the network didn’t protect Kimmel by editing his monologue, in which he said of Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer, Tyler Robinson, “The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
Kimmel has been a searing critiic of the president, and the remark was used to pressure Disney, which owns ABC, to shelve his show.
“ABC is stupid,” one network source fumed to the New York Post. “They should have edited Kimmel. They know [President Donald] Trump is after him. Their standards department should have flagged it. They should have known better.”
