Kathie Lee Gifford thinks “The View” is a lot meaner now than it used to be.
The TV show personality, 72, appeared on Monday’s episode of the “Tomi Lahren Is Fearless” podcastand called out “The View” for being more polarizing and “vicious” than it was years ago.
Gifford brought up the daytime talk show when host Tomi Lahren asked Gifford if she feels the public is more divided now.
“There’s just more of us — and we’re meaner now,” she said. “People at least would pretend to have some manners. Now, there’s a viciousness.”
“I mean, I used to be able to go on ‘The View’ and talk to Joy [Behar] and Whoopi [Goldberg] and a lot of the other people there — Debbie Matenopoulos and I are still good pals — and never had a problem, you know, with anybody because they weren’t trying to … I don’t proselytize everything.”
“I share my faith, but I don’t say, ‘You’re going to go to hell if you don’t.’ I don’t do that, you know?” she continued. “I want people to have a little bit more heaven in their life than hell.”
When Lahren asked her if she thought it would be the same now if she were to go on “The View” today, Griffin again brought up “the viciousness” and said it was “sad” the way programming has changed.
“I mean, everybody seems like they’re just miserable people now,” Gifford said. “I may make people miserable just talking the way we’re talking, but nobody will ever confuse me with a miserable person, right?”
“I have joy personified,” she added.
Current hosts of “The View” include Goldberg, Behar, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
“The View” has made headlines over the years for heated on-air spats as well as behind-the-scenes drama between co-hosts.
Former co-host Meghan McCain previously shared she quit the show after a brutal comment from Behar when she came back from maternity leave in January 2021.
“I finally went back to the show, and the day I went back to the show, Joy Behar said on air, ‘Nobody missed you, we didn’t miss you, you shouldn’t have come back,’” McCain recalled on “The Commentary Magazine Podcast” in August 2022.
“I didn’t feel supported when I had my baby, and I didn’t feel supported coming back, and that was ultimately it,” she added. “That was why I left!”
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