Guess who’s back.
Candace Cameron Bure is making her return to “The View” just weeks after the actress confessed she had turned down a previous invitation to be on the talk show.
Bure, 50, is slated to appear as a guest on Friday, Nov. 13, alongside co-hosts Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines and Ana Navarro. (Whoopi Goldberg typically isn’t at the Hot Topics table on Fridays.)
It’s likely she’ll promote “Special Forces: World’s Toughest,” as she is currently participating in Season 5, or her recently released holiday film “A Second Chance Christmas,” which debuted last month on Great American Family, for which Bure is chief content officer.
During an October interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bure shared that she had been contacted to make a guest appearance on the talk show for its milestone 30th Season.
“They did reach out to me, and they offered me the week that my daughter gave birth, so I knew that was coming,” she said at the time, noting that she “didn’t want to be far away and miss anything.”
In regards to the chance she would return to the long-running series, she said she’s “definitely open to it.”
It looks like schedules lined up, as viewers will be seeing her this week.
Bure was a permanent co-host on “The View” during Seasons 19 and 20, which aired from 2015 to 2016. Her most recent appearance on the show was in 2024.
The former “Full House” star is outspoken about her conservative views, and often clashed with her liberal co-hosts during her stint on the talk show.
In fact, she previously vowed that she would never return as a permanent co-host.
Speaking to People in 2021, she called it “one of the toughest jobs” that she had ever had.
“My time at ‘The View’ was exciting, challenging, informative, emotional and stressful. It was one of the toughest jobs I’ve held, but I was incredibly grateful for the opportunity to sit at the table with such talented, smart, capable women,” the actress told the outlet at the time.
“While I’d never want a permanent seat at the table again, it always feels like family when I come back to the show as a guest,” she added.
The Hallmark star said that one of the biggest challenges for her at the time was “diving headfirst into politics” while on the show.
Bure admitted that when she was asked to join the show, it was supposed to be less focused on politics — but Donald Trump’s foray into politics and his presidency changed all of that.
“The lighter version of the show I thought I was going to work for suddenly became solely about politics. I felt like I was back in school, doing four to five hours of homework a night. It was exhausting,” she said.
“Along with that, I was traveling back and forth from Los Angeles to New York every week to be with my family on the weekends. I’m surprised I kept up with my schedule for as long as I did,” she continued.
This week’s lineup of “The View” also includes guests Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former “Reading Rainbow” host LeVar Burton and news host Rachel Maddow.
Thursday’s show will also be dedicated to co-host Goldberg’s 71st birthday celebration.
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