The Real Reason Jenny McCarthy Left The View

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Jenny McCarthy's introduction to "The View" was met with a great deal of negative press. In fact, in July 2013, Time even published a piece titled, "Why ABC Shouldn't Have Hired Jenny McCarthy." And things only seemed to get worse from there.

In a 2019 interview with Vulture, McCarthy recalled, "I was a nervous wreck. I just let go of my own talk show in Chicago. I had signed a one-year contract with 'The View.' Now I'm dealing with all this bad publicity and I have to feed my baby." She also opened up about the relationship between co-hosts, likening it to the cutthroat competition show "Survivor." "There were allies, and there weren't many people to choose from," the former Playboy model noted, discussing the conundrum of siding with Barbara Walters or Whoopi Goldberg. It was clear that Walters and Goldberg didn't get along with McCarthy, she told Vulture. In fact, things were so incredibly tense with Walters, McCarthy claimed, that the veteran host would criticize her outfits and even accuse her of making a mess in the bathroom.

As McCarthy explained, the powers that be at "The View" tried to veer the topics on the show away from pop culture and more to politics, which didn't sit well with the star. She also claimed that "they wanted Elisabeth [Hasselbeck] back, and I wasn't Elisabeth."

In 2014, just a year after McCarthy was first hired as a co-host, she was fired from the talk show. 

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