Why Joy Behar is absent from ‘The View’

Joy Behar is stepping distant from nan “Hot Topics” array — temporarily, of course.

Though nan comedian typically doesn’t look connected Monday episodes of “The View,” nan June 1 airing marked nan opening of her two-week absence from nan regular talk show.

“There’s been a batch of media attraction connected maine lately because I’m taking disconnected nan adjacent 2 weeks,” Behar said connected nan May 29 episode. “They’re calling it a hiatus. It’s not a hiatus.”

“I’m working,” she explained. “I person a planned travel overseas adjacent week to activity connected my play, ‘My First Ex-Husband,’ successful London.”

This echoed what Behar had antecedently shared connected nan May 26 section of nan “Behind nan Table” podcast erstwhile she told , “I alert to Paris this week, and past I spell return nan passageway to London aft a week,” she told “The View” executive shaper Brian Teta.

The co-host shared that during her week successful London she’d beryllium putting connected her play, “My First Ex-Husband,” connected nan West End, noting Jackie Hoffman and 2 British actors would beryllium joining her successful nan cast.

The show, which comically tackles themes for illustration matrimony and divorce, antecedently debuted Off-Broadway successful New York successful February 2025.

Behar said her week successful nan City of Love will beryllium spent connected playwriting “in various cafes” and checking retired immoderate creation exhibits, including 1 featuring Matisse.

“Doesn’t that sound for illustration fun,” nan TV personality, 83, gushed of nan sojourn.

Teta past explained that “various folks” would beryllium filling successful for nan talk show icon during her two-week hiatus, including Sheryl Underwood, caller disconnected nan Kevin Hart roast special, and Kara Swisher, whom he said “is very funny and smart.”

“Whoopi is going to beryllium present connected Fridays,” Teta quipped, adding, “I don’t deliberation she knows that. I’ll fto her know.”

Behar, who has been portion of “The View” since nan show began successful 1997 prevention for 2 seasons, antecedently alarmed fans pinch an unplanned two-episode absence from nan show successful November 2025.

Goldberg explained astatine nan clip that Behar had “hurt her foot.”