Joy Behar suffered an unexpected drop during the opening credits of The view on Thursday morning.
The 79-year-old co-host could be seen talking and laughing with her colleague Sarah Haynes as the audience applauded the start of the daily talk show, but as she was about to sit in one of the show’s famous high chairs, she fell and landed on her side.
Her co-hosts rushed to her aid, and Haynes, 44, soon pulled her back as she Upi GoldbergThe 66-year-old could be heard saying, “Just wait.”
A stage attendant then helped Behar sit in his place to loud applause as her co-hosts tried to defend Behar’s sudden fall.
“These chairs are moving – you’re touching them and you’re on the ground,” Goldberg told the audience, and Sunny Hostin added: “It happened to all of us at one time or another.”
But Behar quickly intervened, saying that in her 25 years on the show, “this has never happened to me.
“Who should I judge?” she joked as she laughed at the experience.
Joy Behar, 79, fell to one side as he sat in his chair on The View’s set on Thursday morning after talking to co-host Sarah Haynes.
Behar was quickly helped to her feet by co-host Sarah Haynes
Her co-leaders rushed to her aid, and Haynes, 44, soon pulled her back.
A stage worker helped her to her seat after falling to loud applause
One viewer jokes that the fall of comedian Behar is the first laugh she has caused in decades.
Another wondered if regular criticism of the star had irritated her
A third viewer fears that Behar’s advancement put her at risk of serious injury
But she still seemed shaken by the time the four co-hosts finally took their seats on Thursday morning, saying, “I’m flying.”
“We can’t even say, ‘Oh, you can’t have another glass of wine,’ it takes a glass of wine to get on the chairs,” Upi joked as he sat down before asking Behar if he was okay. to which Behar replied, “I missed the step, as usual.”
“Well, this is our show today,” Upi joked. ‘Thank you so much.’
Viewers were quick to share their thoughts on the incident on Twitter, with one saying: “She’s fine, but The View presenter Joy Behar fell on stage.
“The good news is that this was her first laugh in 20 years.”
Another, referring to a past controversy with Behar, said: “The spotted black-faced user Joy Behar of #TheView suffers from a fall.” His tweet included a clip of the casual-looking Jeremy Clarkson.
Another Twitter user scolds View critics who mocked Behar’s unexpected fall
Others were more supportive. One Twitter user shared her fears about Behar, given the host’s advanced age, writing, “Girl you know your bones can’t handle these outbursts at your age.”
And another even wondered if Behar’s critics might have made her fall by writing, “Stop hating Joy Behar’s eyes, you’re making her fall on your face!”
The fall came after a series of controversies over the women’s talk show, with Behar causing outrage last week, complaining that the war in Ukraine would disrupt her Italian escape.
The long-running holiday was discussing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine when she began whining that her summer trip had failed.
Hostin began the conversation last Thursday, outlining some of the facts about the war in Eastern Europe, in which Kyiv was evacuated after Vladimir Putin began his entire invasion of Ukraine.
“It is estimated that 50,000 Ukrainians will be dead or injured and this will start a refugee crisis in Europe. We are talking about 5 million people who will be displaced, “she said. “It’s heartbreaking to hear what’s going to happen.”
Behar then sought to shift the discussion to Western Europe, in particular to her apparent plans to travel to Italy, about 1,500 miles from where Russian forces bombed a neighbor.
“And I’m afraid of what’s going to happen in Western Europe,” she said.
“You are planning a trip, you want to go there, I have wanted to go to Italy for four years and I failed to do so because of the pandemic and now this. Like what will happen there?
Social media quickly pounced on Behar’s apparent disregard for everyone else’s circumstances.
Radiant Liz Wheeler published the video, which reads: “I literally can’t believe Joy Behar said that.”
Ida Tawakoli added in: “You almost have to respect Joy Behar’s unwavering commitment to ensuring that the Boomers are the most hated generation alive.”
NY Post and Fox News columnist Carol Markovic he asked: Did Putin even stop thinking about how his invasion would affect Joy Behar’s trip to Italy?
Sports commentator @KFCBarstool accumulated: “The real horror of the global pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Joy Behar failed to travel to Italy. Thoughts and prayers for joy. We hope she survives this tragedy.
Social media denied Behar’s remarks last week as “deaf”
But Behar is not the only one to find herself in hot water for comments made on the long-running show – her co-host Upi Goldberg has been suspended following a global backlash over comments about the Holocaust.
In a January 31 broadcast, Goldberg said on the air that the Holocaust was “unrelated to race.”
She was soon forced into a two-week unpaid removal by ABC chief Kim Godwin, who said she wanted to end the “culture” in which The View presenter and her colleague Joy Behar could “talk and do whatever they want.” insiders told DailyMail.com.
Goldberg had to lose $ 192,000 due to the two-week suspension, sources told DailyMail.com.
But when she returned, she did not shy away from the controversy.
“It’s not always as beautiful as I said, and it’s not always as other people would like to hear, but it’s an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations because they’re important,” she said last month.