‘No current plans’ for Rosie O’Donnell to return as guest on “The View” season 30, source says
‘No current plans’ for Rosie O’Donnell to return as guest on “The View” season 30, source says
Joey NolfiMon, August 3, 2026 at 7:51 PM UTC
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Rosie O’Donnell and Barbara Walters on ‘The View’Credit: Steve Fenn/ABCKey Points -
There are “no current plans” for Rosie O’Donnell to return to The View for season 30, Entertainment Weekly has learned.
O’Donnell previously said on a podcast that she “will” return to the show alongside “all” past cohosts.
“I will go on the 30th anniversary next [season],” O’Donnell said during the interview.
After Rosie O’Donnell said that she “will go on the 30th anniversary” season of The View as a guest in the upcoming months, Entertainment Weekly has learned there are “no current plans” for her return to the Hot Topics table.
Speaking to the Tangle podcast in an interview published over the weekend, O’Donnell said that she’ll participate in season 30 “in whatever way they want me,” but clarified that it’s “just as a guest” for now.
O’Donnell also claimed that The View is “bringing back all the hosts, I think, for the 30th season” to commemorate three decades of the talk show that first launched in 1997 as the product of late journalist Barbara Walters’ vision for a daytime show made for women, by women.
Now, EW has learned that formal invitations have not gone out to View personalities ahead of season 30, which will debut at an unspecified date later this year.
Whoopi Goldberg, Nicolle Wallace, Rosie Perez, and Rosie O’Donnell on ‘The View’Credit: Lou Rocco/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
The show typically returns from its summer hiatus at the top of September, though ABC hasn’t announced an exact season 30 premiere date just yet.
EW has reached out to representatives for O’Donnell and The View for comment.
O’Donnell said elsewhere on the podcast that she respects the show and has always appreciated what it symbolized for women and politics in America.
However, she said, “Many, many people got the short end of the stick there” in terms of former cohosts.
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“It was, you know, it was a factory where people were being churned in and out and their tenuous security, nobody got to be calm,” she admitted, specifically referencing the show when it was under the direction of late producer Bill Geddie, who died in 2023. “It also was a show at the time that was run by a man. A show created by a woman, for women, about women, and the man was deciding what we should talk about. And that didn’t sit right with me, you know.”
During a 2023 appearance on the Now What? With Brooke Shields podcast, she also criticized the program following her initial departure in 2007, following a high-profile on-air clash with Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
“[Elisabeth] kind of threw me under the bus and I was like, ‘Are you f---ing kidding me?’ I finished the show, got my coat, walked out, and said I’m not going back, and I didn’t, until a few years later when they asked me to come back and Whoopi [Goldberg] was on it and we clashed in ways that I was shocked by,” O’Donnell told Shields, who asked O’Donnell if she regretted her two-time stint on The View.
Rosie ODonnell Barbara Walters Joy Behar, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on ‘The View’Credit: ABC
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O’Donnell, who again left the show in 2015 after returning to the table the year prior, replied: “I know this, it’s not the best use of my talent to get in a show where I have to argue and defend basic principles of humanity and kindness. It was not something I’d ever do again.”
As she prepares to temporarily fill in at the Jimmy Kimmel Live desk later this month, the 64-year-old comedian has also spoken at length about eyeing a potential permanent return to the daytime format, after she won several Emmys as the host of the popular Rosie O’Donnell Show.
“It would look a lot like my old show, to tell you the truth. I think America wants nostalgia. I think what they don’t want is celebrity culture. I think celebrity culture is dead in America,” O’Donnell told the Tangle.
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