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Elisabeth Hasselbeck: No Post-Show Fight

November 2nd, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

The screaming, fights and tears reached new heights on the Oct. 23 episode of The View — culminating in rumors of a post-show fight between Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her liberal co-host Joy Behar. But the embattled Republican insists the women have “unconditional love for each other.”

“Everything is great off set,” Elisabeth told OK! at the Wall Street Boxing Charity Championship in NYC on Oct. 23. Denying reports that Joy verbally attacked her, Elisabeth adds, “It can get a little uncomfortable, and we’re not afraid to be that way.”

Tensions seemed to be running high lately for the ladies, especially with the election heating up in the last few weeks, but Joy echoes her co-host, telling Larry King on Oct. 26, “I’m so tired of saying we’re friends off the air, but it really is true.”

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Whoopi: No Trouble in View

October 24th, 2008

Despite heated on-air election arguments between Republican Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her more liberal co-hosts, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd and Barbara Walters, one of the ladies on ABC’s The View says the political feuding isn’t personal.

"What we want the viewers to understand.is that you can disagree with your friends, loved ones and not make it personal," Whoopi tells Extra at a signing for her new children’s book, Plum Fantastic: Sugar Plum Ballerinas. "In spite of what anybody reads or says, there are no personal digs taken at that table."

Whoopi goes on to add that she hopes viwers will "stop listening for trouble and hear what we are talking about."

Attacking someone else on-air because of their beliefs isn’t what The View is all about, Whoopi reiterates.

"If we had personal things to deal with we would talk on a one-on-one basis," she says. "Listen to us as we speak, not as other people interpret us."

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Four Against One

October 22nd, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

As election season heats up, it’s not a case of John McCain battling Barack Obama, it’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck against the ladies of The View!

Elisabeth has always been the lone Republican voice arguing against her more liberal-minded co-hosts, Joy Behar, Barbara Walters, Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg, but in recent weeks things have turned increasingly ugly.

“The set was tense,” audience member Steve Bond tells OK! of the Oct. 16 taping he attended. “Elisabeth looked pretty stressed out.”

“Barbara was saying, ‘Okay, girls, calm down,’ ” adds audience member Arlene Kryger.

Alison Davis, a New Jersey social worker who attended the same taping, concurs. “I always feel bad for Elisabeth. She’s sweet and so pretty and she can’t get a word in edgewise. It’s four to one.”

While mom-of-two Elisabeth insists she “loves her ladies,” she still remains the odd woman out.

“The only time the panel members were together was when the cameras were rolling,” audience member Marsha Kunselman, who was also at the show, tells OK!. “Elisabeth was always alone during breaks.”

But the drama is set to continue until Election Day. After Whoopi asked on the Oct. 17 show if Elisabeth was defecting to Fox News, she confirmed, “I’m not going anywhere! I love Fox, but I’m staying here. I’m not leaving The View."