With select exceptions, The View is known for occasionally bringing past co-hosts back, sometimes for permanent returns (like Sara Haines in 2020), and sometimes for tumultuous one-offs (like any time Elisabeth Hasselbeck pops back on). That idea is being expanded exponentially for the talk show’s milestone 30th season, which won’t be hitting the 2026 TV schedule, but will take place n 2027. And it sounds like former moderator Rosie O’Donnell is completely game to rejoin the table.
Along with Haines, O’Donnell is one of the three ladies who co-hosted across two different time spans with at least a one-season gap in between. She took over as moderator for Season 10 after Star Jones and Meredith Vieira exited, and then made her own hasty exit to make way for Whoopi Goldberg as moderator. (That stint also coincided with a BTS feud with then-series director Mark Gentile, who also left after the 2006 season.) O’Donnell made her way back to the daytime series in Season 18 after creator Barbara Walters bowed out, but once again only lasted a single season.
