Abby Huntsman, who co-hosted The View from 2018 to 2020, is returning to guest host ABC’s daytime talk show years after she claimed the show had a “toxic environment.”
From March 23 until March 27, the former Fox News personality will join her former co-stars and serve as the conservative voice on the panel while Alyssa Farah Griffin is still away on maternity leave.
The 39-year-old journalist will join the growing slate of conservative commentators who have filled in for Griffin in recent weeks, including Savannah Chrisley, Sara Eisen and Elisabeth Hasselback.
When she left The View in 2020, Huntsman initially said she was stepping down from The View in January 2020 to become a senior adviser for her father’s gubernatorial campaign, but later claimed the real reason for her departure was that the show’s workplace environment was “rewarding people for bad behavior.”
She claimed that The View’s executives created an environment that “was all about money and the tabloids,” she said on her podcast I Wish Somebody Told Me in 2021.
“You would see people act in ways that were not okay, that was very much part of the toxic environment of The View, and here we were going on the air criticizing others for toxic culture,” Huntsman said.
Additionally, her feud with former co-star and friend McCain was highly publicized at the time the show aired.
She said in 2021 that she did not regret leaving The View, telling People at the time: “I don’t talk much about that time, and I won’t, but the decision that I made was probably the best decision I could have made for my life, for my mental health, for my happiness, for my family.”
Guest stars who will be featured on Huntsman’s week as a co-host on the talk show include Senator Cory Booker, the American Idol judges, comedian Chelsea Handler, Paradise stars Thomas Doherty and Julianne Nicholson, and actor Amanda Peet.
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Huntsman, the daughter of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr., got her start as a TV personality while working on shows like MSNBC and NBC News. She then worked as a reporter for Fox News Channel from 2015 to 2018.
She joined The View in September 2018, appearing alongside co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Meghan McCain. The five-person panel was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for hosting in 2019.
After her move out of the TV spotlight, Huntsman decided to focus on her podcast and her family. She shares three children with her husband, Jeffrey Livingston.
