A former co-host of The View is set to make her grand return after claiming the daytime talk program has a ‘toxic environment.‘
Abby Huntsman, 39, served as one of the panel’s conservative voices from 2018 to 2020. The View mentioned in a social media publish on Sunday that she’s going to return to daytime tv this week as a visitor host.
Huntsman is becoming a member of a listing of short-term co-hosts filling in for former Trump official Alyssa Farah Griffin whereas she is on maternity leave.
The media persona initially mentioned her 2020 departure was to assist her father, Jon Huntsman, in his marketing campaign for Utah governor.
However, a 12 months later, Huntsman revealed on her podcast, I Wish Somebody Told Me, along with her good friend, comedy author and media producer Lauren Leeds, that there was extra to her resolution.
She confessed that The View ‘didn’t replicate my values’ and was ‘rewarding folks for unhealthy conduct.’
Huntsman mentioned that the executives had been ‘all about cash and the tabloids…You would see folks act in ways in which weren’t okay, that was very a lot half of the poisonous surroundings of The View, and right here we had been happening the air criticizing others for poisonous tradition.’
She went on to reveal {that a} producer on the show had requested she learn an announcement on air denying experiences of a poisonous office, which she refused.
Abby Huntsman, pictured above in 2019, is set to return to The View as a short lived co-host this week, following her sensational departure in 2020
Huntsman left tv after she departed from The View. Rumors swirled on the time of a feud between her and fellow conservative co-host, Meghan McCain. She’s pictured above (second from the left) with Joy Behar, visitor Jamie Lee Curtis, Sunny Hostin and McCain in 2019
Huntsman, pictured above in a social media publish in January, was on MSNBC and Fox News earlier than her tenure on The View from 2018 to 2020
Huntsman launched a podcast in 2021 along with her good friend Lauren Leeds. The cowl of the show is pictured above
Huntsman claimed that when she mentioned she wouldn’t learn the assertion, the producer later texted her, ‘That was a mistake.’
She mirrored on her final day on set and mentioned that earlier than taping had even concluded, her sister emailed her a information article citing a supply contained in the show who claimed that producers had been planning to fireplace her earlier than she resigned.
‘When I used to be strolling out of the constructing that day, I used to be dwelling once more,’ Huntsman mentioned on her podcast.
‘I may breathe and really feel myself respiratory. I used to be current and I hadn’t been current for the just about two years I used to be there.’
Prior to her departure, experiences surfaced of stress between Huntsman and her fellow conservative panelist, Meghan McCain.
A CNN Business article on the time cited a number of sources who described a poisonous work surroundings on set and a ‘soured relationship’ between the 2 conservative ladies.
McCain and Huntsman had a longtime friendship, having each come from well-known Republican households.
However, sources mentioned that their relationship was frayed when Huntsman started discussing her kids on-air following McCain’s miscarriage.
Huntsman instructed her good friend Lauren Leeds, pictured above, on her podcast that the surroundings on The View was ‘poisonous’
Reports surfaced earlier than Huntsman’s departure that she had a feud with longtime good friend Meghan McCain. The two are pictured above on The View in 2019
A slew of panelists, together with Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Savannah Chrisley, are additionally filling in for Alyssa Farah Griffin
‘Abby was sick of being berated by Meghan for perceived slights,’ one of the sources instructed CNN. ‘She in the end determined she did not want this job and it wasn’t value it.’
An ABC spokesperson denied the report on the time, telling CNN in an announcement: ‘There has at all times been a fascination with the behind-the-scenes on the show because the show started, however they do a tricky job by going on the market day-after-day to share their opinions and beliefs on dwell TV.’
Huntsman struck a special tone in her goodbye message, telling viewers how troublesome it was to depart The View and calling it the ‘most iconic show on tv’ with the ‘smartest ladies.’
Prior to her tenure on the show, Huntsman was a number on MSNBC and Fox News. During her time as a panelist, Huntsman hosted alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Meghan McCain.
Farah Griffin took over McCain’s seat on the show in 2022, following a number of public clashes between McCain and the opposite panelists.
Other conservative commentators filling in for Farah Griffin embody actuality star Savannah Chrisley and former host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who sat on the panel from 2003 to 2013.
Hasslebeck has additionally provided harsh phrases for The View’s present lineup, telling Fox News in 2025 that the show ‘refused to put anybody there who has a lick of sense on most days.’
