Last week, Meghan McCain announced she was leaving The View at the end of the month to spend more time with her family in Washington, D.C., where she’s been living during the pandemic. But it turns out, that might not actually be true.
“We have this incredible life here,” McCain said last week, “and I think, as any new mom knows, when I think about where I want Liberty to have her first steps, her first words, I just have this really wonderful life here that ultimately I didn’t want to leave.”
But according to Page Six, McCain’s departure has less to do with her not wanting to move back to New York to resume in-studio taping and more to do with her co-stars having lost all patience with her.
“Everyone was at their wits’ end,” a source says. “Even Whoopi, and she’s the chillest of them all. Whoopi is never going to advocate for anyone to get fired. She’s not about that, but she was very clear that she no longer wanted to work with Meghan.”
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— act.tv (@actdottv) July 3, 2021
Multiple sources say that Goldberg, as well as Joy Behar and part-time conservative co-host Ana Navarro, told producers that they couldn’t work with McCain any longer. She was too toxic and she was making their lives hell.
“It happened as soon as [new ABC News president] Kim [Godwin] came in,” another insider says. “It was right after Joy and Meghan’s huge [on-air] blow-up [in May] where the network called an emergency meeting. They told new management, ‘We don’t want to work with her anymore.'”
The “blow-up” the person is referring to happened on May 18 during a discussion about Rep. Matt Gaetz and his teen sex trafficking scandal.
McCain told Behar to shop telling Republicans who they should support, to which Behar replied by telling McCain that she never misses an opportunity to give her own unsolicited advice to Democrats. Things quickly descended from there, with McCain screaming incoherently at Behar until the show had to cut to an early commercial.
WILL FORMER GAETZ ASSOCIATE TURN ON HIM? After Rep. Matt Gaetz’s former ally Joel Greenberg pled guilty to sex trafficking charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, the co-hosts discuss as the congressman denies any wrongdoing. https://t.co/UX4lcdadA2 pic.twitter.com/aY9QCZxPry
— The View (@TheView) May 18, 2021
Apparently that was the straw that broke the camel’s back for McCain’s co-hosts, who begged producers to please, for the love of god, get rid of her.
“[The hosts] all came with complaints to Kim about Meghan,” another source says. “Whoopi was clear that she didn’t want to work with her either. There have been so many well-documented issues, and [Meghan] has not made a good impression on new management.”
Another source adds that the only reason McCain even lasted as long as she did was because she had ingratiated herself with the old regime at ABC. So much so that when she and co-host Sunny Hostin weren’t getting along, Hostin was taken aside and told she had to find a way to “get along with Meghan or get out.”
“Meghan hated Sunny and didn’t trust her,” an insider says. “She thought she was leaking stories about her and it was a bad situation. [ABC brass] essentially told Sunny, ‘Don’t make us have to choose between you and Meghan because we’re not going to choose you.’ And they’ve had a faux friendship ever since.”
Lucky for both of them (and all of us!), they won’t have to pretend to be friends much longer because McCain’s last day on The View is July 30.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
John
Exactly. Graham continuing with the non-LGBT related topics.
MissTerri
Uh Oh!! Looks like “folx” aren’t too Happy with Graham! Hi-LAR-ious!!!!!!!
Cam
@MissTerri
Sweetie, I’ve told you before that if you’re going to reply to your own comments under a different name, try not to do it one minute after they’re posted. It just makes it too obvious.
Then again I shouldn’t be surprised because your troll game is sad and weak.
MissTerri
Poor Senile Old Cam!!!!!
Heywood Jablowme
Yes – Cam waited 5 hours to reply to his sock puppet Miss Terri, thereby fooling everyone!
Hdtex
Terri has puss-oozing herpes sores. Get it fixed.
Cam
@MissTerri
You certainly jump in quickly to defend your other Troll screenames. lol
Heywood Jablowme
It’s certainly suspicious that the only commenter who whines a lot about the supposed trolls, has apparently written the Official Rule Book of Trolling! Cam knows every detail about how to troll properly, and when to do it, and how long to wait to do it, etc. etc. Gee, how did Cam acquire such obscure and arcane knowledge?
Cam
@Heywood Jablowme
I see this is the screename that the troll account has designated to go around and try it’s old “You called me a troll, now YOU”RE a troll!” gambit.
Sweetie, you keep popping on to defend your other screename’s comments. You’re troll game is really sad and weak. lol
Invader7
NEVER watched that messy,sloppy shit hole show. Megan is a shrew and a intellectually impaired fake !!
Bengali
Intellectually impaired yet you don’t know when to use “a” vs. “an”. HILARIOUS.
MissTerri
The period goes inside the Quotation Mark, dearie! Hi-LAR-ious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AxelDC
How could anyone believe McCain left such a cushy job voluntarily? She craves the limelight and thinks the world needs her ignorant opinions.
just1normalguy
Meghan since day one has been my dad girl. Riding on his coat tails. She does not have an open mind and see’s things her way only. She is prolife yet prolife against abortions. Seems to me that the abortions would assure no abortions needed if used by all. But again too into her way and wants neither as if her business is to tell others what to do with their body. No one asked for her opinion on prolife and pushing her views onto others. Religious right have become no better than Nazis and want everyone to follow their ways yet when a person who has their own faith does not believe their way its an issue of freedom of faith. Yet they seem to think others do not have the same rights and really want to tell them stop infringing on my faith. We as LBGT need to start filing suits against them for the same freedoms and make them back off and respect us as people with exactly the same rights as the right.
glennmcbride
Your comment might be more comprehensible if you paid some attention to grammar and punctuation.
whereshouldistart
Meghan who?
Next!
metta
I wish there was a real progressive on the show, but corporate will never allow it.
Bengali
Hopefully Abby Huntsman will return.
Vag Dentata
Give the miss lady hosts of The View a huge raise !!! I have to say that once I get passed being pissed because of what she spews she is actually a scream ! On another wavelength perhaps. I do admit that I will miss her covid hair-donts. Lots of church giggles goin’ on ! #mehgansmokescatnip
nitejonboy
I could have lived with her batsh-t crazy theories and ridiculous arguments, if only she had learned how to act like a professional. She is the ultimate hypocrite, she dishes it out but when she gets it back she cries foul and whines like a baby. If she could have acted like a pro AND had a batsh-t crazy opinions it might have at least been watchable, but it just got tiring after a while. I think Barbara Walters should come back on and inform the audience that, like Star Jones who tried to lie before her, Meghan DID NOT QUIT, SHE WAS FIRED. That would serve her right.
Cam
Everyone knew it was a lie. McCain had 2 years left on her contract, the job requires no work (From her, because McCain never did her research) and paid a lot of money.
She was obviously told to go and that lie wasn’t fooling anyone.
That’s what she gets for throwing in her lot with the lying, conspiracy wing of the GOP that her husband supports.
tyrammstein
years ago daddy’s girl was bearable for a few minutes at a time. after her marriage to a right wing mouth piece for bad ideas , daddys girl became husbands voice on the view. her moderate to right tone changed to shrill right wing propaganda just as her husband wanted. she is sad and pathetic. no sense of self. no idea that she was and is dependent on men to be who she is.
ttm9
The PU, View, is one of the MOST annoying shows on TV! The ENTIRE panel is totally nauseating and lame. The only reason I watch the first 10 minutes, on occasion, it works much better than coffee to keep me regular. Queerly is so far left it’s sickening!!
Cam
The troll account just couldn’t hold it together.
Trying to deflect from McCain’s right wing conspiracy pushing, etc. it attacked all of the View, but then had to spew out that Queerty was far left.
Sweetie, I’ve told you under multiple screenames, your troll game is sad and weak.
humble charlie
Where will they find someone to replace her?
Are there any rocks around to lift up?
Fahd
I read the PageSix item that is basically reproduced here, and although PageSix definitely implied Meghan was fired, it didn’t come out and say it explicitly – in fact the PageSix repeated the “more time with family” line. The Queerty headline here is, yes, misleading.
It’s an everyday thing that employees are offered the chance to resign before being fired – looks like that’s what happened here – surprise, surprise. Btw, everyone already knew that it was just about her having been given the chance to save face.
I prefer to focus on the end result in this case – she will be gone very soon.
BoomerMyles
Meghan is a vicious Harrigan and I couldn’t be happier she’s finally going to be gone.
I suspected her end was near after her last blowup at Whoopi. And then after her last on air fight with Joy she was curiously absent the next day (obviously on suspension).
She’ll never be on network again. (Fox doesn’t count since it’s scrubbed from my channel list and I NEVER have to see it.)
BoomerMyles
Sorry, I meant harridan not harrigan.
cuteguy
Good riddance. She was toxic. She and her homophobic husband
Kevan1
Another nut case down the drain.
Terrycloth
Hey Tucker Carlson we found you a
Co host.
rbernard
I say good riddance and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Dasher718
I watch the view pretty much on the daily so I’m well aware of Meghan’s outbursts. Watching her adult temper tantrums and her constant whataboutism’s was truly nauseating. She didn’t add anything to the show except vitriol. And it was obvious she liked the sound of her own voice as she usually blabbed on way longer than the other ladies. When she announced her “departure” i was literally LOL at her endless “thank you’s“ GURL……….this isn’t the Academy Awards (I’d like to thank….) it’s a daytime talk show. Calm down, Felicia. You’re not that important. I’m overJOYed she got fired. GURL BYE!
lykeitiz
Where did the rest of the comments go?
Hmmm………
Trublusu
My view is that Meghan got the hook after she called the Vice President a “MORON”
for no other reason than she hates her. I think she also insinuated that Kamala “slept” her way to the top of the political heap. BTW, I believe that she is the 3rd wife of her current husband – some Trumper lunatic.
ScottOnEarth
Anyone who says they’re quitting a job to “spend time with family” is lying. Especially a high-paid non-job like the one that the shrill Meghan managed to hold on to fo a several years. She will definitely not be missed by the majority of us.
winemaker
She got her obnoxious ass canned just like rosie o’ donnel. Who in their right mind still watches this waste of a whole hour and intelligence.? The view, if you call only one view is nothing more than an ultra liberal bitch fest about anything conservative or what the hosts, if you can call these overpaid and loudmouth hags ‘hosts’ feel like discussing. And why is this issue still being discussed and being rehashed?. Time to move on to more important issues that need attention, ‘Nuff said.
daddytop
It’s the ultra liberals that saved your dumbass from the concentration camps the right wing wants to put us in.