Confirming the casting news that has been circulating all week, Barbara Walters announced that Whoopi Goldberg will be joining The View permanently.
“This is a big day for us. A happy day for us,” Walters, 77, said on the ABC show Wednesday.
Goldberg, 51, is scheduled to start the day after Labor Day. For her part, the performer said the new job as the show’s moderator is “a thrill” – and she promised to dress better.
“Ever watch The View?” Walters jokingly asked Goldberg as she sat down at the table and was presented with her own coffee mug.
“Once or twice,” Goldberg cracked. “You look familiar.”
No mention was made of comedian Sherri Shepherd, 40, whose name had circulated as the other likely contender to join the show in the fall. The published reports about Shepherd were not even addressed.
Elisabeth Hasslebeck, 30, asked what Goldberg thought of celebrity feuds, since the show has had its share recently. The new cohost told her and the other cohost, Joy Behar, 62, that she’s too mellow to get involved with such things – though Walters said she should remain edgy.
Goldberg also said she is most excited about the “Hot Topics” portion of the program. “The thing I’m looking forward to the least is getting in between everyone talking at one time.”
Drew Barrymore is has been tapped to executive produce VH1’s Clash of the Music Videos, a music-video competition show.
It is not yet clear if Barrymore will also appear in the show, which is set to debut in 2008. Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti will also produce.
The show will give two contestants a set amount of money to remake a classic 1980s music video, with the stars of the original video serving as judges to select a winner.
The series could expand into a franchise, eventually incorporating new genres.
And speaking of 80’s here is my all time favorite Drew Barrymore clip.
Lindsay Lohan’s father Michael is too scared to watch his daughter’s new movie – after storming out of a screening of her last film Georgia Rule when she appeared in a sex scene.
Estranged dad Michael can’t bear to watch the 21-year-old in love scenes and fears I Know Who Killed Me will leave him fleeing the movie theater in tears.
He tells In Touch magazine, “I go to every one of her movies. I had to leave Georgia Rule – during a couple of scenes I ran out of the theater. “I don’t want to see her in a sexual context; even if she’s acting, she’s my daughter first. And I Know Who Loved Me (sic) – I don’t even know if I’ll go to see that. If someone goes, and warns me ahead of time, ‘Michael, get out of the theater – something’s coming up,’ then I will.”
