The talk show hosts on “The View” are being pressured to tone down their criticism of President Trump after ABC’s latest round of layoffs, The Post reported Friday.
An insider close to Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro exclusively told The Post that “morale is low” as cost-cutting continues.
Sources also disclosed that the mood on set is growing tense after the show’s executive producer, Brian Teta, asked staffers to go “easy” on Trump-related conversations ahead of the 47th president’s inauguration last month.
Despite the show’s nearly 2.6 million total viewers in the last four weeks, staffers are terrified for their jobs after Teta laid off at least nine workers including two senior female producers, Jamie Hammer and Audrey Jones, one insider shared.
“People were shocked that he’d fire such experienced, well-respected producers,” the source said, adding, “Morale is low.”
The insider claimed that “everybody is waiting for the other shoe to drop” despite the firings being part of parent company Disney’s wider cost-cutting initiative in October.
“There’s a lot of anxiety even though they just went through layoffs,” said the source.
Meanwhile, The Post has learned that the show’s co-hosts are disgruntled over the fact that they are sharing a studio and dressing room with Tamron Hall’s eponymous show in ABC’s new headquarters.
An insider close to the situation said the ladies of “The View” are unhappy that their guests have to share a dressing room with the other show’s guests and that the set must be treated as a shared space.
Staffers, therefore, cannot leave their belongings in the studio overnight as they could at their previous workspace. Furthering anxieties, the shows have allegedly been quarreling over taping schedules, which are sometimes known to overlap.
“Tamron Hall thinks she’s Oprah. She is very demanding,” the source said. “She doesn’t realize she’s playing second fiddle to ‘The View.’”
Another source familiar with both show’s production teams told The Post: “Kudos to both productions for seamlessly working together to bring our viewers several hours of television each week.”
As Page Six previously reported, ABC News has moved the majority of its shows to New York City’s downtown Hudson Square neighborhood — dubbed by staffers as “no man’s land.”
On top of having to share the space, employees must deal with the heavy traffic surrounding the nearby Holland Tunnel.
“There are not a lot of desks. People just get drawers, and they are assigned lockers,” an insider shared. “The new office is very basic. There isn’t enough space or offices. There are no executive suites, just regular-sized offices.”
A network source denied the claim, telling us there are “plenty of desks” and spaces to “accommodate everyone.”
“The building is gorgeous,” the network source said, though the first source asserted, “Everyone at ABC News hates the studio downtown.”
Reps for ABC News and Tamron Hall declined to comment to The Post.
“The View” co-hosts have become more cautious about the way they discuss politics when it comes to Trump.
Last month, Haines said she felt out of touch with her viewers because she and her co-hosts didn’t vote for Trump.
Griffin, a former Donald Trump staffer who ended up endorsing Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, also clashed with Goldberg when she tried to convince her to be more open to engaging in conversations with the other side.
“Democrats have to be willing to go to uncomfortable spaces,” Griffin said at the time, admitting to agreeing with some of Trump’s policies.
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