Joy Behar suggests she plans to retire from The View in summer 2022

Variety

Behar, the only The View co-host who has been on the ABC daytime talk show at its launch in 1997, revealed her exit plan in a new interview for the paperback edition of Variety writer Ramin Setoodeh's tell-all book Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View. Behar has been on The View for every season except for Seasons 17 and 18 from 2013 through 2015. “I have a three-year contract,” Behar said in the book. “But that doesn’t mean I can’t leave if I want to, because they can’t really do anything to me at this point. I don’t see myself staying for more (time). That’s it! I could be wrong. If I’m as fabulous in (2022) as I am now, I’ll think about. But the chances of that happening…” She paused to reflect. “You know, time marches on. I’m not a kid.” Behar turns 80 in October 2022. An ABC spokesperson denied that she would be leaving. "This is not true,” the network spokesperson said. “Joy was asked what happens at the end of her contract and as she herself made clear in the interview, if she’s ‘as fabulous in (2022) as I am now,’ she will be in her seat at the table.”