Whoopi Goldberg discusses group chats on ‘The View’ on Jan. 29. 2024.Photo:ABC
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Whoopi Goldbergis keeping her settings on do not disturb when the cameras stop rolling!
The Viewco-host, 68, hilariously pled her case on Monday’s episode of the talk show when the other panelists questioned why she keeps removing herself from work-related group text threads.
“Whoopi will gladly give you her spot,“Ana Navarrojoked, to which Hostin, 55, replied: “She doesn’t look at any of us.”
“I feel like Michael Corleone. Because I take myself off the group text… and then I’m BOOM, back! And I’m like, ‘What the,'” Goldberg said of herGodfather-esque group-chat evasion attempts.
Whoopi Goldberg attends FGI Night of Stars 39th Annual Gala in October 2023.Dia Dipasupil/Getty
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Hostin then elaborated, adding thatJoy Beharcontinues to add Goldberg to the group texts despite their co-host’s attempts to steer clear of work talk.
“No, it’s you and Joy,“Sara Hainestold Hostin. “You guys go into royal weddings and it goes back [and forth] and I want to be like, ‘Make [a] Whoopi of me,’ like, ‘Get me off this chain.’”
The Viewcrew then elaborated on Goldberg’s communication methods, revealing that she “silences” the texts and hides alerts, even when she remains in the group chats. “I don’t care! I don’t care what you’re upset about,” Goldberg quipped. “It’s the weekend!”
After Navarro, 52, explained that there could be problems with accidentally “texting the wrong group,” Goldberg added that she prefers to “know who I’m texting.”
“If I need to talk to you, I talk to you,” Whoopi added, later sharing that she only communicates “when I have something to say.”
“I don’t just be sending y’all stuff! I’m busy! I’m busy, you know,” she said. “When I talk about those hit and runs, what do you think I’m doing?”
‘The View’ panelists from left: Sara Haines, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin.ABC/Jeff Lipsky
Elsewhere during Monday’s episode, Goldberg chopped it up with newfound relative and NFL playerTony Gonzalez, who shediscovered was a “distant cousin"during an episode ofFinding Your Rootsthis month. The pair share DNA on Gonzalez’s mom’s father’s side and finally met for the first time on air.
“Cousin Whoopi! Cousin Whoopi,” Gonzalez called her, while Goldberg added, “That’s my blood right there.”
Navarro also teased: “I think this is probably the only cousin that could pop up that’s not going to wanna be in the will!”
After the NFL Hall of Famer joked about Goldberg’s will, the talk show personality then tried her luck to see if her new cousin could help her score a ticket to the Super Bowl.
“Julia Robertswas here, maybe a couple of weeks ago, and we were talking about theSuper Bowl’cause she wants to go. She says she’s never been,” she said, “And I said, ‘Well, maybe I could help you get in.”
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