Kathy Griffin upset Barbara Walters by turning down ‘The View’ cohost job

Kathy Griffin said in her stand-up sets for a long time that she had been prohibited The view Several times over the years. Now, the actress reveals that she once upset Barbara Walters, the late radio journalist who co-created the legendary Talk show ABC, by refusing an offer of 1.4 million dollars to join the program as a permanent cohost.

In a YouTube video published this week, Griffin summarized his tumultuous story with The view – Stories on which have appeared in the standing specials of Griffin over the years, including the memories of Walters, which would have spoken to Griffin of his penchant for the astroglide lubricant and a battle on the camera with Elisabeth Hasselbeck who would have finally refused to shake the hand of Griffin.

Griffin noted that after having co -hosted almost 30 times while offering a potential offer to reach the table of hot subjects as a permanent panellist in the mid -2000s, she asked her team to take a step by obtaining the concert.

“Finally, I told my agent:” Tell them, if they offer me a permanent chair, tell them to simply offer me the chair or not. “I continue to fly there, they try so many new hosts, I’m like, I have finished auditioning. Griffin remembers.

She continued: “So, they made me an offer, and the offer was $ 1.4 [million]. I’m just going to be honest, I had to refuse it. At the time, between doing [my reality show] My life on the list D And on tour, I earned about $ 10 [million] One year. I had to refuse The view Because I should have uprooted all my life. “”

At the time, Griffin said that his parents, the late Maggie and John Patrick Griffin, were not easy to travel, and that she was invested too much to help their daily life in Los Angeles to ask them to move to New York if she guaranteed the cohost position.

“I remember when they offered me the job, Barbara Walters said behind the scenes once, before going out and doing the live show:” They say that we have chemistry. I don’t really see it, but they say that we do it “,” said Griffin. “I loved it, I said,” Of course we do it, Barbara, people like when I give you – “and then she was rolling her eyes.”

Later, when she returned to the show after making her decision to refuse the offer, Griffin said she wanted to wait to inform Walters until they were together in person.

“”[I told her] “I want you to know why I’m going to say no. It’s not that I think I’m too good for the show, it’s the opposite; The show is too good for me ” said Griffin. “”[I said] “I’m going to be honest, how much money was I won last year. I will show you my income statements. I don’t want you to think I’m blowing smoke. ‘”

She then cited moving costs, having her house in Los Angeles and traveling complications that were not possible for her.

“She didn’t like it a bit. She didn’t care, they didn’t put their offer by a sou,” added Griffin. “I think I could have said something like:” Can you meet me halfway? “And they didn’t do it.”

The view Finally hired her compatriot and actress Rosie O’Donnell to join the panel in 2006, Griffin making another memorable impression in the series in May 2007, when she was cohost invited shortly after the emblematic O’Donnell ventilation fight with Hasselbeck.

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During her appearance in this episode, Griffin drew Hasselbeck’s anger in the air, after the actor has worked several times to juicy confrontation in most of the segments of which she was part – including an interview with Dancing The winners Apolo Ohno and Julianne Hough, which Hasselbeck called “Unreal” in the moment.

Griffin supported in her stand-up actions that she was finally prohibited The viewAlthough it appeared as a guest in the following years, including in an episode of March 2024. (Walters died in 2022, at 93).)

Weekly entertainment contacted a Griffin representative and The view for comment.

Watch Griffin discuss his experience on The view in the video above.