The View host Joy Behar, 81, tests positive for COVID for the FIRST TIME - as her co-hosts mock her for boasting that she had 'a special blood type' that made her immune
Whoopi Goldberg , 68, revealed live on The View Tuesday that Behar, 81, will be absent for the rest of the week following her positive test result.
'Joy is out this week. You know why? She finally got COVID,' she told the studio audience, who groaned in response. 'Three years, four years in, it finally got her.'
Behar's co-stars couldn't resist joking about how she could no longer boast about her immune system after dodging the virus for nearly four years.
'She can stop bragging now,' Sara Haines, 46, said.
'About her special blood type,' Sunny Hostin, 55, chimed in.
'That's right,' Goldberg agreed, before announcing that the 'fabulous, amazing Yvette Nicole Brown' would be filling in for Behar during her absence.
Brown, 52, revealed during the show's 'Hot Topics' segment that her boyfriend, Anthony 'Tony' Davis, had proposed to her.
'I heard that The View is the place to announce things like this. I’m engaged,' she said, holding up her left hand to show off her ring.
'He’s here!' she added, pointing to her fiancé in the audience. 'That’s Tony.'
Brown shared that she and David were longtime friends before they fell in love.
'We have known each other since we were in our 20s. We were in an acting class together at church years ago,' she explained. 'He’s an amazing actor, by the way — Anthony Davis, everybody.
'He was married at the time and we were platonic friends and then we lost touch for a few years and then my mom passed two years ago and he found me. After he divorced! Divorce first,' she added.
When Alyssa Farah Griffin asked how Davis proposed, Brown said he popped the question while they were visiting her hometown.
'An auditorium was named after me in my old high school. We were celebrating that and then we were at a party and he gave me a scratcher and on the scratcher it said, "Will you marry me?"' she explained. 'I thought I was gonna win some money and I won a man!'.
It's unclear how long Behar will be absent from The View.
The host typically takes off Mondays and was last seen on the show on Friday, December 10.
Behar navigated the COVID-19 pandemic with an abundance of caution and took a break from The View in mid-March 2020, just days before states began to implement shutdowns.
'I'm in a higher risk group because of my age, but I'm perfectly healthy,' said the panelist, who was 77 at the time. 'I don't look my age, but I'm actually up there. The number makes me dizzy.'
In July 2022, Behar was sick with a virus and missed a few days of the show, but she insisted she did not have COVID.
'I’m here to remind everybody, there are diseases out there besides COVID,' she said following her return to work.
'I had a virus, that’s it, a really strong virus. I tested negative in five PCR tests. I did not have it. I still have never had it, but I’m a little worried about getting it now.'
Behar credited her husband, Steve Janowitz, and her dog for caring for her.
'My husband was very good. He took care of me,' she said. 'And my dog never left my side while I was in bed. I did not eat for four days. I was sick and I just didn’t get out of bed.'
Many of The View hosts have been out sick with COVID-19 over the years, including Goldberg and Griffin.
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