BREAKING NEWS: COVID Chaos on The View: Hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro are dramatically pulled off panel LIVE on air after testing positive for COVID – just MOMENTS before Kamala Harris interview
- Kamala Harris was scheduled to sit down with The View’s four co-hosts for an interview Friday
- Just seconds before she walked out on stage, two of the co-hosts – Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro – were ordered off set after returning positive COVID results
- The positive results sent producers scrambling and Harris’ interview was delayed; one critic called the ensuing broadcast ‘an absolute trainwreck’
- Harris eventually conducted her interview with The View’s two remaining co-hosts via video link
- She claims she did not meet with any of the hosts face-to-face prior to the interview and she will not quarantine
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The View hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro have been dramatically pulled off air during a live broadcast after testing positive for COVID ahead of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Hostin and Navarro were broadcasting live Friday morning from ABC’s New York City studios, where they were scheduled to sit down with Harris in her first daytime appearance as VP.
But the pair were dramatically ordered off set seconds before Harris walked out on stage, leaving producers scrambling.
An employee of The View was heard yelling at both Hostin and Navarro, ordering them out as co-hosts Joy Behar and Sara Haines remained on stage.
The show quickly cut to commercial, before Behar later explained that her co-stars had returned positive results from a last-minute test.
‘Sunny and Ana both apparently tested positive for COVID. No matter how hard we try, these things happen,’ Behar explained.
‘They probably have a breakthrough case and they will both be okay, I’m sure, because they are both vaccinated’.
A spokesperson from the Vice President’s Office told DailyMail.com that Harris ‘did not meet with the hosts prior to the interview’.
The View hosts Sunny Hostin (second right) and Ana Navarro (far right) were dramatically ordered off set after testing positive for COVID ahead of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday
The pair were dramatically ordered off set seconds before Harris walked out in front of a live audience, leaving producers scrambling
A producer yelled at the co-hosts, ordering them to leave the stage just seconds before Harris was set to be introduced
However, the interview with Harris was delayed, causing chaos on the show. Behar then began asking audience questions in a bid to kill time.
‘Vice President Harris apparently is waiting backstage. Behar now taking questions from the audience. An absolute train wreck,’ The Hill columnist Joe Concha tweeted.
Harris did not come out to the stage, instead conducting her interview with Behar and Haines via video link from a room elsewhere at the ABC studios.
She addressed the saga at the beginning of her chat, stating: ‘ Sunny [Hostin] and Ana [Navarro] are strong women and I know they’re fine, but it really also does speak to the fact that they’re vaccinated and vaccines really make all the difference because otherwise we would be concerned about hospitalization and worse.’
It’s unclear why ABC’s COVID testing results were received at the 11th hour. It’s also unclear how frequently Hostin and Navarro had been tested for the virus in recent days.
The interview with VP Harris had long been in the works and had been vigorously promoted by the network in recent days.
Harris did not come out to the stage, instead conducting her interview with Behar and Haines via video link from a room elsewhere at the ABC studios