Whoopi Goldberg & Joy Behar On Why They’re Not Retiring From ‘The View’

“I’ve Got To Keep Pay­ing Those Bills, Baby”

Whoopi Gold­berg and Joy Behar returned to The View Sea­son 29 this week, and they have no plans on retir­ing any­time soon.

The longest-tenured ABC day­time co-hosts revealed in an inter­view why they are not think­ing about quit­ting the show just yet.

When asked by Enter­tain­ment Tonight if she would slow down and enjoy life, Gold­berg said, “Yeah, but who can afford to do that? You know if you don’t mar­ry well, you got­ta keep work­ing.”

The reporter sug­gest­ed Gold­berg could be some­one who could afford not to work, to which the Sis­ter Act star added, “No, not by now. Not yet.”

Lat­er on in the report, Gold­berg said, “I’ve got to keep pay­ing those bills, baby.”

Behar, who has been on The View since the show pre­miered in 1997, not­ed that “cre­ative peo­ple don’t real­ly retire,” adding, “I just real­ly like to write and cre­ate stuff.”

The come­di­an recent­ly wrote the off-Broad­way stage play My First Ex-Hus­band, which fea­tured a rotat­ing cast that has includ­ed Behar, Susie Ess­man, Tovah Feld­shuh, Adri­enne C. Moore, Susan Luc­ci and oth­ers. Dur­ing a per­for­mance ear­li­er this year, her View co-host, Whoopi Gold­berg, made a spe­cial appear­ance.

“Cre­ative peo­ple don’t retire, they don’t resign, they just keep going,” Behar added.

The View recent­ly came under fire from Don­ald Trump’s White House for its crit­i­cism over the way the for­mer real­i­ty TV com­pe­ti­tion host is run­ning the coun­try. The show end­ed its last sea­son, mak­ing news and spark­ing threats from the White House after co-host Joy Behar allud­ed to Don­ald Trump’s attacks on for­mer U.S. Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma being moti­vat­ed by jeal­ousy.

White House spokesper­son Tay­lor Rogers said, “Joy Behar is an irrel­e­vant los­er suf­fer­ing from a severe case of Trump Derange­ment Syn­drome. It’s no sur­prise that The View’s rat­ings hit an all-time low last year. She should self-reflect on her own jeal­ousy of Pres­i­dent Trump’s his­toric pop­u­lar­i­ty before her show is the next to be pulled off air.”

The View has remained the most-watched day­time talk show for five con­sec­u­tive sea­sons, with the pan­el dis­cussing pol­i­tics, pop cul­ture, and every­day life.