Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Abby Huntsman each have a bone to pick with the show—and they’re returning to the table.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Abby Huntsman each have a bone to pick with the show—and they’re returning to the table.is heating up its hot topics by bringing back some familiar faces during host Alyssa Farah Griffin’s maternity leave.
The former Trump aide will be replaced by rotating guest hosts and show alums Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Abby Huntsman, per. Savannah Chrisley, the daughter of reality TV personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley, is also set to scrub in, despite the hosts’ less-than-pleased reactions on-air about Trump’s pardoning of her parents’ bank fraud and tax evasion charges.Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Imagesproducer Brian Teta told Deadline on Wednesday. “They are big shoes to fill,” he told the site, as he explained that the guest choices were “all about a different point of view at the table,” and “who are good at this job or who have the potential to be good at this job”—not just politics. But the show’s political discussions will likely be more heated than usual, particularly considering Hasslebeck and Huntsman’s previous tenures on the show.Hasslebeck was a permanent co-host from November 2003 to July 10, 2013, and was known for her polarizing right-wing views—including the time she shamed women who access abortionsafter Joy Behar criticized Carrie Underwood for performing at Donald Trump’s inauguration. The show has “refused to put anyone there who has a lick of sense on most days,” she also told Fox News at the time.a “toxic workplace” as the real reason for her exit, though she’d publicly stated that she left to work for her father, Jon Huntsman’s, gubernatorial campaign at the time. The environment on the show was “all about money and the tabloids,” she said, declaring“did not reflect my values” and “rewarded people for bad behavior.” She did not name anyone specific when she made the accusations.Chrisley helped arrange her parents’ prison releases with Trump’s help. She is “excited” to co-host the show for the first time, despite the hosts’ comments about her parents’ pardon, she said on her podcast, Behar and Ana Navarro both slammed the move as “unethical” in May, with Behar adding, “According to this administration, if you’re a reality star with a lot of money and a tax cheat and you commit fraud, then that’s good — we’re going to give you a pardon.” Chrisley addressed the comments last month, “I mean, these personalities have bashed my family, have bashed me,” she said. “These are the same women who made a comment to the extent of, ‘Wonder what she had to do for those pardons.’” Griffin will vacate her seat for her controversial temporary replacements after her last day on the show next Friday, Feb. 13.
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