I turned down co-hosting ‘The View’ with Barbara Walters

Suzanne Somers claims she was provided — and declined — a co-hosting gig alongside “The View” creator Barbara Walters.

“I used to be initially requested to be on the unique ‘View’ with Barbara Walters and whoever else, and I turned it down,” the actress, 76, shared throughout Wednesday’s episode of the “Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef” podcast.

“And everybody stated, ‘Why would you flip that down? It is a nationwide present,’” Somers recalled.

“I stated, ‘First of all, I’ve to reside in New York. I don’t actually wanna reside in New York. I just like the climate down right here, and I just like the vibe down right here,’” she defined.

“But secondly, I don’t do nicely vying for time. And there, you gotta interrupt and butt in and butt out. It’s simply not my character.”

The “Three’s Company” star stated she “walked away from that” and has “by no means appeared again.”

Reps for ABC didn’t instantly reply to Page Six’s request for remark. Walters died in December 2022 on the age of 93.

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Though the pioneering journalist broke numerous limitations in her 50-year profession, her most prized endeavor was “The View,” which debuted in 1997.

The morning speak present, which remains to be airing, encompasses a various forged of panelists partaking in a roundtable dialogue about politics, leisure, household and different scorching matters.

After co-hosting for 17 years, Walters stepped down from the present in 2014 however remained an government producer.

“I don’t need to seem on one other program or climb one other mountain,” she advised the Los Angeles Times when she retired. “I need to as an alternative sit on a sunny subject and admire the very gifted ladies — and OK, some males too — who can be taking my place.”

Somers, for her half, is finest identified for her roles in sitcoms, together with “Step by Step.”