Before you run outside Whooping for Joy... the hiatus is only "temporary"

I just about spit coffee into my keyboard a few minutes ago when I read a headline saying that Joy Behar accidentally let slip the news about The View's going on hiatus starting after Friday's gabfest.

Sadly, the headline was just click-bait. The story turned out to be much less exciting. What the fragrant Ms Behar said at the top of today's epissode was, "Before we go on hiatus, we only have one more show after this, I’m allowed to say that, right?"

To that, Alyssa Farah Griffin [Who she? Ed.] laughingly responded, "Too late now!" A producer chimed in from the background to add, "Doesn’t really matter."

In fact, the witches of The View take a "summer hiatus" every year about this time, and so far they have always returned after Labour Day. This year's break comes a little earlier than usual, but the producers and the network say that's all there is to the story. 

It's interesting, though, that the ladies are going to wherever they go so quickly after Pam Bondi said that the alleged show could be pulled off the air. Many on antisocial media are wondering whether the break will become permanent if the show gets the same treatment as Stephen Colbert's late night show, recently canceled by CBS. We can only hope!