Meredith Vieira Denies a Potential ‘The View’ Return: ‘Sounds Like a Prison Term’
usmagazine.comThank you, next! While reflecting on The View, Meredith Vieira revealed that she has no plans to reprise her role as a moderator.“There’s a time for everything, I like to say, and I kinda did my time,” Vieira, 68, who appeared on The View from its debut in 1997 until 2006, told E!
News‘ Daily Pop earlier this month, before joking, “That sounds like a prison term, actually.”The Rhode Island native noted that the daytime talk show has evolved since she left. “It’s a different show and I think it’s fantastic,” she added. “For me, it was so great to be on the ground floor of something because you have a bond with people when you’re creating something as a group.”According to Vieira, one of the most difficult aspects of getting The View off the ground was finding their viewers. “We really didn’t know our audiences for that first year.
They would bus them in wherever they could find them. I think they were dragging them off the street! Lots of people with oxygen tanks,” the former Today cohost explained. “We would go, ‘Where did they get them from?’ Or people who did not speak English who were obviously on a tour of New York, and they loaded them on a bus.
I don’t know if they told them what they were going to go see.”The broadcast journalist also admitted she didn’t initially expect The View to find any success.“I was a reporter at that time who really didn’t want to report, as my husband pointed out to me several times, because I didn’t want to travel,” Vieira, who has been married to Richard M.
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