Ana Navarro officially became a permanent co-host on as the talk show enters Season 26. The Nicaraguan-born political commentator had been a weekly guest co-host since 2018 but had started making appearances as a contributor since 2013.
When Whoopi Goldberg made the announcement she said that Navarro was “overqualified to be called our guest anymore.”After a clip of Navarro’s best moments over the years aired, the talk show host said that it was now time to “finally [put] a ring on it and [make] it official.” She firstly thanked all the fans of the ABC daytime program saying she had “read, heard, and seen” all of them.
Although Navarro won’t appear full-time because of “other work commitments,” her life with her husband in Miami, and a “very clingy do,” she will make more regular appearances.Navarro went on to thank the producers of the show and delivered a passionate speech about the representation of Latino immigrants.“I’ve thought about it long and hard.
As you all know, most weeks I’m on a plane at least four times a week, and I spent countless hours on planes, at airports, in hotels — sometimes it gets lonely,” she added. “But I also know it’s a huge, enormous, incomparable privilege to be part of a 25-year institution.
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