ABC’s The View returned Monday with all four co-hosts in place just days after Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were forced to leave the show under the guise of positive COVID tests.
The incident happened minutes before Vice President Kamala Harris was scheduled to appear on set. However, the test would eventually be identified as false positives and on Monday’s show, executive producer Brian Teta addressed the issue during a brief Q&A with Joy Behar.
“I really want to acknowledge and apologize to Sunny and Ana because in the midst of all this chaos they were put in this position where they had this information put out on television, and then to make it even worse it turned out not to be true later on,” Teta said.
Hostin said the series of events “triggered” a range of emotions that she didn’t want to feel.
“For me, it was particularly triggering because not too long ago I delivered the eulogy at my in-law’s funeral. So, you could imagine how I felt thinking that I could possibly be COVID-positive, and my family could experience another loss, a loss that I don’t think my husband could handle,” she said.
