Latest in Whoopi Goldberg

Just days after President Joe Biden decried the wage disparity between female and male athletes, Whoopi Goldberg said on ABC’s The View that ESPN should “sweeten” its deal for the broadcast rights of WNBA games. After pointing out the Clark will make an initial annual salary of $76,535 as a player…

Tribeca Festival is crossing the Atlantic.  For the first time, the festival will host a European edition, set to take place in Lisbon, Portugal, October 17-19.  The event will consist of an opening night followed by a two-day event on Lisbon's waterfront. Wonder Woman filmmaker Patty Jenkins…

UPDATE, with video: The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg abruptly stopped the panel’s Hot Topics discussion today to scold an audience member apparently recording the proceedings with a cellphone. Getting up from her seat and walking to the side of the stage area, Goldberg sternly said, “Hold on a…

The View co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin, Ana Navarro, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin did public penance today for their recent “rabbit hole” speculation about Kate Middleton, saying they regret indulging in silly conspiracy theories that were rampant prior to the princess’ announcement Friday that she has…

Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin have joined Oprah Winfrey in speaking out about using weight loss medications, with Goldberg saying she made the decision after hitting almost 300 pounds during the filming of the 2022 film Till. “I weighed almost 300 pounds when I was made Till,” Goldberg said during…

Robert Downey Jr.’s long-in-coming Oscar win for Oppenheimer had a couple former co-stars so happy they just had to stop what they were doing to express their joy. Yesterday, Downey’s Avengers: Endgame costar Gwyneth Paltrow was having her hair and make-up done at home when Downey’s name was called…

BLKFAM, a new free, ad-supported streaming service created by digital marketing Larry Adams, launches today with Whoopi Goldberg as an equity partner. The streamer says it fills a major gap in the market as "the first and only Black-owned, Black-focused family streaming platform.” It starts with a…

It could be fifth time lucky for Annette Bening as she heads to this year's Oscars with yet another nomination – this time for Best Actress for her role in Nyad. Bening has on four previous occasions left the ceremony empty-handed, but she remembers fondly her first Oscars in 1991, when she was…

UPDATE, with video: Whoopi Goldberg has made no secret in recent years of people she’d like to cast in her long-in-the-works Sister Act 3 project, from original Sister costars Jenifer Lewis and Kathy Najimy to Jimmy Fallon, Charlamagne Tha God, Lizzo, Keke Palmer, and Nicki Minaj, and today she added…

The hosts of The View enjoyed the schadenfreude Monday morning by taking the stage to the theme song from The Apprentice. “We just walked out to The O’Jays ‘For the Love of Money,’ which is the the theme song of The Apprentice, and that’s connected to the fact that you-know-who has to pay money…

The Academy Awards don’t hand out participation trophies. Whoopi Goldberg, who has hosted the event, won an Oscar, and is an ex-Academy board member, was the calm voice in the room on Wednesday’s episode of The View. She argued against the hysteria over perceived “snubs” in the aftermath of the 2024…

Before welcoming Vice President Kamala Harris to ABC’s The View today, moderator Whoopi Goldberg had strong words for Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who recently said that America has “never been a racist country.” “Black folks didn’t climb up in the trees and lynch themselves,&#8221…