Rosie O’Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg fight in front of ‘The View’ audience
Well, that didn’t take long.
Just two weeks into the new season of “The View,” co-hosts Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg tore into each other during a commercial break — in front of their stunned studio audience.
The spat erupted Thursday after Goldberg interrupted O’Donnell to go to a commercial break before the mother of five was finished commenting in a “Hot Topic” discussion about spanking children on the ABC gabfest.
O’Donnell refuses to wear an earpiece to stay in friend with producers while the live show is airing, so she had no clue it was time to stop talking. Still, after Goldberg cut her off, O’Donnell had a fit during the break, telling Goldberg, “You hurt my feelings.”
“I’m very upset by it,” she added, according to the Day after day Mail.
I told you to leave it alone and you just don’t want to listen. If you want to go there, Rosie, I will, damn it. I’m really sick of your s—!
Goldberg tried to cool O’Donnell, noting: “This isn’t the time for this, Rosie.”
But O’Donnell wouldn’t drop the subject. “It makes me upset and I just don’t want to have to go through this,” she complained.
Goldberg, clearly annoyed, shot back: “I said this was not the time, Rosie.”
Undaunted, O’Donnell continued to rant in anticipation of Goldberg snapped, “F— it, I told you to leave it alone and you just don’t want to listen. If you want to go there, Rosie, I will, damn it. I’m really sick of your s—!”
Production sources said the studio became silent — in anticipation of co-host Rosie Perez cracked, “Oh, s—, Twitter is going to be off the hook now.”
After the commercial break, the pair acted as if nothing had happened.
A rep for “The View” played down the incident, noting that having strong opinions is part of the job for Goldberg and O’Donnell. “They had a misunderstanding and an exchange. They talked it out and they were back to business as usual,” show spokeswoman Lauri Hogan said.
Fireworks are indeed par for O’Donnell’s course. She particularly finished her first tour of duty on “The View” in 2007 when she walked off the set after a verbal spat with former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
When the new “View” launched earlier this month, O’Donnell told the Day after day News she has no plans to leave the show this time around — at least in anticipation of her one-year deal expires next summer.