Candance Cameron Bure and Paula Faris will join “The View” as co-hosts, TheWrap has confirmed. The two women will round out the cast of five, joining moderator Whoopi Goldberg, actress Raven Symone and comedienne Michelle Collins.
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Lou Rocco/ABC Actress Candace Cameron Bure is going to add to the full house at “The View“, according to Variety. The Netfix series films in Los Angeles, so Cameron-Bure would have to miss some weeks of the New York-based talk show.
Paula is the co-anchor of GMA Weekend and she will only work four days a week, Monday through Thursday, so she can keep her other position. The network is hoping that Faris can fill the show’s “journalist spot”, by offering the perspective of a news personality. Just last week she made headlines for defending a bakery that refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
“The View” has been a revolving door for some time when it comes to panelists, but it is at least starting to appear like the show has figured out who they want on board in the immediate future. On Thursday, ABC announced a new director-Sarah De La O (“Bachelor Pad”)-for “The View” after the last one bailed. If Cameron Bure doesn’t for some reason close a deal to co-host, she’ll be considered as a contributor, according to sources, but ABC doesn’t have another Republican lined up for the co-host job. Balthazar left in February to return to HGTV, three months after ABC News took over the program a week before the abrupt departure of co-host Rosie O’Donnell.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck offered conservative opinions on “The View” for almost a decade before leaving for Fox News to become co-host of “Fox & Friends” in 2013, noted People magazine.
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Instead, after her recent on-air spat with Raven-Symoné, Cameron Bure (noted defender of the infamous anti-gay bakers) was invited to join the panel full-time, where she’ll divide her time between The View and Netflix’s Fuller House. The next season premieres in mid-September.
