Abby Huntsman Exits "Fox & Friends" Franchise to Join "The View"
by Lisa de Moraes
August 9, 2018


About two weeks after Sara Haines became the latest to pass through The Revolving Door of "The View" to host the third hour of "Good Morning America" with Michael Strahan, her replacement has been named.

"Fox & Friends Weekend" co-host Abby Huntsman, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Hunstman, will give the show a second conservative host to keep Sen. John McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain company.




A Fox News Channel spokesperson confirmed this will be Huntsman’s final weekend co-hosting "Fox & Friends Weekend", the Saturday and Sunday editions of President Donald Trump’s fave morning show.

"The View" had two vacant panelist chairs; Haines’ announcement followed by four days the news that three-year co-host Paula Faris is leaving the show, and her weekend GMA duties, for a new assignment that includes contributing to GMA and a podcast on faith.




ABC typically does not announce the new lineup until shortly before the show’s new season starts, right after Labor Day holiday. The show’s annual host-changeover soap opera is among reasons the ABC News daytime talker remains a darling of the media.

News of the development first surfaced on Mediaite.

https://deadline.com/2018/08/abby-huntsman-leaves-fox-friends-weekend-join-the-view-abc-news-1202443414/

"The View's" New Co-Host
by Andy Swift
August 28, 2018


Following reports earlier this month about Abby Huntsman joining "The View", ABC made it official on Tuesday, confirming her as a co-host for the daytime talker’s upcoming Season 22.

“I couldn’t be more be excited to return to my professional roots at ABC News,” Huntsman, whose career in journalism began at ABC, said in a statement. “I look forward to adding my own point of view to the most interesting and successful talk show on television today. Joining the women at The View really is a dream come true!”

Huntsman joins returning co-hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain and Whoopi Goldberg. "The View‘s" 22nd season kicks off Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 11/10c.

https://tvline.com/2018/08/28/abby-huntsman-the-view-co-host-season-22/

Abby Huntsman Finally Reveals Real Reason she Left "The View" on New Podcast
by Greg Evans
Oct. 28, 2021


When Abby Huntsman, who was one of "The View‘s" conservative co-hosts along with Meghan McCain during her relatively brief 2018-20 tenure, announced her departure from the oftentimes controversial ABC daytime talk show, the former Fox News personality said it was because she wanted to join and assist the Utah gubernatorial race of her father Jon Huntsman.

Rumors quickly spread on social media that the real reason Huntsman was leaving the show was its much-discussed “toxic” workplace environment, a reason Huntsman now confirms as true





In her new podcast called "I Wish Somebody Told Me" with friend, comedy writer and media producer Lauren Leeds, debuting today, Huntsman says she had decided to leave "The View" because the show’s workplace environment “did not reflect my values” and was “rewarding people for bad behavior.”

“I’m never going to write a tell-all book,” she says, but adds that the “executives in charge” had created an environment that “was all about money and the tabloids… You would see people act in ways that were not okay, that was very much part of the toxic environment of The View, and here we were going on the air criticizing others for toxic culture.”





Huntsman said she had already decided to leave the show when her father suggested she come to work for his political campaign, an offer that would make a convenient public excuse for leaving "The View".

Huntsman – who does not name names in the podcast as to who she did and didn’t get on well with, though her falling out with old friend McCain was well documented at the time – said that after she made the announcement of her departure, a "View" producer asked that she read a statement on air denying media reports of a toxic workplace, a request she turned down.

As she was walking on the set for what would be the last time, having said she wouldn’t read the statement, a producer, she says, sent her a text reading, “That was a mistake.”





Before the taping had concluded, Huntsman’s sister had emailed her a news article saying a source inside "The View" claimed that producers were going to fire Huntsman even before she announced her resignation.

“When I was walking out of the building that day, I was living again,” Huntsman says. “I could breathe and feel myself breathing. I was present and I hadn’t been present for the almost two years I was there.”

https://deadline.com/2021/10/abby-huntsman-the-view-real-reason-she-left-the-view-toxic-workplace-new-podcast-1234864015/