‘The View’: All Co-Hosts Returning for Season 27, As Talk Show Ranked No. 1 in Daytime for 2022-2023 (EXCLUSIVE)

The “Hot Topics” on The View are going to get even hotter as their podcast Behind the Table gets an expansion along with the premiere of Season 27 on Tuesday, September 5.

Anderson Cooper is looking back on a “mortifying” experience he once shared with Madonna.

Madonna, when the Queen of Pop began spanking and humping him on stage.The professional journalist recalled the moment he attended a Madonna concert back in 2015, in a new interview – describing how the singer invited him onto the stage with her in an unexpected twist.The moment took place during the musician’s ‘Rebel Heart’ concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, where she jokingly pulled the CNN host into the spotlight and began spanking and humping him while she sang ‘Unapologetic Bitch’.Footage of the moment – which also saw Cooper awkwardly trying to dance to the track – soon made its way online, and eight years on, the journalist says he is still “mortified” by the experience.“That [moment,] I choose to forget. I’m mortified,” Cooper told Kelly Ripa during an interview with Sirius XM’s podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent Ever since “The Golden Bachelor” was announced, fans (and critics) have been wondering if the female contestants would be well, age appropriate, for the show’s senior citizen star. Or, would executives cast women of a different generation to date 72-year-old leading man, Gerry Turner? Now, that question has been answered, and these ladies are indeed fabulously mature, showing that age is nothing but a number. Love knows no limits, and “The Golden Bachelor” will showcase love stories for the golden years in life — something that is rarely seen in Hollywood, a notoriously ageist town.

Kelly Ripa didn’t have a bachelorette party!

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent After multiple legal letters have been sent to NBCUniversal regarding the treatment of the company’s reality stars — a fight that was kickstarted by former “Real Housewives” star Bethenny Frankel — Bravo is firing back, by clarifying on the record that the network does not silence cast members through non-disclosure agreements. Frankel has been vocal that she wants reality TV stars get better working conditions, payment, protections and possibly unionize.

photo of her man during a trip to Turkey on Instagram. In the sunny snapshot, Cárdenas, 75, was rocking swim trunks as he read a book in a cabana.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent If you haven’t watched the finale of “The Bachelorette” Season 20 yet, you may not know that Charity Lawson and Dotun Olubeko are happily engaged. If you are part of Bachelor Nation, you absolutely know that the winning duo is one of the strongest couples to come out of the dating franchise in over two decades. On this week’s final episode of Lawson’s season, the star of “The Bachelorette” was torn between her two finalists: Olubeko and Joey Graziadei, who was announced as “The Bachelor” lead for its upcoming 28th season that will air in 2024.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched “The Bachelorette” Season 20 finale with Charity Lawson, which aired August 21 on ABC. When one door closes, another opens. That mantra is certainly the truth for Joey Graziadei, a contestant on “The Bachelorette” who got his heart broken on national TV, only to learn moments later that he’s been selected as ABC’s next star of “The Bachelor.” Graziadei was the runner-up on “The Bachelorette” Season 20, starring leading lady Charity Lawson.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched “The Bachelorette” Season 20 finale with Charity Lawson, which aired August 21 on ABC. Leading lady Charity Lawson is now an engaged woman. After a shocking twist that saw Lawson breaking up with contestant, Xavier Bonner, during a one-on-one date where he confessed his past infidelity, “The Bachelorette” star surprised her remaining men by welcoming back Aaron Bryant, one of her suitors who was previously sent home. With that, Lawson’s final rose ceremony — before the proposal rose ceremony — ended up including three finalists: Bryant, Dotun Olubeko and Joey Graziadei.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent “The Bachelor” franchise is moving to Thursdays this fall, and that includes a new season of “Bachelor In Paradise.” And if the first trailer for Season 9 is any indication, Thursday nights will be more dramatic than ever. In true “Bachelor In Paradise” form, the trailer starts with a couple making out on the sand — only to be totally wiped out by a wave.

shared to Instagram, Navarro posed for pictures with her hands on her hips. Accompanying the snaps was a lengthy caption in which she told followers she wished she had “worn socks” inside the mosque to avoid walking on the disgusting floors.“When going into a Mosque, like Hagia Sophia or the Blue Mosque, you need to remove your shoes and cover your hair and shoulders and you can’t wear shorts/mini-skirts, etc,” Navarro wrote, adding: “I wish I’d worn socks. Walking barefoot on a carpet where millions walk is a little yuck to me.”The co-host added it’s important to remember to wear clothes that that adhere to the culture, “because the alternative is wearing some poncho thing you buy there or a musty, drab, olive scarf they lend you to cover your hair,” she said.“They are opening their doors.

slated to return for the show’s 27th season Sept. 5, but a new promo had fans freaking out that one star had been phased out. Joy Behar, 80, Sunny Hostin, 54, Ana Navarro, 51, Sara Haines, 45, and Alyssa Farah Griffin, 34, all star in the 80-second segment, which sees them each listing three words to describe their top-rated talk show.

Kelly Ripa plans to retire from Live! with Kelly and Mark one day, but for now, she’s happy to continue hosting the show alongside her husband, Mark Consuelos.

Kelly Ripa has an eye toward the future. The long-running host of reveals in a new interview that she's thinking about retirement «with great interest,» but isn't planning to make the big change quite yet. «I think the risk-averse quality I have is probably the reason I stayed with the same job for so long,» she says in an interview with Cristina Cuomo for wellness outlet The Purist.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent Filmmaker Emma Cooper had to turn her notifications off. The director of Netflix’s “Depp v. Heard” knew that by diving back into the trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, her latest project would attract a lot of commentary online.

The View will start its 27th season next month with all of the co-hosts returning.

We kind of laughed it off last week when Snooki opened up about her years-long feud with Joy Behar… but it turns out this thing is serious! And STILL going!

The drama between Joy Behar and Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi seemingly continues.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent After years in development, ABC’s senior citizen spinoff of “The Bachelor” is finally underway — and Variety has the first interview with the leading man himself since production has begun. Still weeks away from “The Golden Bachelor” premiere this fall, Gerry Turner, a 71-year-old grandpa from Indiana, is currently filming his season at “The Bachelor” mansion in Los Angeles, Calif., in hopes of finding love later in life.