Whoopi Goldberg Has a Hilarious Word Flub on ‘The View,’ Says ‘Bitches’ Instead of ‘Beaches’ On Air
26.06.2023 - 21:43
/ usmagazine.com
On-air mistakes make for funny TV moments — and Whoopi Goldberg had her latest blunder on the Monday, June 26, episode of The View.
While discussing travel preferences during the show’s “Hot Topics” segment, the Oscar winner, 67, flubbed her script. “A poll of 2,000 adults in the U.K. found that when people travel, cuisine is more important to them than landmarks or bitches,” Goldberg said before quickly correcting herself: “Beaches!”
The moment caused Goldberg’s cohosts — Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin — and the show’s audience to erupt in laughter. The Sister Act star followed up by apologizing for the word mix-up before jokingly placing the blame on the show’s crew.
“I’m sorry. It says beaches,” she said during the show. “This is y’all’s fault, and I can’t even tell you why it’s their fault.”
Though Goldberg attempted to move past the embarrassing mistake and asked her cohosts about their thoughts on the travel poll, Navarro, 51, couldn’t help but get one quick quip in. “Honey, I will travel anywhere for a good bitch,” the political commentator stated, to which Goldberg sarcastically responded, “Thanks.”
While more lighthearted, the “beaches” incident is not the only awkward moment the EGOT winner has experienced on the show this year. Last month, Goldberg made waves when she called American Idol “the beginning of the downfall of society.”
“You have Basketball Wives, you have the Housewives of whatever, all the Bravo shows, giving you the impression that you’re doing something wrong because you’re living your life,” she explained during a May 24 discussion of the Netflix documentary Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me. “People watch these shows because they make them feel better. … I think