Meghan McCain’s father, the late John McCain, had to convince his daughter to accept her job offer from “The View.”
The senator was gravely ill when the offer came in for Meghan to replace Jedediah Bila in 2017, and he pushed her to take it, despite her family’s ambivalence to the all-female talk show.
“I didn’t take the offer seriously, because, no shade to the show, it just wasn’t the show that I wanted to work on. A carousel of people getting on and off; it didn’t seem to have a lot of direction,” she recalled to Elle magazine. “And it was my dad who talked me into it. He said, ‘You can’t ever give up an opportunity to work on a network with Whoopi Goldberg.’ ”
Meghan has made headlines on various occasions because of her love-hate work relationship with more liberal co-host Joy Behar.
“Most of the time it’s complete bulls–t,” she said, “but sometimes there’s some truth to it.”
The 34-year-old co-host was rumored to be leaving “The View” in the next season because of her unhappiness, but the show denied it in a statement to Page Six.
“The co-hosts and ‘The View’ have had an incredible season and we expect them all back for an epic year ahead,” a spokesperson for the show told us.