Whoopi Goldberg Is Taking an Extended Break from 'The View,' Joy Behar Explains Her Absence

Whoopi Goldberg is taking an extended break from The View and her co-star Joy Behar is explaining why she will be gone from the show.

The 66-year-old Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony-winning entertainer was missing from the show’s panel on Monday (April 11) and Joy told audiences where she was.

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Whoopi is currently shooting the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series Anansi Boys, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s book for which he is serving as a co-showrunner.

“If you’re wondering where Whoopi is, the girl’s got a movie she’s making and she will be back when she finishes whatever she’s doing,” Joy said on The View. “So she’s gone for a while.”

It was announced last week that Whoopi is playing Bird Woman, “the god of birds and one of the story’s primary antagonists. She and the other newly cast actors will play gods who make up the World Before Time — a place where the animals are gods who still walk and that’s full of beauty, magic and danger,” according to THR.

Also starring in the series are Malachi Kirby and Delroy Lindo.