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The View’s Bloody Backstage Politics: How Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie Lost Control of Their Show

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The search is on for two co-hosts to join Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell on ABC’s daytime chat show, while a backstage battle for control has left Walters out of the driver’s seat.

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When ABC’s long-popular daytime program The View returns in September for its 18th season, creator Barbara Walters will no longer have an ownership stake, and longtime executive producer Bill Geddie won’t be at the helm.

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“He won’t be back,” a person familiar with the inner workings of the show told The...

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