--- title: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Responds to Rosie O’Donnell 'The View' Rumors description: It's rumored that Rosie O'Donnell will be returning to The View, and her former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she is not surprised. canonical: https://time.com/2970049/elisabeth-hasselbeck-rosie-odonnell-the-view/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-09T17:48:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:03:10.680Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Responds to Rosie O’Donnell 'The View' Rumors og:description: It's rumored that Rosie O'Donnell will be returning to The View, and her former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she is not surprised. og:url: https://time.com/2970049/elisabeth-hasselbeck-rosie-odonnell-the-view/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17c8704fce7a6e41/69869b13e53abaa5e24d3817/elisabeth-hasselbeck.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Active Family Project Kick-Off Event og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Responds to Rosie O’Donnell 'The View' Rumors twitter:description: It's rumored that Rosie O'Donnell will be returning to The View, and her former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she is not surprised. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17c8704fce7a6e41/69869b13e53abaa5e24d3817/elisabeth-hasselbeck.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Elisabeth Hasselbeck Isn't Shocked By Rosie O’Donnell’s Rumored Return to _The View_ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jul 9, 2014 5:48 PM UTC  Emmy-winning co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck attends Active Family Project Kick-Off Event at Gramercy Park Hotel Rooftop on May 6, 2013 in New York City. Emmy-winning co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck attends Active Family Project Kick-Off Event at Gramercy Park Hotel Rooftop on May 6, 2013 in New York City.Ben Gabbe—Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jul 9, 2014 5:48 PM UTC It’s [rumored](http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/07/rosie-odonnell-the-view-negotiations-return/) that Rosie O’Donnell will be returning to _The View_, and her former co-host on the show, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, says she is not surprised. O’Donnell and Hasselbeck butted heads often when they were both on the talk show, and while Hasselbeck is not thrilled by the news, she said on [_Fox & Friends_](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/07/09/elisabeth-hasselbeck-weighs-in-on-rosie-odonnells-rumored-return-to-view/)Wednesday that she thinks the deal has “been in the works for a long, long time.” Hasselbeck told Fox that during a TV special for Barbara Walters’ retirement in May, O’Donnell told her Hasselbeck had helped produce the celebratory show. “Would you think that the woman who left the way that she did would be producing \[Walters’\] goodbye show? Here’s the shocker: It was actually \[O’Donnell’s\] hello show,” Hasselbeck said in the interview. Hasselbeck did not hold back how she felt about O’Donnell’s return, saying: “Here in comes to _The View_ the very woman who spit in the face of our military, spit in the face of her own network and really in the face of a person who stood by her and had civilized debates for the time that she was there.” O’Donnell left the talk show in 2007 after only one season. \[[_FOX_](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/07/09/elisabeth-hasselbeck-weighs-in-on-rosie-odonnells-rumored-return-to-view/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2970049/elisabeth-hasselbeck-rosie-odonnell-the-view/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2970049/elisabeth-hasselbeck-rosie-odonnell-the-view/"},"headline":"Elisabeth Hasselbeck Isn't Shocked By Rosie O’Donnell’s Rumored Return to The View","datePublished":"2014-07-09T17:48:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:03:10.680Z","description":"The former co-host is not happy, but not shocked by the rumors","url":"https://time.com/2970049/elisabeth-hasselbeck-rosie-odonnell-the-view/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17c8704fce7a6e41/69869b13e53abaa5e24d3817/elisabeth-hasselbeck.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17c8704fce7a6e41/69869b13e53abaa5e24d3817/elisabeth-hasselbeck.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Active Family Project Kick-Off Event","caption":"Active Family Project Kick-Off Event","creditText":"Ben Gabbe—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2970049/elisabeth-hasselbeck-rosie-odonnell-the-view/","name":"Elisabeth Hasselbeck Isn't Shocked By Rosie O’Donnell’s Rumored Return to The View"}}]}] ```