Major Emergency Forces ‘The View’ Cohosts to Evacuate

Discussions on The View can often get heated — but this time, there were actual flames to blame.

The View moderators Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin shared the scary start to the day on the Wednesday, April 10, episode of the talk show, during which they walked out to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” (The hosts’ walk-out music is occasionally event-based, like when they featured Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” on the day of the New York City earthquake last week.) On Wednesday, however, there was a studio fire.

“We walked out to Billy Joel’s hit ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ because it actually happened next door at Tamron Hall,” Goldberg told the audience. “This morning we had to evacuate the studio because there was a fire that we did not start. “We do not know who started it, we do not know what started it.”

As Hall explained on her eponymous show — which featured the talk show host in front of a black screen — “We had a grease fire in our kitchen.”

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“We have had had something that’s never happened on the five seasons of The Tamron Hall Show. We’re not able to air the show we had today,” she shared, noting that everyone — all staff and audience members — were “OK.”

While Hall planned to kick off Wednesday’s episode by discussing Lenny Kravitz’s steamy gym moment — the “American Woman” singer shared a video of himself working out in a sheer top and leather pants — the show instead kicked off with their very own “smokeshow,” Hall quipped.

“Our team reacted in incredible time as the extinguishers were going off. The team that puts together all of our shows with art and cooking and creative were in the back when this incident happened,” she added. “We were able to evacuate out of our studio and now we’re in the cleanup phase of our show.”

As for the women of The View, they each shared their own experiences with the harrowing incident. While evacuating, Hostin grabbed her phone first, though Goldberg went with her purse because “that’s your ID!”

Farah Griffin couldn’t help but joke about her “priorities,” noting that once she saw everyone was OK, “I was like, ‘Where’s my glam team?’ She quipped. “Like, leave [executive producer] Brian [Teta], but as long as hair and makeup is safe.'”

Navarro, meanwhile, was literally left in the dark.

“I was coming in from the airport and there was a Hot Topics meeting so I pressed the Zoom link, thinking I would find all of you on the Zoom, and it was dark, empty, and alarm and flashing lights,” Navarro, who commutes to the NYC-based studio from Miami, told her cohosts. “I thought, ‘Holy hell.'”