Meghan McCain has some takes on the co-hosts who replaced her on “The View.”
After McCain, 37, left the talk show at the end of Season 24 in 2021, she was replaced by two new co-hosts: Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro.
“It took a year and two people to replace me which makes me feel good, and I get to take that,” she said on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM show.
When Cohen, 54, asked the former talk show host if she knew Farah Griffin or had any thoughts, she used it as a chance to shoot down the family of the former communications director in the Trump administration.
“I don’t know her at all. The only thing I know about her is her family,” McCain said. “She comes from an extremely, extremely controversial background.”
Her dad is a very famous homophobe and racist who started birtherism,” she claimed. “He’s actually the person that invented Obama’s birtherism. So that’s what I know about her, and that’s not necessarily a reflection of her.”
The conservative personality said she “automatically” was not going to be in the same circles as Farah Griffin, 33, due to her family, specifically her dad, being “very, very known in political circles because of his extremism.”
But McCain went on to say she didn’t want to say anything “negative” in the wake of her own backlash from Sherri Shepherd.
“I don’t want to say anything negative about someone who’s doing that job right now,” she continued. “I swore I would never do, quite frankly, what Sherri just did to me.”
Andy Cohen asked Meghan McCain her thoughts on Alyssa Farah Griffin as a new co-host on “The View.”Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images
Ana Navarro was one of two co-hosts to replace Meghan McCain on “The View.”ABCShepherd, another former co-host on “The View,” went on “Watch What Happens Live” and threw shade at McCain. Cohen asked her who she was closest to from her days on the morning talk show, to which Shepherd responded: “Just everybody — not Meghan — but everybody else.”
McCain fired back at Shepherd in her SiriusXM interview, saying: “I don’t know Sherri Shepherd. She was on the show, like, 15 years before me when I was in high school. So I don’t know why anyone’s under the impression that we’re close friends. I think she has a new show coming out. She’s looking for publicity. A really easy way to get publicity is to try and fight with me.”
McCain concluded her choice comments on Farah Griffin by wishing her “the best of luck” as it’s a hard job that is only “going to get harder when midterms come.”
