September 3, 2026

Kathie Lee Gifford’s Brutal Truth: Why She Thinks ‘The View’ Has Lost Its Way and the ‘Vicious’ Trend That Changed Daytime TV Forever – News

Gifford brought up the daytime talk show when host Tomi Lahren asked Gifford if she feels the public is more divided now.

Kathie Lee Gifford called out “The View” as being more “vicious” than it used to be years ago during her appearance on the “Tomi Lahren Is Fearless” podcast.

The TV show personality told host Tomi Lahren that people are “meaner” now in general. YouTube/@TomiLahrenIsFearless

“There’s just more of us — and we’re meaner now,” she said. “People at least would pretend to have some manners. Now, there’s a viciousness.”

“I mean, I used to be able to go on‘The View’ and talk to Joy [Behar] and Whoopi [Goldberg] and a lot of the other people there —Debbie Matenopoulos and I are still good pals — and never had a problem, you know, with anybody because they weren’t trying to … I don’t proselytize everything.”

“I share my faith, but I don’t say, ‘You’re going to go to hell if you don’t.’ I don’t do that, you know?” she continued. “I want people to have a little bit more heaven in their life than hell.”

Gifford also observed of the current TV landscape, “I mean, everybody seems like they’re just miserable people now.” YouTube/@TomiLahrenIsFearless

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