After Rosie O’Donnell’s departure is ‘The View’ set to loose another co-host?
Whoopi Goldberg has signed up to return to small screen comedy, in a new ABC pilot titled, ‘Delores and Jermaine’. Goldberg will be starring opposite Jermaine Fowler in the pilot, which will film in New York where the actress has another high profile gig, as a co-host on ‘The View’.
Whoopi Goldberg will play a grandmother in a new ABC pilot
Described as an ‘Odd Couple’ for the new generation. Goldberg will play a strict, football loving, ex cop grandmother, whose slacker grandson, played by Fowler, moves in with her. The script has been written by comedian Fowler and is said to be based on his own experiences.
Goldberg will executive produce the pilot along with her partner Tom Leonardis and writer Danny Chun, who helped pen the pilot with Fowler.
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Of course Goldberg is also a co-host on popular ABC daytime series, ‘The View’, but her sitcom aspirations reportedly haven’t gone down well will those high up on the talk show. After Rosie O’Donnell departed from the show last week, Page Six reports that ABC execs blocked Whoopi attempting to also make an exit and instead the pilot will be filmed around her commitments with ‘The View’.
Goldberg is said to have one year left on her contract with the talk show and she is the only co-host from last season to be continuing on the show's panel.
Speaking to Fox News on Tuesday, Goldberg tried to down-play any drama saying, “I’m trying to get on ‘Empire’ and ABC has a show that they want me to do…I’ve always been able to come and go as I choose. It’s been in the contract to allow me to go and make movies if I wanted to or do something if I wanted to.”
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Adding, “But it’s a lot of work to go and do two or three jobs at the same time. I’m getting older, and I don’t want to work that hard. So we’ll see how it all works out.”
Regarding her commitment to ‘The View’, Goldberg also said, “I’m very happy. I’m working. I never put down the fact that I have a really good job, but I also have bosses. They make decisions . . . sometimes you don’t like them and you have to live with them.”
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