Ana Navarro was officially made a permanent cohost. The ViewThe talk show is entering Season 26. Although the Nicaraguan-born political commentator has been a guest host since 2018, she had begun making appearances on the show as a contributor in 2013. Whoopi Goldberg announced that Navarro was being interviewed. “overqualified to be called our guest anymore.”
After a clip of Navarro’s best moments over the years aired, the talk show host said that it was now time to “finally [put] a ring on it and [make] it official.”She thanked the ABC Daytime viewers for their support and said she was glad to have had a great day. “read, heard, and seen”All of them. Although Navarro won’t appear full-time because of “other work commitments,”She lives in Miami with her husband, and has a wonderful life. “very clingy do,”She will be making more frequent appearances.
Navarro thanked the producers and gave a passionate speech on the representation of Latino immigrants.
“I’ve thought about it long and hard. As you all know, most weeks I’m on a plane at least four times a week, and I spent countless hours on planes, at airports, in hotels — sometimes it gets lonely,”She continued. “But I also know it’s a huge, enormous, incomparable privilege to be part of a 25-year institution. And whether people like it or not, whether some people acknowledge it or not, it is the relevance and the importance and the platform that The View represents.”
Navarro continued, “And I, and we at this table, have spent a lot of time talking about representation and saying representation matters. And that means that when a little Latina immigrant girl born in Chinandega, Nicaragua, who came to this country at the age of 8 as a political refugee and found her home here, gets the opportunity and the chance to have a platform — you grab it with both hands and you run with it.”
Watch Ana Navarro’s speech after being named a permanent co-host on The View.
Navarro posted on Instagram that the incident occurred after the cast’s trip to the Bahamas. There, the panel hosted a week of interviews. “Hot Topics,”That “sealed the deal”She accepted the role of permanent co-host.
“It felt like we’d become The View Ya-Yas, the sisterhood of the traveling mouths,”She wrote. “Sometimes we disagree, but we respect each other. Whoopi, thank you for sharing your wisdom. Joy, thank you for your guidance. Sarah, thank you for your happy sanity. Sunny, thank you for your encouragement.”
Navarro concluded her statement by telling her fans what she expected from them in the upcoming season.The View.
“You’ll get from me what I’ve always tried to be: a consistent and authentic voice -with a Latina accent- calling balls & strikes, and speaking truth to power and finding some humor in our crazy world. See you in September!”She was done.
Alongside Navarro’s promotion, Alyssa Farah Griffin was also given a permanent spot at the “Hot Topics”table and effectively took over the seat previously held by Meghan McCain, conservative commentator.