Overview

• Whoopi Goldberg is absent from The View this week to receive an honor for her memoir, Bits and Pieces, at the Taobuk Taormina International Book Festival in Italy.
• Joy Behar will serve as moderator in Goldberg’s place for this week’s Hot Topics discussions.
• The View will observe its annual summer hiatus beginning June 30, pausing new broadcasts over the Independence Day holiday.
• Goldberg posted on Instagram to thank festival organizers for the “extraordinary environment” and the honor bestowed on her book.
• New episodes of The View will resume on July 7, when Goldberg rejoins co-hosts Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin.