The View executive producer Brian Teta scolded co-hosts for including his wife in discussing marriage highs and lows when he reportedly told them not to.
Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas discussed former first lady Michelle Obama’s interview with CBS Mornings Gayle King, where she professed that her marriage with former President Barak Obama wasn’t always perfect.
Michelle conveyed that people today, especially the younger generation, glamorize marriage but don’t know the reality.
“We’ve been married for 30 years,” Michelle explained on the show. “If I fell out with him for 10 and we had great 20 years, I’d take those odds…This day in age, marriage is more about the dress and the dresses and the proposal and the honeymoon and all the stuff around it. Young people aren’t ready for the real of marriage.”
Haines, who has been married for eight years, began the deep discussion by stating she and her husband have conversations about what marriage should look like. Hostin conceded that the first five years of her marriage were “pure hell.”
“You have that change in independence, where you become a ‘we’ instead of just ‘me,'” she shared. “They say the three things people fight about the most are finances, kids and sex. I would say that’s absolutely true.”
Hostin then acknowledged Brian’s wife, Heather, in the audience.
“Oh, hi, Heather. This is our EP’s wife,” Hostin clarified.
Behar asked how long she and Brian have been married and Heather answered, “Almost 19.”
“How many were great?” Behar asked.
“They’re all great in different ways,” Heather sweetly replied.
Behar commented that Brian ordered his wife to answer the way she did.
After Hostin jokingly asked if he paid her to respond that way, Brian voiced his disapproval of them including her in the discussion.
“I said specifically, under no circumstances go to my wife in the audience,” Brian stated.
Hostin defended herself, saying, “I did not hear that.”
Griffin told Brian, “You knew we were going to!”
