Joy Bihar asks Sarah Haynes about past ‘lesbian relationship’ live on ‘The View’: ‘It was off-air that she told us’
Joy Bihar stuck her foot in her mouth when she asked about her co-star Sarah Haynes’ alleged ex’s “lesbian” experiences — on live television and in front of her parents!
The 82-year-old dropped the intimate bombshell during “Hot Topics” on “The View” on Wednesday.
While co-host Whoopi Goldberg, 68, was plugging Haynes’ upcoming appearance on the program’s “Behind the Table” podcast, Behar bravely refrained from publicizing their colleague’s alleged college romance with another woman.
“It’s crazy, but Sarah is on the podcast today with her fabulous parents, who are here with us today,” Goldberg told the live studio audience and viewers at home as the camera panned to Heine’s parents in the crowd.
That’s when Behar jumped.
“I have to ask him a question,” she interrupted. “Are you going to bring up that same-sex relationship you said you had, with Smith [College]?”
Haynes, 47, seemed taken aback by the question – but everyone, including his parents, laughed it off.
“Father, earring! Ears!” He shouted at his mother and father.
Their “View” co-star Alyssa Farah Griffin, 35, reminded Behar, “It was off-air that she told us,” as Sunny Hostin, 56, joked, “Now it’s on-air!”
The women and the audience erupted in laughter as Haynes quickly dealt the damage.
“It’s a good thing my dad doesn’t always see,” she joked, as she appeared to forgive Behar’s slip of the tongue that seemed to be all in good fun.
The Post has reached out to a representative for “The View” for comment.
Despite growing up in a conservative household, Hines is no stranger to the LGBTQ+ community
In 2016, he revealed that he was part of a gay volleyball league in college with his brother, who is gay.
He told TV Insider in 2016, “I grew up in a very conservative family in Iowa and didn’t come away unaffected by it. But I went to Smith College, which was left-leaning, and I replaced my brother once, who is gay, all gay. Men’s on a New York volleyball team and never left the league.
“So now I have more gay friends than straight friends. All that combined and it left me in the middle of nowhere. I am a melting pot of faith.”
Despite her alleged same-sex relationship in college, Haynes is married to a man and went on to say “I do” to Max Shiffrin in 2014. The couple has three children: sons Alec, 8, and Caleb, 5, and daughter Sandra, 6.
“The View” airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC