Never say never.
Rosie O’Donnell is open to returning to “The View.”
During an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” on Thursday, O’Donnell, 64, was asked about whether she’d be interested in returning as a guest host, much like her former nemesis, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, did earlier this year.
“I would be up to guest host, but they haven’t asked me. So we’ll see what happens,” the comedian replied.
O’Donnell also remarked on Hasselbeck’s conservative leanings.
“It’s interesting, in the time of Trump, I think she’s the perfect person they want on TV spouting their rhetoric, you know?” the Emmy winner said.
O’Donnell appeared on “The View” from 2006 to 2007, and again briefly from 2014 to 2015. She infamously clashed with Hasselbeck, 49, while on the show.
In May 2007, the two argued about the Iraq war and the producers cut to a split-screen shot to show both women, a move that still peeves O’Donnell.
“Are you still annoyed that the director went to the split screen?” Cohen asked.
“Yeah, I’m still annoyed,” she shot back. “Believe me. Mommy knows how to hold a grudge.”
Last year, O’Donnell alleged that the split-screen had been planned.
“Our producer [was] not an on-the-fly kind of guy … he wouldn’t have been like, ‘Let’s go to a splitscreen.’ That was prepared,” she said in a radio interview.
After the saga, the “Sleepless in Seattle” star asked to be released from her contract with ABC.
O’Donnell currently lives in Ireland, having moved there with her 13-year-old child, Clay, in January 2025 after the 2024 presidential election.
She has quarreled with Trump for years, but their feud hit a fever pitch in July 2025 when he threatened to rescind O’Donnell’s citizenship, something he is unable to do.
O’Donnell hit back, writing in an Instagram post, “The president of the usa has always hated the fact that i see him for who he is – a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself – this is why i moved to ireland.”
She will be stateside this summer to perform her new one-woman show, “Common Knowledge,” on Broadway.
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