Brooke Shields says she lost 'View' co-hosting gig to Jenny McCarthy
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Brooke Shields squirmed in her seat when she was asked about auditioning for "The View."
Shields, 54, appeared on "Watch What Happens" on Thursday night when a viewer called in asking if it was true she tried out to be a co-host on the ABC morning show in 2013 after Elisabeth Hasselbeck left.
"Yes," Shields told the caller before host Andy Cohen pressed her for more information.
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"I went through a week of being on the show and you know, I did all my homework, I take everything very seriously," she shared.
Shields said she was in the parking lot of the Hollywood Bowl when she received a call from one of the producers who told her they wanted to go with Jenny McCarthy.
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"I was like, OK, she's a friend, but you want one or the other," an uncomfortable Shields recalled thinking. "I think they were going for something different."
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McCarthy didn't last on the show for very long, leaving the program in 2014. She recently opened up about her time on "The View" in the explosive tell-all book "Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View."
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She told author Ramin Setoodeh she was "miserable" every single day she went to work.
“It really was the most miserable I’ve been on a job in my 25 years of show business," McCarthy, 46, admitted in an excerpt of the book published on Vulture.
She also said the producers tried to morph her into a conservative like Hasselbeck.
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"They did try to change me. They wanted Elisabeth back and I wasn’t Elisabeth,” the "Two and a Half Men" actress insisted. “I would literally have meetings before the show of them trying to input opinions in me to go against Whoopi. I was going to work crying. I couldn’t be myself. My fans were telling me, ‘Where’s Jenny? They aren’t letting you be you.'"