Joy Behar wasted no time reminding Lauren Sanchez that she was turned down for a job on The View not once, but twice, during her last appearance on the popular daytime show.
Lauren, 54, who burst into tears on Good Morning America earlier this week, joined the panel during Friday’s episode to promote her new children’s book The Fly Who Flew to Space, and admitted she felt “a little nervous” sitting at the table.
The former journalist, who is engaged to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, explained: “I have to tell you, it’s so funny, my hand was shaking and my sister looked at me and said, ‘You’re not auditioning this time, you’re a guest,'” as Joy, 81, took it upon herself to explain.
“FYI, Lauren auditioned for this show twice and the powers that be decided, ‘No, you’re not getting the job,’ but look at you now, I don’t think you needed the job!” the comedian said, as Alyssa Farah Griffin told the brunette, ‘You haven’t aged a day. ‘
Recalling her failed auditions, Lauren said: “The first time I did it, I think it was about 20 years ago, (I was) very young. I think they were replacing Debbie Matenopoulos at the time and I auditioned. It was a lot of fun.
Joy Behar wasted no time reminding Lauren Sanchez that she was turned down for a job on The View not once, but twice.
Lauren pictured sitting next to Joy during one of her auditions for The View in March 1999.
‘And one time… I saw the music video and I couldn’t believe it. They put my hair up, they made me dress a little more conservatively and after the show, Barbara Walters took me aside and asked me, “What are you doing?” And I asked her, “What do you mean?”
“She said, ‘If you’re going to fall, do it as yourself because if you don’t, you’re going to punish yourself twice,’ and that was incredible advice,” Lauren said, referring to the show’s creator, who died in December 2022.
Turning to Joy, she said, ‘And I don’t know if you remember this, I was going through a tough time, I was stressed out and you walked past me and said, ‘Keep your head up, girl,’ to which Joy jokingly replied, ‘I’m very kind. ‘
Her co-host Sunny Hostin later confirmed that she was also trying to get a job on The View at the time, saying, “You and I auditioned together during the Hunger Games round!”
Eager to congratulate Lauren, Joy told her: “It’s great that everything worked out for you, so we don’t have to feel guilty about not being on the show.”
Elsewhere in her interview, Lauren spoke about her fiancé, Jeff, saying, “I’m looking forward to spending my life with someone I respect and care deeply about, and someone who loves my kids.”
Asked about the fact that she “fainted” when he proposed in May 2023, Lauren said: “He literally looked at me and was like, ‘I think you’re a little shocked. ‘ He was like, ‘Take a deep breath,’ and I was like, ‘Are we engaged? ‘ and he was like, ‘Yeah, we’re engaged. ‘”
She also got teary-eyed when she spoke to The View panel about her dyslexia and how it inspired her to write her children’s book.
Lauren, pictured here on The View in March 1999, talked about some advice given to her by the show’s creator, Barbara Walters.
Lauren, pictured here in March 2023, gushed about her fiancé Jeff and her respect for him.
“After I wrote the story, I realized that it’s about my son,” who has dyslexia. I get teary-eyed every time I talk about this, so I’m sorry, but it’s really me.
‘I grew up with dyslexia, not knowing I had it, I couldn’t read. I was a sweet kid and I would sit at the back of the class and they would push me around.
‘I went to community college and there was this professor… I wanted to be a journalist, that’s all I wanted to be. I auditioned here and I wanted to write for the paper and she said, “Do you want to write?” I said, “I can’t write,” and she said, “Just write without worrying about punctuation or spelling.”
“And I handed in my paper and she looked at me and said, ‘You’re not stupid, you just don’t know how to write,’ and my life took off after that,” Lauren explained while fighting back tears.
“This book is for all those kids who are struggling in school and going through a tough time. It’s going to be okay, and for all the parents who have a child with a learning disability, that’s what I say: it’s going to be okay,” she added, as everyone applauded her.
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