The View co-host Joy Behar kicked off Wednesday’s show by addressing the “conspiracy theories on the Internet” that Goldberg will host the Oscars.
Goldberg has been missing from The View for the past several weeks, due to an alleged battle with pneumonia.
Just four days before the 2019 Oscars, social media is abuzz with speculation that The View‘s Whoopi Goldberg has secretly been tapped to emcee the (currently hostless) broadcast.
An Oscar winner herself for Ghost in 1990, Goldberg has previously emceed the ceremony four times, most recently in 2002.