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The View panelists discussed pop star Olly Murs’ body transformation live on the air.
Joy Behar made a quip about preferring “not perfect” men over ripped body types.
“If you get a guy like Arnold Schwarzenegger, he’s going to leave you for the housekeeper anyway,” she joked.
The View‘s studio audience was primed to answer Fred-Armisen-as-Joy-Behar’s famous, “So what? Who cares?” question from Saturday Night Live after the comedian made on-air joke about Arnold Schwarzenegger that led to jeers.
During Tuesday’s show, the cohosts got into a Hot Topics discussion — prompted by pop star Olly Murs’ newly-defined muscles — about their personal preferences around body types. Behar ultimately agreed with colleague Sara Haines, who said that she didn’t like ripped physiques and instead preferred a more grounded, realistic body type.
“I like a chunky guy. I do, I like a pot,” Behar, who’s happily married, quipped.
The 82-year-old then observed that, “You have to be perfect if they’re perfect. I’m not perfect, and I’d like them to be legally blind, even. That helps,” as the audience laughed.
Behar wasn’t finished, though, and pushed the bit one step further.
“I mean, if you get a guy like Arnold Schwarzenegger, he’s going to leave you for the housekeeper anyway,” she exclaimed, referencing the Terminator actor’s affair with Mildred Baena, a member of his housing staff, that he admitted occurred during his marriage to Maria Shriver.
“Too soon! It’s only been 30 years!” conservative cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin exclaimed, while The View‘s studio audience could be heard booing Behar seconds after she made the joke.
Behar initially smiled at the reaction, but when she heard the boos, she asked, “What!?” before singling out some supporters in the crowd.
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“Thank you, my girls up there get it!” Behar said, smiling as she pointed to off-camera attendees.
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg — who previously collapsed during the episode over an agonizing Hot Topic about Donald Trump – then threw the show to commercial.
Schwarzenegger’s affair with Baena produced a child, Joseph Baena, whom the action star revealed in 2012 he hadn’t learned he’d fathered until eight years later. Joseph went on to compete on Dancing With the Stars season 31.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Schwarzenegger and Baena for comment.
The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.
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