Conservative commentator Elisabeth Hasselbeck has revealed a tongue-in-cheek glimpse into her preparation for her latest round of appearances on “The View,” before traveling from her home in Nashville, TN, to New York City, where she is filling in for Alyssa Farah Griffin on the talk show.
Hasselbeck, 48, will join the likes of Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar on the ABC show for the entirety of the week—making a bold first appearance on March 2, when she quickly got into a debate with Sunny Hostin over her support for President Donald Trump.
After Hostin criticized Trump over the recent airstrikes on Iran, Hasselback—who was a full-time host on “The View” from 2003 to 2013—made clear that she would not speak out against the president, stating: “I proudly voted for Trump. Because the alternative was not great and we would absolutely be under the wrong power.”
The mother of three is no stranger to on-air confrontation—and revealed ahead of her trip to New York, where “The View” is filmed, that she was readily preparing to do battle with her on-air co-stars.
Before traveling to the East Coast for her week of filming, Hasselbeck shared an image of a children’s play set featuring the “armor of God,” which she joked she had been given by a friend as protection against the talk show’s hosts.
“My sweet friend gave me this for ‘The View,'” she revealed, while sharing a video from inside the kitchen of her $5 million Nashville mansion.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Hasselbeck noted that she had many other things to accomplish at home before departing for the Big Apple, including a pile of dirty dishes, adding that her other main resource she was taking with her to the studio was a heavily annotated Bible.
Still, Hasselbeck insisted during the first few minutes of “The View” that she was not there to make any enemies out of her co-stars, stating to viewers that she wanted nothing more than to have “civil discourse” with them.
“Civil discourse is not dead! We may have differences of opinion but we love each other and we’re stronger for it,” she said.
“We can hold our positions in one hand and each other’s hands in the other, and be able to live as Americans with the freedom that we have, and speak our hearts and minds. We get to do that all week.
“It might get a little spicy at times. But we do not hate each other. We love each other.”
Hasselbeck has known Goldberg and Behar for many years now, having appeared alongside both of them during her own time on “The View,” which was marred with multiple confrontations with other hosts, including Rosie O’Donnell and Barbara Walters.
In her 2019 book, “Point of View: A Fresh Look at Work, Faith, and Freedom,” Hasselbeck opened up about her departure from the show—admitting that she had been left stunned when producers revealed that they were not renewing her contract.
“I could not breathe—literally, could not breathe,” she recalled of the moment she learned that her time on the show was over. “I was bent over—shock, asthma, and betrayal all stealing my wind.”
She added: “Feeling a dose of betrayal and a whopper of confusion, I felt like the walls of the building were folding in on me.”
Despite voicing her upset over her exit from “The View,” Hasselbeck wasn’t away from screens for long—joining the popular Fox News series “Fox & Friends” as a co-host, starring on the morning show from 2013 until 2015, when she announced her retirement, citing a desire to spend more time with her kids.
Less than one year later, Hasselbeck and her husband moved their family from Greenwich, CT, to Tennessee, where they purchased a staggering home in Nashville for $2 million, although Realtor.com® estimates show that it is now worth upward of $5 million.
During a 2019 appearance on “Fox & Friends” with her former co-host, Ainsley Earhardt, Hasselbeck gushed about her new hometown, describing it as a place that offers “creativity, culture, and an awesome heartbeat for God.”
Soon after their move, the Hasselbecks sold their palatial Greenwich mansion for $4.56 million, having initially put it on the market for $4.8 million in September 2015.
The Hasselbecks’ former home sits on 1.5 level acres and features a pool, playhouses, covered porch, and entertainment terraces. Inside, the seven-bedroom, 7,600-square-foot house has high ceilings and custom millwork, front-to-back entry hall, marble fireplaces, and a mahogany library.
Eight years after the TV-famous family sold the property, it was put on the market again—changing hands in 2024 for the much higher price of $6.6 million, records show.