Rachel Campos-Duffy: Difference between revisions

Campos tried out three times for a co-host spot on the daytime television [[talk show]] ''[[The View (talk show)|The View]]''. After [[Debbie Matenopoulos]] left the show in 1999, Campos competed in an on-air try-out with [[Lisa Ling]] and [[Lauren Sánchez]].{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} Ling was eventually hired. After Ling's departure in 2002,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/every-the-view-cohost-since-the-shows-1997-premiere/|title='The View' Cohosts Through the Years and Why They Left|magazine=[[Us Weekly]]|author=Hautman, Nicholas|date=July 1, 2021|accessdate=October 18, 2021|archivedate=March 25, 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325204520/https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/every-the-view-cohost-since-the-shows-1997-premiere/}}</ref> Campos—who by then held her own "coffee talk" show with other Wisconsin housewives—again competed in a week-long on-air try-out, this time against [[Erin Hershey Presley]] and [[Elisabeth Hasselbeck]].{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} In November 2003 Hasselbeck was hired to replace Ling. In July 2013 when Hasselbeck left ''The View'' to replace [[Gretchen Carlson]] as the female co-host of ''[[Fox & Friends]]'', Campos once again tried out but [[Jenny McCarthy]] was hired to fill the spot.<ref>{{cite web| title = Jenny McCarthy to replace Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View| url = http://www.13abc.com/story/22842397/jenny-mccarthy-to-replace-eli| publisher = [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]| date = July 15, 2013| url-status=dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130908024329/http://www.13abc.com/story/22842397/jenny-mccarthy-to-replace-eli| archive-date = September 8, 2013}}</ref><ref>Rosenblit, Rachel (March 21, 2013). [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/abc-eying-replacements-joy-behar-view-article-1.1294244 "TV & Movies Who will replace Joy Behar on 'The View'? ABC eyes Kathy Griffin, Brooke Shields, Gloria Estefan and others as contenders"]. ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]'' (New York).</ref>