never say never.
Rosie O’Donnell is open to returning to ‘The View’.
During an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” on Thursday, O’Donnell, 64, was asked if he would be interested in returning as a guest host, much like his former nemesis Elisabeth Hasselbeck did earlier this year.
“I’m going to be a guest host, but they haven’t asked me to. So we’ll see what happens,” the comedian replied.
O’Donnell also noted Hasselbeck’s conservative leanings.
“Interestingly, in the era of President Trump, I think she’s the perfect person that they want to spout rhetoric on TV, right?” the Emmy winner said.
O’Donnell appeared on The View from 2006 to 2007, and briefly in 2014 to 2015. She infamously clashed with Hasselbeck, 49, during the show.
In May 2007, the two had an argument about the Iraq War, and producers cut to a split-screen shot to show the two women, an act that still irritates O’Donnell.
“Are you still annoyed that the director did split screen?” Cohen asked.
“Yeah, I’m still annoyed,” she shot back. “Trust me, Mom knows how to hold a grudge.”
O’Donnell claimed last year that split-screen was planned.
“Our producer wasn’t a hands-on type of person… He wouldn’t have thought, ‘Let’s do split screen.’ It was something that was set up,” she said in a radio interview.
After this story, the “Sleepless in Seattle” star asked to be released from his contract with ABC.
O’Donnell currently lives in Ireland, where she moved with her 13-year-old child Clay in January 2025 after the 2024 presidential election.
She has been at loggerheads with President Trump for years, and their feud reached a climax in July 2025 when Trump threatened to revoke Mr. O’Donnell’s citizenship, something he was unable to do.
“The President of the United States has always hated the fact that I see him for what he is: a criminal fraudster and a sexually abusive liar who seeks to harm the nation for himself. This is why I moved to Ireland,” O’Donnell wrote in an Instagram post.
She will be in the United States this summer to perform her new one-woman play, Common Knowledge, on Broadway.
