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|  Whoopi Goldberg: The View?
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Barbara Walters announced on Wednesday morning's chatfest that Whoopi Goldberg has been chosen to succeed the long departed Rosie O'Donnell as moderator of the femme-fueled talk show when it officially kicks off its 11th season Sept. 4.
"She's brilliant, she's funny, please join us in welcoming Whoopi Goldberg," Walters said, as Goldberg walked onstage.
"Can I handle it?" Goldberg asked. "I hope so. I love this show. I love watching it, I love coming on it, I love you guys.
"It's wonderful."
In accepting the job, Goldberg said she would not temper her edge, which has gotten her into trouble in years past, but that she will do her best to abide by the rules of television.
"I know there are words you cannot say—I won't say them," she said.
"We are very excited," Walters said prior to the announcement, which didn't come until the end of the show. "This is a very big day for us."
In a statement released after the show, Walters laid on the superlatives for Goldberg, calling her "brilliant, funny and irrepressible" and "an enormously popular and talented star."
"This is going to be a great new chapter for The View," she said.
The feeling was echoed by Walter's sole remaining original cohost.
"We can't tell you how happy we are," Joy Behar told Goldberg, who tested and proved her chemistry with Walters & Co. in a series of guest-hosting stints in the wake of O'Donnell's sudden departure last May.
Last week, as sources confirmed Goldberg was in final talks to join the show, she even received a positive endorsement from Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who will remain the lone View host on the right.
"I loved working with Whoopi Goldberg," Hasselbeck told People.
"She is soulful, has a world of experience to bring to the table and I don't sense any sort of political agenda," she added, making a not so thinly veiled reference to O'Donnell. "She is so funny, but at the same time, she is one of the most thoughtful people that I've met."
With news of Goldberg's hiring leaking last week, Wednesday's announcement was hardly a surprise. The 51-year-old Oscar winner, who currently hosts the syndicated morning radio show Wake Up with Whoopi, emerged as the frontrunner in a group that included outspoken fellow comics Roseanne Barr and Kathy Griffin.
Goldberg's addition might not be the last. Sources said last week that another stand-up comic, Sherri Shepherd, was also in negotiations to join the show.
That status of those talks is not known. Shepherd was also being considered as a regular, ostensibly commandeering the slot that's remained opened since Star Jones Reynolds' 2005 exit and restoring the cohost count to five—at least until Hasselbeck goes on maternity leave in November.
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