A plug for marriage?
A discussion Wednesday on “The View” about how you can decline an invite to be a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding led to a surprising admission about certainly one of the co-hosts.
Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and Alyssa Farah Griffin went across the table sharing their bridesmaid tales — and the the reason why they feel it’s acceptable to opt out of somebody’s big day.
“I needed to turn down one. The dress was so hideous,” confessed Hostin, 54. “I like a marriage — but I’m more of an expert wedding crasher … The typical cost of being in a marriage for a bridesmaid is like $1,800, and also you’re doing a job.”
Behar, 80, then offered a tip on how you can politely say no to a marriage party invite.
“I used to be asked to be a bridesmaid after I graduated highschool, and I hated the dress, similar to yours,” she motioned to Hostin.
“And I said, ‘Look, I can’t. I can’t afford this,’” Behar recalled. “That’s what you say.”
Haines, 45, then asked an unusually quiet Goldberg, 67, if she had ever been a bridesmaid.
“I don’t go to weddings,” the EGOT winner, who has been divorced 3 times, bluntly declared.
Nonetheless, Behar reminded Goldberg that she attended the red-headed comedian’s wedding to her second husband, Steve Janowitz, in 2011.
“Yours is the just one I went to,” Goldberg agreed with Behar. “I like the explanation you bought married: Not simply because you were in love, but since you guys desired to make sure that that, you recognize, you had any person in case any person had to drag the plug.”
“Right? Isn’t that what you said?” Goldberg asked, because the audience nervously laughed.
“And I assumed, ‘Love is great, but practicality is the whole lot,’” she added.
The Post reached out to a rep for Behar for comment.
Goldberg also made headlines Thursday when she abruptly interrupted herself to starkly ask Griffin, “Are you pregnant?”
“No,” replied the previous White House director of strategic communications, 34, who appeared stunned because the query looked as if it would come out of the blue.
“Oh my god! You’ll be able to’t say that when my mother-in-law is here, who’s been dying for me to get pregnant!”
