Whoopi Goldberg began “Actin’ Up” when Miranda Lambert’s recent controversy arose Tuesday on “The View.”
The daytime show’s panelists were discussing the 39-year-old country singer scolding fans taking selfies during her Las Vegas residency show — when Goldberg had a showstopping moment of her own.
“I’m gonna stop right here for a second, I’m sorry,” Lambert said to her pianist Saturday, in line with a TikTok posted the next day. “These girls are frightened about their selfie and never listening to the song.
“It’s pissing me off a little bit bit,” continued the songstress, who had been partway through an acoustic performance of “Tin Man.” “Sorry, I don’t prefer it. In any respect. We’re here to listen to some country music tonight. I’m singing some country rattling music.”
“View” co-host Sunny Hostin, 54, sided with the concertgoers Tuesday, arguing that she’s “going to take as many selfies as I would like if I paid $757 for tickets.”
But Goldberg, 67, was clearly bothered by the support for the fans.
“You recognize what? Stay home,” Goldberg snapped. “In the event you’re going to spend $750 to come back to my concert, then give me the respect of watching me while I do my thing, or don’t come.”
Hostin defended herself by saying that she enjoys looking back on memories from live shows, prompting Goldberg to induce her to “activate the tv, girl.”
Goldberg then rose from her chair at “The View” desk and walked toward the audience while declaring: “I’m leaving y’all!”
The EGOT winner decided to do a mid-show selfie of her own.
“I would like to take an image with this marvelous woman, who’s 91. So, we’re going to do a selfie. Just me and also you,” Goldberg said to an audience member. “Will you push that button? We’ll be right back.”
“The View” hosts appeared to have been teasing in good fun, but several Lambert fans said they were upset by the three-time Grammy winner’s handling of the situation.
The fan who was taking selfies at Lambert’s show, Adela Calin, told NBC News that she felt like she was “back at college with the teacher scolding me for doing something incorrect and telling me to take a seat down back in my place.”
“I feel like she was determined to make us appear like we were young, immature and vain,” she continued. “But we were just grown women in our 30s to 60s attempting to take an image.”
Calin added that the selfie lasted “30 seconds at most.”
The Post reached out to Lambert’s rep for comment.
