Joy Behar shocked her fellow "The View" co-hosts and the audience when she kissed actor Anson Mount during Wednesday's show.Co-host Whoopi Goldberg introduced Mount and the actor started walking towards "The View" table and greeted the hosts.When he greeted Behar, the co-host ended up kissing him on the lips.Co-host Sunny Hostin pointed at the pair and the other co-hosts laughed.CONSERVATIVE WATCHDOG TELLS FCC THAT 'THE VIEW' IS A DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATION, NOT A NEWS PROGRAMAfter Mount sat down, Behar said, "You know something? I'm old, but I'm not dead."ABC's "The View" co-host Joy Behar sits next to Anson Mount during the show on July 22, 2026.
(ABC/TheView)"That's good, Joy, because I am," Mount said.Behar said the last time Mount visited with "The View," he brought her flowers for her birthday and that it had never been the same between them.JD VANCE WINS GRUDGING PRAISE FROM JOY BEHAR ON 'THE VIEW,' WHO TELLS HIM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT"Well, I got married," he said.Behar addressed the kiss during the "Behind the Table" podcast on Wednesday, telling "The View" producer Brian Teta, "Well, all morning I've been hearing about Anson Mount, and I've been making the jokes about his name."Anson Mount participates in a Q&A during the "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival at The Indeed Theater at Spring Studios on June 14, 2025, in New York City.(Getty Images for Tribeca Festiva)"And then when he came out I just felt like kissing him," Behar said.Teta asked Behar if she had heard from her husband, Steve Janowitz.
The co-host said he texted her during the show and said, "Cut that out."Mount spoke to the co-hosts about his "Star Trek" series, "Strange New Worlds."CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE"It was my make-believe game when I was a child, there’s not a day that’s gone by I haven’t looked around and said to myself, ‘I’m from White Bluff, Tennessee.How did I get to be in the captain’s chair?’" he said ...