The hosts of “The View” teased their colleague Sunny Hostin on Wednesday morning, after fellow talk show host Sherri Shepherd got excited discussing Hostin’s son. Ultimately, Whoopi asked Sunny if she'd be okay with Shepherd attempting to connect with him.
The topic arose during a conversation about Anne Hathaway’s “The Idea of You,” currently available on Prime Video, where she plays a 40-year-old single mother who starts a relationship with a 24-year-old boy band singer.
For the ABC hosts, the idea wasn't necessarily something they opposed, particularly when it comes to age differences.
“That whole concept should be trending because, sexually speaking … men and women peak — women peak older, sexually, and men peak younger,” Joy Behar commented. “So do the math, you know?”
In the meantime, Whoopi advocated for older men, stating that “they know what they're doing. You don't have to explain a lot of things. You may need to point things out, but you don't need to explain them.”
Eventually, Behar mentioned that, during Hostin’s appearance on Sherri Shepherd’s talk show, Shepherd became “crazy about” Hostin’s 21-year-old son, Gabriel. They even displayed pictures of him from Instagram, where he is without a shirt at the beach.
“I’m used to that with him but, yeah,” Hostin said, covering her face and laughing, staying mostly quiet on the subject. But, Whoopi made sure to slip in her question before they went to break.
“So you’re OK if Sherri calls him?” she teased, with Behar adding that Shepherd might actually do it.
'The View' is on weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.
