Whoopi Goldberg Eyes $3.5 Million Deal With ‘The View’

Whoopi Goldberg is on course to bag a salary of $3.5 million should she hold onto her role as a moderator on the successful TV series ‘The View‘.

$1.5 million higher than the $2 million she received last season, the amount- if coughed up by ABC– would see her retain her position after she announced that she was to part ways with the show at the end of its current season.

Seems straight forward? Well…it isn’t. For, Goldberg’s request also comes with a number of conditions.

Sources close to the show reveal:

She wants this one ABC executive off the show. She blames this person for trying to turn The View into Good Morning America with the rotating hosts and contributors and doesn’t want that exec involved in the show any more.

She is tired of having to answer to people that she doesn’t feel like are worthy of their positions.

So she wants to be an executive producer of the show so that she has a seat at the decision-making table and can have more control over the things going on. 

She’s asking for no less than $3.5 million a year to return. She feels that she helped this show turn the corner again in the ratings and knows she plays a huge factor in its success.

She wants them to pay her what she thinks she’s worth, despite the fact the network is crying budget concerns.

Goldberg is credited with retaining the show’s viewership following a confusing casting period which saw her forced to watch nine different co-hosts come and go since Barbara Walters‘ departure in 2014.

The source adds:

Now that the core five have good chemistry and the ratings are going back up, Whoopi has been less grumpy.

‘She keeps telling the producers behind the scene: “See, this could work if they don’t start f***ing with us again!