The View's Joy Behar receives talking to from bosses after exposing Sara Haines' secret 'lesbian romance'

The View’s Joy Behar was called into a gathering pinch bosses aft she ‘crossed nan line’ erstwhile she exposed cohost Sara Haines’ concealed lesbian romance unrecorded connected air.

The somewhat arguable host, 82, addressed nan little same-sex fling that Haines, 47, had successful assemblage while her parents were sat successful nan assemblage for Wednesday’s show.

Behar interrupted cohost Whoopi Goldberg, 68, to inquire if Haines was going to talk nan romance pinch her parents connected their upcoming quality connected nan program's Behind nan Table podcast.

She was criticized by her cohosts for ‘embarrassing’ Haines and was pulled up by bosses who told her nan remark was ‘not okay.’

‘Joy was blasted by her cohosts and higher-ups for her connected aerial remark astir Sara Haines’ lesbian romance,’ an insider told DailyMail.com. ‘She crossed nan statement successful position of relaying thing that was told to her off-air.

‘She besides crossed nan statement morally pinch her blimpish parents successful nan audience.

‘Joy has nary select astir days, but this is perfectly not okay and nan higher-ups person spoken to her.’

They continued: ‘Joy has apologized to her but that does not make it right. There are immoderate things that nan viewers do not request to cognize and Joy embarrassing Sara was unprofessional.’

The outburst occurred arsenic Goldberg was plugging nan podcast during nan extremity of Wednesday’s show.

'I person to inquire her a question,' Behar interrupted arsenic she turned to Haines. 'Are you going to bring up that lesbian narration you said you had backmost astatine Smith [College]?'

Haines started laughing while their different cohosts reacted successful shock.

When nan camera trim to Haines' parents, her father's rima dropped and her mother was smiling.

'Dad, earmuffs! Earmuffs!' Haines said arsenic she mimed pinch her hands complete her ears.

'That was off-air that she told america that,' Alyssa Farah Griffin reminded Behar.

Sunny Hostin past quipped: 'Now it's on-air.'

Haines made ray of nan awkward business and joked: 'It's a bully point my dada doesn't ever watch... But now he does.'

Goldberg added: 'Now he will.'

A abstracted root told DailyMail.com: ‘This was thing that Sara had shared pinch nan assemblage disconnected aerial 1 week prior, which is why Joy said it truthful freely.'

Haines grew up successful an 'extremely conservative' family and attended a left-leaning women's wide arts assemblage successful Northampton, Massachusetts.

She joined lawyer Max Shifrin successful 2014. The longtime mates stock children Alec, eight, Sandra, six, and Caleb, five.

She has been an on-and-off co-host ever since she joined The View successful 2016. 

Behar, who is worthy an estimated $30million, has been a fixture connected nan daytime sheet since 1997, barroom a little region betwixt 2013 and 2015. 

She famously doesn’t clasp backmost and antecedently accused Haines of being a concealed 'lesbian' erstwhile nan joined mother-of-three revealed that she has visited Cubbyhole - a lesbian barroom successful Manhattan.

'She's a closet lipstick lesbian,' she said connected an section backmost successful June. 

She besides opened up astir her ain views connected 'getting it on' pinch a woman.

Asked if she has ever had relations pinch a 'lady,' she replied: 'No, but someday I will... I'll do it successful my 90s!' 

The View airs weekdays connected ABC astatine 11 americium ET