Whoopi Goldberg insists she didn’t fart on ‘The View’.
The 59-year-old star appeared to let rip on the US talk show on Wednesday (10.12.14) during a ‘Hot Topics’ debate in which singer Ashanti was discussing whether or not she thinks people should get a flu jab but insists the audible noise that disrupted the debate was an unusual sound effect that she quickly made a joke about.
She said: "There was a sound effect that we had never heard before. I’m thinking, ‘Damn, that’s weird, what can I do?’ Oh, I know! I’m gonna pretend I let a little something go. As a joke.
""Now, these folks are emailing people, running up on people saying, ‘How do you feel about the fart that Whoopi did on ‘The View’?’ It’s a joke!
"I know you think that I don’t [make jokes] any more, I do, I make funnies. I don’t fart on air for real!"
Whoopi was previously reported to have broke wind while sitting on a sofa with ‘Homeland’ star Claire Danes and fellow host Joy Behar in 2011 and though her co-star appeared offended by a putrid pong, the actress insists that too was a joke.
On the show yesterday (11.12.14), she added: This is the second time I’ve covered something like this because sometimes I hear something and I think, ‘Oh, we got to do something to get attention from it,’ and so I try to move it and that’s the fastest ’cause the fart joke works [instantly] like that.
"So everybody relax, I didn’t fart on air, it was a joke."
The mysterious farting incident this week happened after a camera was firmly focused on Ashanti when a sudden explosion of air could be heard.
Whoopi then sat in her seat looking sheepish and embarrassingly said: "Excuse me! Oooh, oooh."
The panel and studio audience erupted into a gale of laughter and Whoopi then stood up, put her hand in the air and said: "Hold on for a minute."
Whoopi’s fellow panellist Rosie O’Donnell then walked around the desk and started to jokingly wave her hands up and down in a desperate attempt to rid the studio of Whoopi’s whiffy wind.
The other panellists joined in by picking up pieces of paper on their desks and frantically waving them up and down to try to exterminate Goldberg’s gas.
Whoopi then declared: "Oh, I feel so much better now!"
Whoopi Goldberg clears the air
