The View hosts pulled off panel LIVE on air after testing positive for COVID

The View hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro have been dramatically pulled off air during a live broadcast after testing positive for COVID ahead of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Hostin and Navarro were broadcasting live Friday morning from ABC’s New York City studios, where they were scheduled to sit down with Harris in her first daytime appearance as VP. 

But the pair were dramatically ordered off set seconds before Harris walked out on stage, leaving producers scrambling. 

An employee of The View was heard yelling at both Hostin and Navarro, ordering them out as co-hosts Joy Behar and Sara Haines remained on stage. 

The show quickly cut to commercial, before Behar later explained that her co-stars had returned positive results from a last-minute test.   

‘Sunny and Ana both apparently tested positive for COVID. No matter how hard we try, these things happen,’ Behar explained.  

‘They probably have a breakthrough case and they will both be okay, I’m sure, because they are both vaccinated’.

A spokesperson from the Vice President’s Office told DailyMail.com: ‘The Vice President did not have contact with the hosts before the show. Her schedule today will continue as planned.’

The VP is expected to fly out of New York back to Washington DC, where she will meet with the Prime Ministers of Australia, India and Japan this afternoon.  

The pair were dramatically ordered off set seconds before Harris walked out in front of a live audience, leaving producers scrambling

A producer yelled at the co-hosts, ordering them to leave the stage just seconds before Harris was set to be introduced 

After news of Hostin and Navarro’s positive diagnoses, The View’s interview with Harris was delayed, causing chaos on the show. Behar began asking audience questions in a bid to kill time.  

‘Vice President Harris apparently is waiting backstage. Behar now taking questions from the audience. An absolute train wreck,’ The Hill columnist Joe Concha tweeted. 

Harris’ interview eventually went ahead, however she did not come out to the stag. The Vice President instead conducted her interview with Behar and Haines via video link from a room elsewhere at the ABC studios. 

The interview was supposed to take up a majority of the show, but was instead reduced to around 10 minutes.  

Harris addressed the COVID saga at the beginning of her chat, stating: ‘Sunny [Hostin] and Ana [Navarro] are strong women and I know they’re fine, but it really also does speak to the fact that they’re vaccinated and vaccines really make all the difference because otherwise we would be concerned about hospitalization and worse.’  

Harris did not come out to the stage, instead conducting her interview with Behar and Haines via video link from a room elsewhere at the ABC studios

She was subsequently given a series of softball questions about the ongoing pandemic, the current immigration crisis at the border and the exit from Afghanistan.  

It’s unclear why ABC’s COVID testing results were received at the 11th hour. It’s also unclear how frequently Hostin and Navarro had been tested for the virus in recent days.

The interview with VP Harris had long been in the works and had been vigorously promoted by the network in recent days.