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Candace Cameron Bure In Final Negotiations to Join The View as Co-Host

After multiple guest-hosting stints on The View, Candace Cameron Bure and Paula Faris are in talks to join the show in a more permanent capacity, Variety reported yesterday.

According to the site, the Fuller House actress and the GMA Weekend co-anchor are in "final negotiations" to become co-hosts for Season 19, alongside veteran panelist Whoopi Goldberg and fellow newcomers Raven-Symone and Michelle Collins.

Per Variety, Faris would keep her GMA Weekend job, appearing on The View Monday through Thursday. Bure, meanwhile, is still figuring out her schedule, but could spend some weeks on The View in New York, and others on Netflix's Fuller House, which shoots through November in L.A.
Both stars — like Symone and Collins, who were announced as official co-hosts in June and July, respectively — have filled in at The View multiple times over the past few months. The show has gone through several casting changes since its premiere in 1997.


Bure made a memorable appearance on the series earlier this month, when she and Symone butted heads over the Oregon bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, and was then fined $135,000.

"I don't think this is discrimination at all. This is about freedom of association," the Full House alum said during the July 7 debate. "It's about constitutional rights. It's about First Amendment rights. We do have the right to still choose who we associate with."

Symone's response? "I refuse to associate with you right now!"

Candace Cameron Bure Makes Waves on The View

When actress Candace Cameron Bure defended on “The View” the Christian owners of an Oregon bakery who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding, an audible gasp from one of the co-hosts immediately followed.

Discussing the divisive case, the star revealed she doesn’t think what the bakery did amounts to 'discrimination.' It quickly became clear she was outnumbered on the issue.

“This is about freedom of association, it’s about constitutional rights, it’s about First Amendment rights,” she added. “We do have the right to still choose who we associate with.”

Bure argued the owners of Sweet Cakes By Melissa didn’t refuse to bake the cake simply because the customers were lesbians. In fact, she said, “they baked cakes for them previously.”

“They had a problem with the actual ceremony because that, the ceremony, is what conflicted with their religious beliefs,” Bure said.

Co-host Raven-Symone strongly disagreed, claiming the bakery discriminated against the couple based on their 'sexual orientation' and compared the case to past discrimination of black people.

Bure ended her argument by saying, “Here’s the other thing that I really wish we could do as a society, as a culture, as a country, is to respect that we have opposing views.”

Watch the exchange below:

Comedian Bone Hampton to Appear on The View this Thursday

Award-winning comedian Bone Hampton will appear on ABC's The View this Thursday, July 24. Hampton will perform his stand-up routine during the show's Sherri's Comedy Corner segment. The appearance marks Hampton's fourth appearance on The View - twice as a host on "Guy Day Friday," Co-Host during "Male Best Friend" Day, and once during Joy's Comedy Corner.

Hampton can also be heard in Nashville every Monday and Tuesday morning on "Mighty Good Day" on 760AM The Gospel and is part of the comedy tour "The Heavy Hitters". For tour dates visit bonehampton.com. This fall he will be headlining the GMA Dove Award comedy show during GMA Dove Week 2014.

Candace Cameron Bure Co-Hosted The View Today

This morning, Candace Cameron Bure joined her friend Sherri Shephard in co-hosting The View. They’ll be posting the episode at this link. She's currently featured on Dancing With The Stars.

Her dancing instructor, Mark Ballas, writes at She Knows of how difficult it was for them to be in the bottom two again this week on Dancing With The Stars.

The former Full House star tells People that she's okay knowing that not everyone is going to agree with her evangelical Christian beliefs:
"As much as you want to try and explain your position to people, sometimes at the end of the day it is not worth it.  I need to invest my time in my family and not trying to please everybody or getting them to see my own point of view."

As a contestant on this season of Dancing with the Stars, she has garnered praise and criticism for her conservative beliefs and her "boundaries" that have left her modestly clothed and with fully-dressed partners (even when pro dancer Mark Ballas wanted to show off his abs).

"They didn't show it on the show but the only reason was because I thought it might be a little uncomfortable for my children," Bure says of asking Ballas to keep his shirt on. "And funny enough, another one of the dancers told me his daughter texted him the day after he went shirtless for the first time and she was not happy."

Tamela Mann to Perform on The View

Grammy nominated vocalist Tamela Mann will appear on ABC's The View Tuesday, April 22. In celebration of co-host Sherri Shepherd's birthday, Tamela will perform her hit "Take Me To The King" for her friend and millions nationwide.

"Sherri is a dear friend, and I'm thrilled to be a part of her special day," said Tamela. "It's going to be a big celebration and time of fellowship, and I'm honored to be able to share my music with the ladies of The View and people across the country."

Amy Grant to Appear on The View and Fox and Friends

On June 20, six-time Grammy award winner Amy Grant will appear on ABC's "The View" to perform her next single "If I Could See." The appearance kicks off the beginning of a national television media blitz for Grant in support of her first studio record in a decade, How Mercy Looks From Here. Additionally, she will take to the outdoor plaza stage, performing on "Fox and Friends" June 22 and appear on ABC's lifestyle show "The Chew" on July 19.

How Mercy Looks From Here debuted at No. 1 on the Christian Soundscan and No. 12 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album has been declared by critics as a "vibrant," "glowing production" and one of the "best albums of the year."

TobyMac Appearing on 'The View' May 24

TobyMac will be performing on ABC's "The View" for the second time May 24 at 11 a.m. EST.

The six-time Grammy Award winner will be performing his Billboard Christian chart No. 1 single "Me Without You," off of his Billboard Christian No. 1 album, Eye On It, as well.

"It's been a seriously encouraging year already ... it's hard to believe Eye On It only came out eight months ago. It's my honor to write songs that turn people's eyes toward a God who loves them. 'Steal My Show' is not just a song I want to sing, it's how I want to live," the former DC Talk frontman said.

The 48-year-old has sold over 11 million records as a solo artist and around 20 million more with his group DC Talk in the '80s and '90s as well as countless Dove Awards and six Grammys.

TobyMac helped introduce hip-hop to Christian music in the late '80s and later with his group evolved into genres covering dance, pop, R&B, and rock before going solo in 2000.

Israel Houghton Featured on ABC's The View

Four-time GRAMMY Award winner Israel Houghton appeared on ABC’s “The View” live yesterday as part of a The King’s Men tour group interview and performance.  In a television first, Israel, along with friends Kirk Franklin, Donnie McClurkin and Marvin Sapp, performed a medley of their best-known songs on the same stage for the “The View” audience.  The appearance was in support of the national The King's Men tour launching Sept. 16 and produced by Live Nation Entertainment. The tour marks the first time these four GRAMMY, Dove and Stellar award-winning artists have toured together.

During the show, co-host Sherri Shepherd asks, “Israel, you have released 11 Christian music albums over 15 years - we sing a lot of your worship songs in church - and for the very first time you got a chance to record with your daughter Mariah.  How was that?”

Israel affirms that it was a special moment, recalling the recording of the song for his first live recording in five years with New Breed, Jesus At The Center, releasing Aug. 14.  “One of the songs we did was an old Bob Dylan song, ‘To Make You Feel My Love,’” says Israel.  “My daughter sang it with this purity – she’s 15-years-old, almost 16 – and it was amazing to look out and see 16,000 people all crying.”

To watch the whole interview and performances of ABC’s “The View” featuring “The King’s Men” and Jamie Grace, go to abc.com.