“The View”'s Elisabeth Hasselbeck explains why she'll never return to “Survivor”: 'Solid no, every single time'
“The View”'s Elisabeth Hasselbeck explains why she'll never return to “Survivor”: 'Solid no, every single time'
Joey NolfiThu, March 5, 2026 at 2:20 PM UTC
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck on 'Survivor'; Hasselbeck on 'The View' in 2026Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS Photo Archive/Getty; ABC
Controversial conservative personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck would rather debate Hot Topics every day with the ladies of The View than skin another pig in the Australian outback on Survivor, thank you very much!
The Survivor and View alum, who rejoined the latter program earlier this week as a five-day guest cohost, has revealed why she'll never return to the reality TV competition that made her famous, 25 years after she placed fourth on Survivor season 2 in 2001.
In a new interview with The View's companion podcast, Behind the Table (below), Hasselbeck fielded a question from producer Brian Teta about whether she's been asked to return to Survivor.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg on the former's 'View' return dayCredit: ABC
"They have," Hasselbeck confirmed, before explaining that she'll never go back to the show. "Solid no. Solid no, every single time."
Teta pressed her on if they asked her to be part of the current Survivor 50 season, and the 48-year-old Republican paused before she answered: "I think, maybe, there was an indirect ask. I think I'd trained them to know [I'd say no]."
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She then explained her reasoning, telling Teta, "I don't think I could leave the kids. I barely want to miss a [sports] game today that I know is going on."
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Teta inquired if she'd want to "skin a pig again" on the reality show, and Hasselbeck laughed as she doubled down: "No, I can not!"
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Survivor for comment.
Hasselbeck, who was a permanent View cohost from 2003-13, also remembered flying to Australia to film Survivor season 2 — and told Teta that her flight marked a key moment for her ahead of competing on the show.
"I literally went in with two skills. I had nothing. I didn't camp, I didn't know anything," she said of her life as a shoe designer before Survivor. On the aircraft, she "took out my shoelaces and practiced tying knots. I had a book! I learned how to fish from a book and tie knots, which was our structural support [at camp]."
While she won't again do battle with nature's elements on Survivor, Hasselbeck has shaken the Hot Topics table this week on The View: she sparred with Sunny Hostin over voting for Donald Trump, said "all lives matter," and compared protective COVID pandemic masks to ICE agents wearing masks to shield their identities during immigration raids.
Hasselbeck has also been critical of The View in recent years, particularly in January 2025, when she slammed both Joy Behar and the show as "sinking" entities after Behar criticized Carrie Underwood for performing at Trump's second inauguration.
Listen to Hasselbeck reflect on Survivor in the Behind the Table podcast above.
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