‘If you have an opinion, keep it to yourself’

“You really have to mold how you say things,” the “Scrabble” host explained

Raven-Symoné has a good sense of humor about her time The view.

The actress and television personality appeared on the Thursday, October 3 episode of Sherri promote Scrabblethe game show she hosts on The CW. And while catching up with host Sherri Shepherd, the two reminisced about their previous jobs on the long-running ABC daytime series.

Display Viewers will recall that Raven-Symoné co-hosted the series from 2015 to 2016, while Shepherd was on the show from 2007 to 2014.

Asked what The view taught her Raven-Symoné – who is a co-host The best podcast ever with Raven and Miranda podcast – quickly joked: “to shut up.”

“To like it, not to talk. If you have an opinion, keep it to yourself,” said the That’s so Raven star said, before adding, “No, I’m just playing.”

But there was some truth in the Disney Channel alum’s statement.

Throughout its three seasons The viewshe was in the top spot more than once because of things she said, including a comment in headlines that she wouldn’t hire someone with a “ghetto name.” She also once argued against the idea of ​​putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, noting that she would have chosen Rosa Parks instead, who was “closer to the progress we are experiencing now.”

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Looking back on the blunders she made, Raven-Symoné admitted that her approach to the show was all wrong. “When I started doing the show, I said, ‘I’m going to make this like I’m talking to my best friends in my house.’ When I left the show, I said, ‘That’s a television show, live, with millions of people watching, that wasn’t a neighborhood conversation,'” she recalled.

“You really have to mold how you say things,” she added. “It’s live! It’s really hard. And it’s really hard to say anything on television, live or not, because people actually get clips and then later choose for themselves what it means,”

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Earlier this week, Raven-Symoné returned to The view where she told Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin that she still gets nervous when she sits at the table.

“As you know, every time I come here, I have to come to this job maybe 45 minutes early to say hi to everyone. And if I bring this up, I have PTSD — please don’t ask me any questions,” she said.

“But I love these cups!” she laughed as she took a sip of water. “Good cups this season!”

The comment prompted Behar to point out how the show has changed since then, moving to a more centralized focus on politics. But her former co-host disagreed.

“I used to get scolded a lot for not paying as much attention to politics,” Raven-Symoné replied.

But she’s paying attention now. “I watch it now for real entertainment,” Raven-Symoné said. “It’s absolutely amazing and there’s so many different ways you can go about it, but the one thing I wanted to say about it is you’re not sure who to vote for because certain policies work a certain way because yeah, yeah . There are some things I like about the Republican side and there are some things I like about the Democratic side, but ultimately I choose the person who best represents me as a human being to the rest of the world and how that looks like. “

The view airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.

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