Whoopi: Manilow will appear on 'The View'

NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Whoopi Goldberg says Barry Manilow is expected to appear on the New York-based show "The View" in the future -- and sit with panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Goldberg said on Wednesday's show that "View" executive producers Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie turned down a request from Manilow's camp, asking that the singer not be seated with Hasselbeck during a planned visit Tuesday to promote his new CD, "Greatest Songs of the Seventies."

Goldberg, the show's moderator, said Manilow didn't appear after Walters and Geddie invoked the show's standard "you don't sit with one, you sit with none" policy.

"We practice free speech here," co-host Joy Behar added.

Media reports quoted Manilow describing Hasselbeck's conservative views as dangerous and offensive.

"I know there's a lot of talk and everybody's made some peace and Barry is going to come and he's going to be with us at some point," Goldberg said. "It wasn't yesterday. It wasn't today, it will happen in the future."

Not addressing the Manilow situation directly, Hasselbeck said, "We operate, I think, as courageous women who sit here every day and love one another through our differences, not despite them and I think that's a wonderful thing."