Joy Behar touches Whoopi Goldberg’s breast during live episode of The View: ‘That was my breast!’

“If you don’t stop touching me, I swear,” Goldberg joked earlier in the episode.

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Joy Behar touches Whoopi Goldberg’s breast live on ‘The View’.Credit: 

 

A new threat just breached the frontline defenses of The Whoopi Goldberg War Room™ on live TV: a military offensive spearheaded by an emerging threat known as The Joy Behar War Room™.

Echoes of battle lingered in The View‘s airspace after a brief commercial Wednesday afternoon, as Goldberg welcomed audiences back to the program amid an armed conflict with her cohost.

“If you don’t stop touching me, I swear,” Goldberg said with a smirk on her face as the camera focused on her in the moments after the ad break.

Behar then cut in, laying bare the key intel her CIA-level team apparently collected from Goldberg on the international stage.

“I recently found out that Whoopi is very ticklish,” the 82-year-old said to the show’s audience. “Just saying. Watch.”

Then, without much warning, Behar launched a missile — otherwise known as her hand — across the Hot Topics table, aimed straight at 69-year-old Goldberg’s chest.

Upon contact, Goldberg recoiled, and Sara Haines clutched her own chest after being hit with emotional shrapnel.

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Joy Behar reaches over to touch Whoopi Goldberg’s breast on ‘The View’.ABC

“I know this is going to come as a shock,” Goldberg exclaimed. “That was my breast!”

Behar could be heard saying, “Oh well,” in the background, as her colleague assessed damage she sustained on the battlefield.

“She just pushed it onto the other side,” Goldberg said. “Listen! We have guests!”

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The cohosts then collected themselves and called a truce before welcoming guests Jenny Slate and Michelle Williams for an interview.

In other Behar-related news, cohosts Haines and Ana Navarro revealed last week during a live show that Behar calls them “slut” and “whore” in personal time.