The View panel seemed markedly totally different on Tuesday when co-host Sunny Hostin was noticeably absent from the present as a result of a significant household milestone.
Sunny’s co-host Whoopi Goldberg shared that the rationale for her absence was in order that she may very well be there for her son Gabriel on his commencement day.
A milestone celebration
“So, we now have to let you know that Sunny is out this week as a result of she’s attending our son’s school commencement,” Whoopi joked. “He is graduating from Harvard!”
She added that he was “so great” and that they have been all extremely pleased with the 22-year-old. “We knew you might, and now you probably did,” the Ghost actress beamed. “So, yay for you!”
Sunny took the week off to journey to Massachusetts, the place Harvard is positioned, and can spend her time celebrating Gabriel’s achievement. In her absence, Ana Navarro has been filling in, becoming a member of the panel with Whoopi, Pleasure Behar, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin. Sunny will return to the present on June 2.
Giving again
© InstagramGabriel has been working laborious at Harvard, not solely on his research, however with the Ivy League Mentoring program which connects school college students with deprived highschool youngsters. He spoke concerning the necessary work on Good Morning America in 2023, and shared how integral his mother and father have been in his life.
“I keep in mind after I was eight years outdated, I used to be saying, ‘I need to get into the Ivy League. I need to go to Harvard.’ And I am so grateful that I had mentors within the type of my mother and father in my life, and so they have been all the time there to encourage me and all the time assist me in pushing previous what’s [been done] and reaching extra,” he mentioned.
Sunny welcomed Gabriel in 2002 along with her husband, Emmanuel Hostin. The couple additionally share a daughter, Paloma, who was born in 2006.
Mom-son duo
© Getty Photos for NetflixHer son by no means fails to make her chuckle, and the duo appeared on Leisure Tonight for a Q&A session collectively to share perception into their candy household.
“I am undecided if individuals understand how a lot you sporadically dance, like on a regular basis,” Gabriel quipped. When requested if he ever watches Sunny on the small display screen, he joked, “By no means! I am kidding.”
The psychology pupil made headlines in September 2023 after he was concerned in a daunting accident whereas driving an electrical skateboard; Sunny opened up concerning the second she found he was in peril on an episode of the Behind the Desk podcast.
© WireImage“[My husband] Manny received the decision first. Gabriel likes to get round Cambridge on his electrical skateboard,” she mentioned.
“He received hit by a automobile, and he flew over the hood of the automobile, and since he was not sporting the helmet that I purchased for him the one method to sort of defend his head was to land on his proper shoulder, which he dislocated and we consider is considerably fractured.”
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