The View’s Sunny Hostin is BOOED by the audience – and mocked by her co-hosts – for comparing ‘sex symbol’ Raquel Welch to Kim Kardashian

The View co-host Sunny Hostin had a rude awakening after she suggested that Kim Kardashian was a modern equivalent to the late Raquel Welch on Thursday’s show.

The contention was so absurd that The View’s audience erupted in boos for Hostin, while her co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg ribbed her for thinking that the 42-year-old reality star was comparable to iconic actress, who died on Wednesday at 82.

Whoopi kicked off a segment paying tribute to the One Million Years B.C. star for the show’s Hot Topics section.

‘We were so heartbroken to hear of the passing of one of the world’s most enduring sex symbols — the fabulous Raquel Welch,’ Goldberg said. ‘Sail on, Raquel. Sail on.’

No comparison: The View co-host Sunny Hostin (R) was shouted down by her co-hosts Joy Behar (L) and Whoop Goldberg on Wednesday when she tried to compare Kim Kardashian to Raquel Welch

Icon: Welch, who died on Wednesday at 82, was famed as a sex symbol after a string of revealing performances starting in the mid-1960s; pictured in 1967

Wrong answer: After Behar said that ‘They don’t make any sex symbols like that [anymore],’ Hostin replied, ‘Well, Kim Kardashian is —’ before she was silenced; Kardashian seen in May 2022 in NYC

Behar added, ‘They don’t make any sex symbols like that [anymore].’

But Hostin lost the audience almost as soon as she started to speak.

‘Well, Kim Kardashian is —’ she began to say as Whoopi shouted out, ‘No!’

Joy was equally dismissive and waved away the idea while boos poured out from the audience.

Hostin’s mouth shot open and she put a hand over her chest while looking as if she was shocked by how resoundingly everyone on set disagreed with her.

‘Turning, turning! The audience is turning,’ Behar said as they tried to get the show back under control.

Goldberg was so flustered at the comparison that she couldn’t even formulate a full sentence.

‘That’s not even — you can’t even put them in the same — I’m not even — look, I’m moving on,’ she said in exasperation.

Scandalized: Hostin’s mouth shot open and she put a hand over her chest while looking as if she was shocked by how resoundingly everyone on set disagreed with her

Moving on: ‘Turning, turning! The audience is turning,’ Behar said as they tried to get the show back under control. Goldberg was so flustered at the comparison that she couldn’t even formulate a full sentence

‘Now she’s ticked off!’ Behard added to applause from the audience.

While Kardashian initially shot to fame through the release of a sex tape, and she isn’t afraid to share scintillating views of herself, the co-hosts and much of the audience thought Welch clearly had the stronger claim to being a sex symbol.

Welch’s first major role was in the science fiction thriller Fantastic Voyage, but she followed it up with the prehistoric adventure film One Million Years B.C., which featured her in nothing but a deer skin bikini for its duration.

Though she famously had only three lines in the entire film, the image of her in the bikini became iconic after it was featured on the film’s poster.

The poster was also featured in The Shawshank Redemption as a covering Tim Robbins’ character used to hide the tunnel he dug to escape the eponymous prison.

Subsequent roles played up Welch’s newfound status as a sex symbol, including the 1967 British comedy Bedazzled.

She starred in it as the personification of Lust, who was sent to tempt a regular man (Dudley Moore) by the devil (Moore’s comedy partner Peter Cook).

Welch also put her sex appeal up front in the cult film Myra Breckinridge (1970), based on the novel by Gore Vidal. She played the post-op version of a transgender woman with radical plans for the future of humanity.

Not in the same class: While Kardashian shot to fame through the release of a sex tape, and she isn’t afraid to share scintillating views of herself, the co-hosts and much of the audience thought Welch clearly had the stronger claim to being a sex symbol; seen in November 2022

Star-making turn: Welch’s first major role was in the science fiction thriller Fantastic Voyage, but she followed it up with the prehistoric adventure film One Million Years B.C. (pictured), which featured her in nothing but a deer skin bikini for its duration

Sizzler: Welch also put her sex appeal up front in the cult film Myra Breckinridge (1970), in which played the post-op version of a transgender woman with radical plans for the future of humanity

The movie was a flop and was savaged by critics, though some fans have warmed up to it in recent years.

The strong reaction on The View to comparisons of Welch and Kardashian overshadowed co-host Ana Navarro’s complaint about the coverage of Welch’s death.

‘In every mention I saw in the news about Raquel Welch — nobody mentioned that she’s Latino,’ Navarro said. ‘She was a Latina trailblazing actress from Bolivia.’

Although Welch was born in Chicago — Jo Raquel Tejada — her father was an engineer hailing from Bolivia, while her mother was an American of English ancestry.

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