‘I SAID WHAT I SAID!'
The View guest LeVar Burton breaks silence after he’s caught making major blunder on show
LEVAR Burton has broken his silence after being caught making a major blunder while appearing as a guest on The View on Thursday.
Fans have come to his defense, as well – showing him support and sending him love.
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During the recent broadcast, the ex-Jeopardy! guest host made feelings known during a heated discussion on book banning.
The moment happened after The View host Joy Behar asked him about the current banning of books happening in the country.
LeVar nodded along and grunted his disapproval, and then Joy asked him to give a full "reaction" to all of it.
While the producers of the show were quick to bleep it out, LeVar gave her a serious look and just slammed it all as "bulls**t."
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The View fans were shocked by his cursing on the show, with one tweeting: “Oh my #LavarBurton said ‘bulls**t’ not my Lavar…”
Another wrote: “I heard that!! Bull shiggedy!”
On Friday, LeVar broke his silence about it all with a quote-tweet of The View’s tweet from the moment.
While the show ended up cutting out the bleeped-out word during his response to Joy, LeVar wrote of his overall answer: “I said what I meant and I meant what I said!"
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Fans sent him some love in the replies, with one telling him: “Yes you did!! Point Blank Periodt!!!”
A second said: “Well said sir, damn well said.”
“Good, don’t apologize,” a third tweeted. “It's the truth.”
The View captioned its tweet with the LeVar clip: “On the push to ban some children’s books, @levarburton tells #TheView, ‘I’ll be absolutely candid and honest.
“‘It’s embarrassing that we are banning books in this country; in this culture; in this day and age.’
“‘‘Read the books they’re banning. That’s where the good stuff is!’”
Prior to asking for his reaction, host Joy had said during the discussion: “Over the last few years, there has been an ongoing push to ban more children's books.
"Especially about race, sexuality, and basically American history."
LeVar is best known for hosting the education kids program, Reading Rainbow, which taught reading skills and offered book recommendations.
Recently, fans were hoping he’d take over as the host of Jeopardy! after the passing of longtime emcee Alex Trebek.
LeVar’s best known for hosting the education kids program, Reading Rainbow, which taught reading skills and offered book recommendations.
Recently, fans were hoping he’d take over as the host of Jeopardy! after the passing of longtime emcee Alex Trebek.
The show brought him on for a short period as a guest host but ultimately decided to have Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings as alternating hosts on the show.
Who of those two will be given the permanent role has not yet been revealed.
In an interview shared last week, LeVar slammed Jeopardy! and its disgraced producer Mike Richards for the “distasteful” way they snubbed him from the job.
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It started with him being given a guest spot for episodes that aired during the Olympics, which fans believe contributed to lower ratings than they would’ve wanted.
LeVar said he also partially agreed with some fan’s thinking that he was “duped by the process” a bit, saying “it was not a competition to find a new host, really, because the fix was always in.”
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