“That is who I am named after," she added. Behar also shared that it was her maternal grandfather who suggested she go by "Joy" (which he apparently explained as “La Gioia,” or “The Joy ...

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“That is who I am named after,” Behar said. She noted that her maternal grandfather suggested the entire family call her Joy, saying he’d refer to her as “La Gioia” (aka “The Joy” in ...

"It’s like before you were born, did you know anything? No. It’s the same thing after you die. I believe that." ...

Behar mistakenly opened a package this morning thinking it was something she purchased, only to find a pair of binoculars with the ability to take photographs.

Every family has secrets—just ask Joy Behar. As Behar told producer Brian Teta, she was named after her paternal grandmother, who lived in Turin, Italy. “I was born Josephine, named after my father’s ...

Joy Behar earned herself a scolding from co-host Ana Navarro on Friday’s The View when she made a NSFW quip about Donald ...

The View co-host Joy Behar has opened up about the origins of ... Victoria Occhiuto in 1942 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to a family of Italian descent. Her mother, Rose (née Carbone), was a ...

Santa Claus came early to Joy Behar’s house — and now she’s paying the price for it. The comedian took a moment during Friday’s episode of The View to ask her cohosts if she was in the ...

Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar came to the show to see Whoopi play Miss Hannigan, the villain in Annie, but things did not go smoothly during the performance. While Whoopi continues to moderate The ...