The View co-host Sunny Hostin says she had a near-fatal expertise whereas filming the present.
Hostin, 56, defined in the course of the speak present on Friday, June 20, that she had a powerful allergic response to meals that Debbie Matenopoulos dropped at the present’s set. Matenopoulos, who was a bunch on The View from 1997 to 1999, introduced dishes from her new cookbook GREEK.ish on Wednesday, June 18.
“She has this excellent meals, Greek meals,” Hostin defined. “I’ve a horrible allergy to walnuts. As I’m consuming the meals, Alyssa asks, ‘Are these walnuts in right here?’ And she or he says ‘Sure.’ So I panic instantly.”
Hostin added that she wrote a “demise notice” to co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was horrified. “She responds, ‘Oh, no!’” Hostin stated. “And I’m [executive producer] Brian [Teta] and he’s like, ‘Is every thing OK?’ No, it’s not.”
Fortunately, the present’s medical workforce was greater than ready and intervened in time.
“What was nice was, our Disney nurses are like superheroes,” Hostin stated. “Nurse Jan got here in with an EpiPen. She was testing me. I had Benadryl. I used to be scared.”
Griffin then stated she hadn’t really learn the “demise notice” but.
Regardless of her very severe allergy, Hostin does have loads of snacks and meals she will take pleasure in. “My cohosts at The View make enjoyable of me, however I eat Funyuns,” Hostin defined whereas talking solely to Us Weekly in August 2024. “I believe it’s type of an odd factor, however I eat Funyuns. It’s not nice for the breath, so I’ve mints.”
Hostin enjoys the onion ring chip — a go-to childhood snack — the most effective when she dips them into scorching sauce, which will get her some odd stares on set.
Along with her deep love of Funyuns, Hostin additionally has a deep appreciation of her mother’s house cooking, which incorporates numerous genuine Puerto Rican delicacies. The TV character is an avid lover of orzo con calamari (rice and calamari) and alcapurrias, that are a type of fritter.
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“It’s made with yuca and it’s, like, a fritter and it will probably have something inside. So you can put crab meat inside, you possibly can put beef inside, you possibly can put hen inside,” Hostin defined. “My mother will make that for me on my birthday to today.”
She additionally stated that if she may select just one meal as her last one to eat, she is palms down going with a lobster roll however extra particularly one from Nancy’s Restaurant in Martha’s Winery. “I might in all probability eat about 4 of them once I’m on the Winery, which is the place [my] first e-book [Summer on the Bluffs] takes place,” she defined. “It’s my first cease once I get off the ferry. I get a lobster roll.”