Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd on The View

It's been two months since Rosie O'Donnell walked away from The View, but now speculation is rife that Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd are about to hop into the hot seats.Next week a formal announcement is expected that the two comedians will join the ABC daytime gabfest, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Refusing comment on the report, network spokesman Karl Nilsson tells PEOPLE, “There is nothing to announce. That is my official statement.”

ABC Daytime president Brian Frons also told Variety, "We have no closed deal" with Goldberg.

After eight tumultuous months – culminating in an uncomfortable-to-watch on-air spat with costar Elisabeth Hasselbeck – O'Donnell bolted from the show one month before her one-season contract was due to expire.

Recently, Goldberg, 51, Shepherd, 40, and Kathy Griffin, 46, have been mentioned as the chief possibilities to join Joy Behar, Hasselbeck and Walters at the table.

As for O'Donnell, Friday's New York Times reports that next spring she will appear in a brief New York revival of the 1920's stage musical No, No Nanette. She will play the role of Pauline, a wisecracking maid.

Oh shit! Rosie's in another musical. Bitch thinks she's the white Whitney Houston, always trying to sing. I miss Rosie. I like Sherri, she's funny, but I feel like Whoopi's too reserved. Anywho, I haven't watched the View before Rosie and I haven't really watched it since. Should I care? Heh.

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