Is "The View" Going Posh?

Today on “The View,” Barbara Walters confirmed that the show’s two new hosts will be announced this week.

This news comes after London’s “Daily Star Sunday” reported that Victoria Beckham is in the running pending a two-week tryout. Walters said today that Beckham’s hosting stint was “news to us” and then went on to unequivocally shoot down the rumor by saying, “She is not. We wish her well. We think she’s wonderfully exciting but that is not who we’re going to have on.”

Most sources now agree the additions will be Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd.

I hope this means Bravo is on the phone with Kathy Griffin right now…

And by the way, for those of you still trying to place where you know Shepherd from, she co-starred with Sara Rue and Andy Dick in “Less Than Perfect,” but she’s probably best known as Robert’s partner Judy on “Everybody Loves Raymond.” And because it’s in my contract to mention any “Friends” references (Okay, it’s not in my contract, I just like to.), Shepherd played Rhonda, the museum tour guide, in “The One With Phoebe’s Uterus.” Her big line was, “I’m Rhonda. And these aren’t real”…