The View's Sara Haines Quips 'Dad, Earmuffs!' When Joy Behar Reveals Her 'Lesbian Relationship' in College

Sara Haines’ parents were seemingly in for a surprise on their recent visit to The View.

During the Oct. 30 episode of the ABC talk show, Whoopi Goldberg announced Haines’ parents were in the audience before Joy Behar brought up a college relationship she allegedly had with a woman.

"It’s crazy, but Sara is on the podcast today with her fabulous parents, who are here with us today," Goldberg, 68, shared, referring to the show’s Behind the Table podcast, before cameras cut to Haines' parents sitting in the audience.

“I have to ask her a question — are you going to bring up that lesbian relationship you said you had or not?” Behar, 82, asked. “Back at Smith [College]!”

Haines, 47, appeared surprised by the question but ultimately laughed it off. She jokingly added, “Dad, earmuffs! Earmuffs!”

“That was off-air, she told us that,” Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in before Sunny Hostin added, "Now, it's on-air!"

Haines seemingly took the comment in stride and joked, "It’s a good thing my dad doesn’t always watch."

“Now he will!” Goldberg responded.

While Haines has not publicly discussed her college romance before, the television personality opened up on an episode of The View in May about dating a coworker before marrying her husband Max Shifrin.

"I did dip in the company ink when I was single," Haines admitted. "There are right ways to do this, and wrong ways. Don’t do it in a department where there’s power dynamics. I dated someone in a complete different wing of the building, I did not deal with him daily." 

She continued: "He was a lawyer, so of course when he told me, I had to disclose this to HR, I was like, what? We’re a thing, right?"

Following her workplace romance, Haines met her now-husband Shifrin on a dating app after she created a profile for a segment on Good Morning America.  According to Haines, despite its challenges, she was determined to "participate" in the dating world.

She echoed similar words years later while sitting beside Shifrin as they shared their love story.

“I believe you have to create your own luck, so I thought I’m not running into my boo at a produce department or tripping on him on a street, like all the rom-coms told me I would, so I need to add some effort here,’” she told Yahoo! Lifestyle in 2019.

Shifrin, who admittedly “had no idea” who Haines was, came across her profile on OkCupid, and the two began dating in 2012. The couple went on to wed in 2014 and are now parents of three kids: Alec Richard, Sandra Grace and Caleb Joseph.

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