Sara Haines did not hold back on The View when it came to discussing her father, Dick Haines, or his conventionally attractive looks.
“My dad’s hot and I say it all the time,” Sara, 47, said during the talk show on Wednesday, January 22. Alyssa Farah Griffin replied, “Your dad is hot.”
Sara doubled down, adding, “My dad’s hot. He just is.”
The conversation came during the “Hot Topics” segment, when The View hosts brought up Jack Schlossberg’s recent X post in which he compared Usha Vance, Vice President J.D. Vance‘s wife, to his grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
“True or false: Usha Vance is way hotter than Jackie O,” Schlossberg, 32, wrote. After receiving widespread backlash online for the post, the political correspondent continued to troll the internet.
“I’m a literal pervert. I called my grandmother hot … have I totally lost it? Jesus,” he wrote. “This kid will do anything for attention. Your grandfather would be ashamed. Seriously. Time to get a job.”
Joy Behar seemed to have a lot of thoughts on the topic.
“My grandmother, Antonia, her name was, she was 60, I can’t tell that she was hot,” Behar, 82, explained. “She never took her apron off, so how would I even know how hot?”
Sara, meanwhile, didn’t think there was anything wrong with the social media message.
“Even when it’s family, you have eyes, though,” she said.
Sunny Hostin also chimed in, noting that she too has a hot dad.
“You have a hot dad,” Sara confirmed. (Hostin claimed that some of her friends “always wanted to date” her dad.)
Sara then bought the conversation back to her own father.
“My friends, my whole life talked about my hot dad,” she continued, noting that The View producer Brian Teta finds it weird. “I’m not blind. I’m not attracted to him, he’s just hot. I can see him,” she continued.
She then got into specifics, recalling a past moment with a friend.
“We were walking up to my yard and my dad was mowing the lawn and had no shirt on,” Sara recalled. “My friend Emily was like, ‘Oh my God, who’s mowing your lawn?’ And I was like, ‘That’s my dad!’”
Haines’ dad is well-known among The View fans — Dick appeared on the “Behind the Table” podcast in October 2024 to talk about his daughter.
“I envisioned a different career path [for Sara],” he admitted, noting that he and wife Sandy Haines thought Sara would become a comedian. “I laugh at some of [her jokes].”
