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The View: Behind the Table

All Hail Queen of Christmas Darlene Love

The View: Behind the Table

ABC News

Entertainment News, News, Tv & Film

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Just ahead of her ninth performance on "The View," Darlene love joins executive producer Brian Teta to look back on starting her holiday tradition of performing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on "The View" after its nearly 30 year history on "Late Show with David Letterman." She looks back at how she first teamed up with her special guest this year Stevie Van Zandt, how she met Cher early on in the career and how her title the "Queen of Christmas" came to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Brian Tetta, executive producer of The View.

0:02.9

It's Thursday and I'm here with the Queen of Christmas,

0:05.8

Darling Love.

0:07.3

This is Behind the Table.

0:09.5

["Darling Love"]

0:20.0

All right, so we are here with royalty.

0:23.0

We are here with the Queen of Christmas, Darling Love.

0:25.0

How are you, darling?

0:26.0

I am so great.

0:27.0

That's wonderful.

0:28.0

I am as happy as you'll ever see me in a year

0:30.0

because we just came from taping tomorrow's show

0:32.4

where you performed two of your classic songs.

0:35.4

First of all, the most important one,

0:37.0

Christmas Baby Please Come Home.

0:38.8

Now, as I talk about a lot,

0:40.4

I used to work at the late show with David Letterman.

0:42.4

And that show, it was a Christmas tradition like no other.

0:46.0

As Dave used to say, it was not Christmas

0:48.0

until you've heard Darling Love sing this song.

0:50.0

My first job there, I was Paul Schafer's intern.

0:53.0

I know.

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