Whoopi Goldberg revisits Patrick Stewart's invitation to join Picard

The View host pays tribute to her longtime friend, telling viewers that he died over the weekend.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 289,641 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (24,555).

Whoopi Goldberg Remembers Sir Patrick Stewart | The View

"We went way back, and I adored him," Whoopi Goldberg says of Sir Patrick Stewart in a tribute on The View. Announcing his death, she remembers both his range as an actor and the friendship they shared through Star Trek.

At the center of the short tribute is an invitation. Goldberg introduces footage from Stewart's January 2020 visit to the show, when he asked her to join the second season of Star Trek: Picard.

"I'm here with a formal invitation," Stewart tells her in the archive clip. Goldberg accepts, and the two embrace. Back in the studio, the panel applauds beneath a large photograph of the pair together in Star Trek.

The upload drew about 156,000 views in nine hours, already far beyond the audience a View Short usually reaches in its full first day. Its comment section was also substantially busier than usual, with viewers returning to the invitation and the embrace.

Goldberg closes by remembering Star Trek as one of the great events of her life. Of Stewart, she says: "He is, in a word, irreplaceable, really."

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The numbers

The tribute passed The View's usual full-day audience for Shorts within its opening hours, with comments also well above the usual first-day total.

the video's first day

usual first day here

24,555

this video

289,641

subscribers

1,720,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

629,690,285

views per day

497,046

typical day: 553,258

the video

views

156,416

likes

3,690

comments

188

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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3,330,000

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3,300,000

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2,990,000

This Morning

2,540,000

The View

1,720,000

Good Morning Britain

1,380,000

As of November 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.