Whoopi Goldberg Accepts Oscar Apology
NEW YORK — Whoopi Goldberg has accepted an apology from producer Gil Cates for not including her in a montage featuring Oscar hosts during Sunday's Academy Awards telecast. Cates called her Tuesday and "talked about the fact that he had made an oversight, pure and simple.

He said, `You know I love you,'" Goldberg said Wednesday on ABC daytime talk show "The View."




Goldberg, who called Cates a "great gentleman," accepted his apology.

She said she has "moved on" since choking up on Monday's show when her fellow co-hosts discussed how she was left out of the clip.

The 52-year-old actress-comedian hosted the Oscars in 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2002.

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I watched a clip of her sisters on the show honouring her and her reaction

Good to hear she received an apology

Mach said:

Considering she did 4 different shows how was she over looked? This was NOT an accident.

Graycap23 said:

Yeah ... overlooked mmm hhmmm

She is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel). She has won two Golden Globe Awards and two Saturn Awards for her performances in Star Trek Generations and Ghost.

Mach said:

Not to mention the first African-American and woman to ever host the Oscars. Overlooked, my ass. . .

SCNDLS said:

I think also the 1st Oscar host that won an Oscar as well ...(?)

Mach said:

Yes, that's true too.

Graycap23 said:

Makes me SICK. What a woman--I wouldn't have let the guy get off so easy.

INSATIABLE said:

Maybe ... she knows HIS actions ( or lack there of ) speak far louder then her words ever could

(?)

Mach said:

And that's why she's a far better person than I. It hurts me just reading about it.

I don't think this is a P&R topic now that I am done bout it

Moving to GD

Mach

The producer also said, "Steve Martin wasn't in the montage, either. Not just Whoopi."

Good to hear. pfft.

I love Whoopi and that was cool what Barbara said on Extra about the whole situation.

Whoopie is a classy lady. She has a natural dignity about her that I like a lot.

How many others who hosted multiple times were not in the clip?

JustErin said:

I think they said Steve Martin. But from a historical standpoint Whoopi was unique for various reasons so why not include her?

SCNDLS said:

I'm not saying that she should have been overlooked. I'm just curious as to who else was overlooked.

JustErin said:

Yeah, I know, I was just sayin'.

52??