Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for laughing at ANTM model falling off runway 15 years ago: 'One of th...

Goldberg apologized to cycle 14 contestant Alexandra Underwood, though she maintained that the oftenmeme'd pendulum runway moment was still funny to her. Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for laughing at ANTM model falling off runway 15 years ago: 'One of the funniest things' Goldberg apologized to cycle 14 contestant Alexandra Underwood, though she maintained that the oftenmeme'd pendulum runway moment was still funny to her. :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/JoeyNolfiauthorphotoba4923fec03a4027868306485696ef41.jpg) Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at .

Goldberg apologized to cycle 14 contestant Alexandra Underwood, though she maintained that the often-meme'd pendulum runway moment was still funny to her.

Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for laughing at ANTM model falling off runway 15 years ago: 'One of the funniest things'

Goldberg apologized to cycle 14 contestant Alexandra Underwood, though she maintained that the often-meme'd pendulum runway moment was still funny to her.

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After finding herself caught up in the ongoing *America's Next Top Model* reckoning, *The View* cohost Whoopi Goldberg has publicly apologized for laughing at a former *ANTM* contestant's expense on Tyra Banks' modeling reality show.

In response to finding out that Netflix's new *Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model *docuseries included brief 2010 clip of Goldberg laughing at cycle 14 contestant Alexandra Underwood falling off of a runway plagued by moving pendulums, the Oscar-winning *Ghost* actress offered an apology to the model on Wednesday's live episode of the talk show.

"Here's something I want to do, because in this documentary there's a clip from our show, where I had showed the ladies this thing. Now, this was, to me, one of the funniest things I had ever seen in my life," Goldberg, 70, said as old footage played of her on *The View* laughing at Underwood's spill — which saw a giant pendulum knock the model off of a runway during the cycle 14 competition.

"You still say that," panelist Sara Haines added, which Goldberg confirmed.

Tyra Banks on 'America's Next Top Model' and 'Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model'.

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"I do. I know, but I wanted to apologize, because there's a person who got knocked off there, and her name is Alexandra Underwood from cycle 14. I'm sorry I laughed at this," Goldberg said. "I couldn't help it, it was funny as hell. But, I am telling you it's one of the funniest things, if I had to point to something, it is one of the funniest thing I've sever seen."

Haines again cut in to save Goldberg's apology, hugging Goldberg as she quipped, "What she means is she's sorry she's still laughing about it!"

Guest cohost Savannah Chrisley jumped in to add, "Back then, I'm sorry, we're held to a different standard now. People tip-toe a lot more in today's day and age," which prompted Goldberg to clarify her words again.

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"I have fallen down. You have to take it when people are laughing, but this is maybe 10 years ago, and she's a grown-up now, a grown woman, maybe she's got kids, and I just wanted her to know that I wasn't laughing [at her], I was laughing because to me people slipping and falling [is funny]," Goldberg said.

Comedian Joy Behar finished the segment by voicing a long-standing adage: "When I fall, it's tragedy. When you fall, it's comedy."

* *has reached out to Underwood for a response.

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*The View* cohost's words join a wealth of *ANTM* personalities who also spoke out about the show. *Reality Check *includes multiple interviews with Banks, former judges Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker, and Miss J. Alexander, as well as multiple contestants and producer Ken Mok.

Topics covered include allegations of sexual harassment and instances where models were tasked with darkening their skin to portray women of different races in photo shoots.

EW previously conducted a 20th anniversary oral history on *ANTM* with 14 past contestants speaking out on shocking moments from the program, including the switching-races shoots that took place on cycles 4 and 14.

"I kept saying, 'You guys are putting me in blackface,'" cycle 13's Jennifer An previously told EW, alleging that the show's team pinned her hair "so they could 'fro my hair out" to complete her evolution into a woman with African heritage. "They definitely didn't show any of that footage."

In a statement to EW at the time of the 2023 interviews, a spokesperson for Banks said that the intention of the shoots were to combat an industry where "lighter skin and straight hair were pervasive beauty standards," which "perpetuated deep insecurities within women." The spokesperson maintained that such shoots were "meant to be a moment celebrating and spotlighting underrepresented ideologies of beauty — textured hair and darker skin — on a global scale."

*Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model* is now streaming on Netflix.

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