Historian and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. had a special surprise in store forWhoopi Goldbergwhen he visitedThe View.
When Gates then announced that Goldberg had another distant relative, she gave a hesitant look toward the camera.
“Is it you?”
Tony Gonzalez and Whoopi Goldberg.Taylor Hill/Getty Images; ABC
“He is smokin'!
“Sunny Hostinexclaimed as the rest of their costars began to laugh.
“How about that for a Christmas present, huh?”
Goldberg simply shook her head and laughed in response.
At the end of the broadcast, Goldberg encouraged her newfound relative to stop by the show sometime.
“Cousin Tony, come see me here!”
“We’d like to have you here atThe View, Tony Gonzalez, come on!”
