A bakery refused to make a birthday dessert for Whoopi Goldberg due to her politics — and the owner reacts
The proprietor of Holtermann’s Bakery asserts that rather than Goldberg’s political beliefs, she turned down the ‘View’ host’s request due to problems with her boilers.
This year’s Whoopi Goldberg birthday treat was both bittersweet and memorable.
The TV personality said that the bakery that produced her birthday treats first refused to take her order, speculating that it was due to her political beliefs, while celebrating her 69th birthday on The View on Wednesday, November 13. This assertion was later refuted by the company, which the host declined to identify but which Entertainment Weekly identified as Holtermann’s Bakery.
Following an hour of festivities, during which Goldberg gave out her favorite items to the crowd and her friend James Monroe Iglehart sang the title number from Broadway’s A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical.
Before disclosing that she had trouble getting the cherry-topped dish from the Staten Island bakery, Goldberg revealed that her mother loved the dessert, which is a trifle-shaped delight with layers of sponge cake, Bavarian cream, and fruit, as a child.
As the audience gasped, the actress clarified, “Now, I should tell you, Charlotte Russe has no political leanings, and the place that made these refused to make them for me.”
The audience laughed as her co-hosts also reacted strongly to the revelation. Sunny Hostin asked, “Oh, really?” and Sara Haines instantly spat out her bite.
Goldberg clarified, “They claimed that their ovens had malfunctioned and other things, but people still went and got them, which is why I’m
