Sunny Hostin: Unrecognizable in The View Season 28 Promo Pic!

Brand new episodes of The View.

Brand new look for one of the talk show’s opinionated co-hosts.

Ahead of Tuesday’s Season 28 premiere of this long-running program, ABC released the following promotional photo of Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin.

Can you spot the reason why it created quite a stir on social media?

As you can see immediately, Hostin has MUCH shorter hair than she had in the past… perhaps changing up her appearance in response to her youngest child going off to college.

She’s an empty-nester now.

She has more time to focus on her style.

We mean… just compare the Sunny Hostin above to the one who posed on the red carpet just one month before The View returned to the air on September 3:

Yup. This really is the same person.

“Sunny is gone??” one social media actually asked upon looking at the first photo posted here, prompting another to correct this individual by saying she is on “the far left, next to Joy.”

Added another fan:

“Didn’t recognize you on the group picture. You look absolutely 100% fabulous, my love.”

As for the substance of The View Season 28?

“We are excited to get back to the table to dive into the topics that our viewers really care about,” said executive producer Brian Teta.

“The breakneck pace of the news cycle fuels our co-hosts opinions, resulting in some pretty incredible conversations.

“The show really thrives during presidential election season, and with our move to our new downtown studio for season 28, just two months before Election Day, I think the best is yet to come.”

Here is a look at the guests lined up for this opening week and also the next:

Wednesday, September 4: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (author, “Lovely One: A Memoir”)

Thursday, September 5: Katie Ledecky, the most decorated American female Olympian in history (author, “Just Add Water”)

Friday, September 6: The Political View with Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.)

Monday, September 9: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.; author, “The Art of Power”)

Tuesday, September 10: Venus Williams (author, “Strive”); Taylor Frankie Paul and Mayci Neeley (“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives”)

Wednesday, September 11: TBA

Thursday, September 12: Kathryn Hahn (“Agatha All Along”)

Friday, September 13: Joe Locke (“Agatha All Along”); Lauren Sánchez (author, “The Fly Who Flew to Space”)