Whoopi Goldberg let off a huge fart during a serious debate on 'The View'.

The 59-year-old star let rip on the US talk show on Wednesday (10.12.14) during a 'Hot Topics' debate in which singer Ashanti was discussing whether or not she thinks people should get a flu jab.

The camera was firmly focused on the 34-year-old singer when a sudden explosion of air could be heard.

Whoopi then sat in her seat looking sheepish and embarrassingly said: ''Excuse me! Oooh, oooh.''

The panel and studio audience erupted into a gale of laughter and Whoopi then stood up, put her hand in the air and said: ''Hold on for a minute.''

Whoopi's fellow panellist ROSIE O'DONNELL then walked around the desk and started to jokingly wave her hands up and down in a desperate attempt to rid the studio of Whoopi's whiffy wind.

The other panellists joined in by picking up pieces of paper on their desks and frantically waving them up and down to try to exterminate Goldberg's gas.

Whoopi then declared: ''Oh, I feel so much better now!''

Rosie joked: ''You know those breakfast burritos, they kill us every day.''

Whoopi added: ''They kill you, I tell ya.''

Ashanti quipped: ''It was the flu shot, I told you.''

Whoopi then managed to turn the stinky situation into a serious part of the programme by continuing the discussion on flu jabs.

She said: ''Now, I have gotten a flu shot because I have to tell you, I think everyone should get one.''

This is not first time Whoopi has managed to stink out a studio as in 2011 she broke wind while sitting on a sofa with 'Homeland' star Claire Danes and fellow host Joy Behar, who was particularly put out by the putrid pong.