diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
index 90f629a40b6..3a50bd2e0a3 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
@@ -4595,7 +4595,7 @@ public abstract class com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewGroupManager : com/facebo
 	public fun getShadowNodeClass ()Ljava/lang/Class;
 	public static final fun getViewZIndex (Landroid/view/View;)Ljava/lang/Integer;
 	public fun needsCustomLayoutForChildren ()Z
-	public final fun removeView (Landroid/view/ViewGroup;Landroid/view/View;)V
+	public fun removeView (Landroid/view/ViewGroup;Landroid/view/View;)V
 	public synthetic fun removeViewAt (Landroid/view/View;I)V
 	public fun removeViewAt (Landroid/view/ViewGroup;I)V
 	public static final fun setViewZIndex (Landroid/view/View;I)V
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewGroupManager.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewGroupManager.kt
index 0156a7745a7..ebbdbeb598a 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewGroupManager.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewGroupManager.kt
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ constructor(reactContext: ReactApplicationContext? = null) :
     parent.removeViewAt(index)
   }
 
-  public fun removeView(parent: T, view: View) {
+  /**
+   * Expo overrides this function GroupViewManagerWrapper.kt`, which is a replacement view manager
+   * adding support for delegates receiving callbacks whenever one of the methods in the view
+   * manager are called.
+   */
+  public open fun removeView(parent: T, view: View) {
     UiThreadUtil.assertOnUiThread()
 
     for (i in 0 until getChildCount(parent)) {