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Barbara Walters: Biography

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Birth Place: Boston, MA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 09/25/1931, Libra
Profession: Broadcast journalist; anchor; TV host; producer

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Barbara Walters: TV Guide News

It's Off: Barbara Won't Spar with Star | Today's News: Our Take | 5/10/2008
Barbara Walters is declining to publicly engage with Star Jones after things heated up this week between the two. On Friday, Walters said she'd rather hang on to the good memories of her and Jones' days together on The View. "Star is going through a very difficult time right now," Walters told AP Radio, alluding to the dissolution of Jones' marriage. "I don't want to add to her difficulties." Oops, too late!Earlier this week, during an Oprah visit, Walters revealed that she and fellow View hosts lied for Jones about her significant weight loss. Jones in turns responded, "It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters... is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer... and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book."Walters claimed good intentions in detailing her affair with a senator, saying, "I put it in to show in great part how race relations have changed. This was 30 years ago, it was an African-American prominent man. And it would've... read more
Babs Admits to Affair With Married Politician! | Today's Top Videos | 5/7/2008
Yesterday, the infamous Barbara Walters appeared on Oprah to reveal some of her innermost secrets that she's written about in her new tell-all memoir. And one doozy (beyond the Star Jones/Rosie drama) she divulged was her secret love affair of two years with the U.S. Senate's first-ever African-American member thirty years ago. Whatever you do, don't make the same mistake Oprah did by calling this independent woman a "mistress" because that didn't go over well at all. Perhaps Babs would have preferred the term "lady friend." Or how about "extramarital activist"? "Concubine"? read more
Barbara Walters Gets Personal in Her Audition | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/6/2008
After five decades in TV news, Barbara Walters has finally written her autobiography. Audition: A Memoir (Knopf, $29.95) hits the stores May 6, the day Walters is on The Oprah Winfrey Show. "It will be unusual for me to be answering the questions instead of asking them," she says with a hint of nerves. Though she saved the details of her sizzling secret affair with the married Edward Brooke, the nation's first black U.S. Senator, for the Oprah appearance, the Queen of "Gets" sat down with TV .. read more
Barbara Walters Discloses Past Affair with Senator | Today's News: Our Take | 5/1/2008
In her upcoming memoir, Audition, Barbara Walters reveals for the first time an affair she had with Sen. Edward Brooke in the 1970s.She discussed her memoir on Oprah, during a taping scheduled to air on May 6. In a transcript provided to the Associated Press, Walters says the affair with Brooke, the first African-American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, ended before he lost a re-election bid in 1978.At the time, Walters was twice-divorced. Brooke was married, and has since divorced and re-married.When asked if she was in love, Walters replied, "I was certainly — I don't know — I was certainly infatuated. Infatuated. I was certainly involved. He was brilliant. He was exciting. It was exciting times in Washington." — J.R. Whalen read more
Barbara Walters Tells Barack He’s "Very Sexy" | Today's Top Videos | 3/31/2008
Babs, you little minx, you! Last Friday on The View, Senator Barack Obama made a guest appearance to talk about the serious issues he’s facing as a presidential candidate—namely how he feels about being 9th cousins with Brad Pitt. But what really caught us off guard was Barbara’s response to Obama’s modesty about his appearance. 78-years old and still workin’ it—you go, Babs! Watch it now! | More online videos read more

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Barbara Walters: Photos

The View, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Barbara Walters courtesy Steve Fenn/ABC

The View, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Bahar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck courtesy Steve Fenn/ABC

20 20, Hugo Chavez, Barbara Walters courtesy Donna Svennevik/ABC

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Barbara Walters: TV Listings

Barbara Walters: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Audition: Barbara Walters' Journey (Appearing)	2008	TV Show Series
Live to Be 150...Can You Do It? (Host)	2008	TV Show Series
That's The Way it Is: Celebrating Cronkite at 90 (Appearing)	2007	TV Show Series
Daytime Emmy Awards (Appearing)	2006	TV Show Series
Peter Jennings: Reporter (Remarks by)	2005	TV Show Series