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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... 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... 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... 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
80th Annual Academy Awards | Today's Top Videos | 2/22/2008
Now that the strike’s finito, there’ll be plenty of star power strutting down the red-carpet wearing outfits worth more than most people's cars. And ABC is giving you an extra special treat right before the show begins: Barbara Walters Oscar Special. Yes, the View co-host will be getting personal with the likes of Ellen Page, Vanessa Williams, Harrison Ford and Miley Ray Cyrus (not to be confused with Miley Cyrus). And side note—Jon Stewart will be hosting the main event, so get... read more
Barbara Walters Previews Her Most Fascinating List | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 12/5/2007
When her first 10 Most Fascinating People special aired, Barbara Walters wondered whether anyone would be interested. Well, 15 years later, what's now an annual ritual is still going strong, and Thursday night (10:02 pm/ET, ABC) it serves up Bill Clinton, David and Victoria Beckham, Justin Timberlake, Katherine Heigl, Jennifer Hudson, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. (There's also a "surprise" interview, as well as the always-secret "Most... read more
Barbara Walters Lands First Q&A with Scandal-plagued Don Imus | Today's News: Our Take | 11/30/2007
Barbara Walters has landed the first interview with disgraced radio shock jock Don Imus since he was fired last April. The I-man will talk with Walters on her annual 10 Most Fascinating People of 2007 special that airs Dec. 6 on ABC. Imus is making his return to radio on Monday, when he takes over the morning slot on Citadel Broadcasting's WABC. CBS Radio and cable outlet MSNBC canned him after his racist and sexist on-air comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. — Stephen... read more
Barbara Walters Is Thankful for Finished Autobiography | Today's News: Our Take | 11/26/2007
Heads up, Star and Rosie! Your former colleague and boss Barbara Walters has finally finished her memoirs. The news vet turned producer/host of The View announced on Monday's talker that after 1 1/2 years at the keyboard, she finished writing her autobiography over the Thanksgiving weekend. The tome is due in bookstores in May, she reports, and has "a great title"... which she wouldn't reveal. "I hate this book," Walters said several times, presumably joking. "It's too personal!" She may hate... read more
Jane Wyman Tribute, Lisa Rinna's "Girls" and More Short Cuts | Today's News: Our Take | 9/12/2007
Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to the late Jane Wyman on Friday with telecasts of seven of her films, including Johnny Belinda and The Lost Weekend. The marathon starts at 6 am/ET.... Lisa Rinna invites gals to show "their girls" some love by logging onto PlaytexFits.com, a "virtual playground for bras and boobs".... Barbara Walters premieres a weekly Sirius Satellite Radio call-in show Monday at 6 pm (Channel 102).... This year's Kennedy Center Honors, airing Dec. 26 on CBS, will... read more
The New View: No Big Whoop | Roush Dispatch | 9/4/2007
Whoopi Goldberg has always had a wonderfully distinct point of view, and one that’s probably just right for her new job on The View. But unlike her immediate predecessor in the cohost seat, this POV is not trained entirely on herself. For me, that’s a relief.Tuesday’s 11th-season opening of ABC’s daytime squawk show was a pretty low-key lovefest, as the gang embraced Whoopi while catching fans up on how they spent their summer vacation: Elisabeth Hasselbeck became more... read more
Barbara Walters Not Ready to Dish on Rosie's Tell-all | TV Guide News Report | 9/4/2007
Rosie O'Donnell may have left The View in a huff, but she still has only good things to say about Barbara Walters on her blog. And just today Walters told reporters that she "has nothing but warm feelings for Rosie" and that O'Donnell is welcome to come back as a guest — though probably not as a guest host. So we asked Walters if Rosie had sent her a copy of Celebrity Detox, her new book (due out Oct. 2), which reportedly deconstructs O'Donnell's tempestuous year as moderator on The View.... read more
The View to Unveil New Cohost on Sept. 10 | TV Guide News Report | 9/4/2007
It may have been Whoopi Goldberg's first day as the new View moderator, but the show's powers-that-be, Barbara Walters and fellow executive producer Bill Geddie, were already thinking ahead this morning.Walters tells TV Guide that the long-vacant fifth seat will be filled "very soon," definitely before Elisabeth Hasselbeck's maternity leave starts in early November. Though they won't disclose the identity of their top choice, they did reveal that the new host will be a woman who has... read more
TV News Reporters Remember the Death of Diana | The Biz | 8/22/2007
August 31 will mark 10 years since Princess Diana of Wales died in a high-speed car crash in Paris. For weeks it was a major saga that consumed television news. Here's how some of the journalists who covered it remember the shocking tragedy.Piers Morgan of America's Got Talent who was then the editor of England’s Daily Mirror: I went out to dinner on the night she died. I got a call about 1 am U.K. time saying her car had been in an accident and that Dodi Fayed was hurt and Diana was OK.... read more
Whoopi Goldberg to Join The View | TV Guide News Report | 8/1/2007
After weeks of speculation, Barbara Walters announced live on The View today that Whoopi Goldberg will be the new cohost of the daily ABC chatfest."I love you guys. This is a big ol' thrill for me," said Goldberg when she was introduced on the show this morning. "The thing I'm looking forward to the most is all the hot topics."After joining cohosts Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View for the big announcement, Goldberg closed the show in true View fashion: "Have a great day,... read more
A New View Soon | TV Guide News Report | 7/30/2007
Yes! The View's new hosts will "finally be announced later this week," Barbara Walters said on her daytime chat show today. Bets are on Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd, the comic actress who's been guest-hosting for months. But it's a resounding no to the rumor that Victoria Beckham will be hosting for two weeks. "It's news to us," says the show's queen bee. "She is not. We wish her well. We think she's wonderfully exciting, but that's not who we're going to have on." — Reporting by... read more
Danny DeVito Making "Lemonade" | TV Guide News Report | 7/19/2007
Eight months after his allegedly drunken appearance on The View, Danny DeVito has decided to launch his own line of limoncello, the potent Italian lemon liquor he told Barbara Walters he shared with pal George Clooney prior to his controversial interview. “After that, all of my friends would send me cases of limoncello,” says DeVito with a laugh. “Wherever I went, people would say, ‘Hey Danny, you want a limoncello?’”His answer? “You bet!”Now the... read more
Buzz About The View's Replacements | TV Guide News Report | 6/27/2007
Don’t place your bets on a guy replacement when Barbara Walters and her colleagues on The View announce who will take the spots vacated by Rosie and — at long last — Star Jones Reynolds. Despite the presence of Joy Behar’s buddy Mario Cantone in the mix, TV Guide hears that his guest-hosting is more of a fun stunt than a tryout. When the winners are revealed, probably between July 9 and Aug. 2, we predict the show stays ladies only. As Elisabeth Hasselbeck told TV Guide,... read more
Barbara Walters: Paris Q&A Idea Was "Beneath Me" | Today's News: Our Take | 6/26/2007
In an interview with the New York Post, Barbara Walters says she turned down Paris Hilton's first post-pokey Q&A because — get this — the story wasn't "important" enough. "Look, I've done prison interviews before, but people like the Menendez brothers were really important news stories," she reasoned. "This wasn't. And even though I'd already written my questions, when all that pay-for-play stuff happened, I suddenly felt this was not up to my standard. It felt... sort of tawdry.... read more
Paris Hilton: $1 Mil for Her Thoughts? Plus, Why She's "Sick Of" the Media | Today's News: Our Take | 6/21/2007
To hear the New York Post tell it, NBC may cough up a cool hot million dollars to score Today's Meredith Vieira the first post-jail sitdown with Paris Hilton. The heiress would chat with Mer — not ABC's Barbara Walters, as widely assumed — sometime next week, the day after getting sprung. (According to the New York Times, ABC offered in the nabe of $100,000 for the exclusive, and was basically laughed at.) Supposedly, NBC secured the Q&A by boxing out Matt Lauer, whom the Hiltons... read more