She paved the way for so many female newswomen, from Joan Lunden, Maria Shriver, and Paula Zahn to Robin Roberts, Connie Chung, and the list goes on and on.
On a recent episode of 'The View,' co-host Barbara Walters teased bits and pieces of her annual 'Most Fascinating People' list, which this year includes the British boy-band One Direction and 'Fifty Shades of Grey' author E L James.
Blargh.
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Is Barbara Walters gonna hafta cuttabitch? In her genteel way, maybe. Let's just hope there are pictures.
The journalist discussed perpetual mess Lindsay Lohan with her 'The View' co-hosts, mentioning that Lohan backed out of a '20/20' interview only to agree to a Q&A with Jay Leno instead -- and Walters is none too pleased about it.
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Barbara Walters has named her Most Fascinating Person of 2011: Steve Jobs.
While her policy has always been to choose only living people for the annual roundup, Walters said that when Jobs retired as CEO of Apple last summer, she knew he’d be her pick to top the list. And even after his death on October 5, Walters stuck to her choice because, much like Jobs believed, “rules were made to be broken.
You can hear the gasps in the audience when Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg used the N-word on "The View" as they discussed the controversy which surrounds Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry. It has recently surfaced that the Texas governor has ties to hunting grounds long been referred to as "N-----head."
Elton warns that they should beware of the British press, saying that it's one thing about Britain that "sucks." In the video, after the jump, Elton told ABC's Barbara Walters:
Barbara Walters has her special tomorrow night on the most fascinating people of 2010, but she should have covered the meltdowns and scandals of 2010 because that would have been so much better.