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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters stories: 30 news summaries

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Barbara Walters Reveals '70s Affair With Married Senator

TV host drops bombshell on relationship with Mass. Republican Brooke on Oprah

May 1, 08 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barbara Walters has revealed she had a long affair in the 1970s with Edward Brooke, America’s first elected black senator. In a bombshell admission on a forthcoming episode of Oprah, the grande dame of TV anchors says the married Brooke—a moderate Massachusetts Republican who served in 1967-79—was... More »

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Barbara Walters • Oprah Winfrey • affair • Edward Brooke

Obama Takes Image Rehab
to The View

Candidate says he was gone from church if pastor Wright wasn't

Mar 28, 08 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama "wouldn't have felt comfortable staying there at the church" had Jeremiah Wright not retired this year, he said today on The View. Obama reiterated his denunciation of his ex-pastor’s sermons, saying Wright had “deeply offended people,” CNN reports. He also told Barbara Walters... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Hamas • Barbara Walters • Jeremiah Wright • Trinity United Church of Christ

 Speech Sparks Candor on Race 

Churches, advocates, universities say race taboos have been lifted

Mar 20, 08 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - While a verdict on the political wisdom of Barack Obama’s race address might be months in the coming, the speech has sparked a national conversation on the topic, the New York Times reports—with universities, churches and TV commentators chiming in. The Tuesday speech is the top video on... More »

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Barack Obama • YouTube • race • Bill O'Reilly • Barbara Walters • Whoopi Goldberg

Hasselbeck Returning
to 'The View'

Rosie O'Donnell's right-wing rival back from maternity leave

Jan 4, 08 6:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Conservative TV co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck will return to "The View" on Monday after a two-month maternity leave—and she'll be bringing her new son, Taylor Thomas, with her. Hasselbeck infamously had it out on the air with liberal co-host Rosie O'Donnell over the war in Iraq shortly before the... More »

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The View • Barbara Walters • Whoopi Goldberg • Elizabeth Hasselbeck • Sherri Shepherd • daytime talk show • Joy Behar • Iraq war • maternity leave

Whoopi Joins
'The View'

Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd
get in on the girltalk

Jul 27, 07 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Whoopi Goldberg and comedian Sherri Shepherd will be adding their views to daytime television this fall. "The View” will announce the new additions next week, the LA Times reports, two months after Rosie O’Donnell’s acrimonious departure.  More »

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television • New York • The View • Rosie O'Donnell • Barbara Walters • ABC • Meredith Vieira • Whoopi Goldberg • Sherri Shepherd • Star Jones

(Newser) - Nobody else wanted her.  So Larry King got the honor of being the first to interview Paris Hilton following her release from jail next week.  After being spurned by the three major networks who were asked for large sums of money for the interview, Hilton finally got a... More »

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entertainment • media • Barbara Walters • Paris Hilton • Meredith Vieira • Larry King

NBC Cancels $1M Deal With Ex-Con Heiress

Network renegs on Paris interview; Walters won't do it for free

Jun 23, 07 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paris Hilton got jilted by NBC yesterday, the New York Post reports. The peacock network reneged on its reported $1-million offer for her first apres-jail interview after executives got cold feet. Then they decided they didn't even want the "Today" show interview for free. And none of the other... More »

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media • NBC • Barbara Walters • celebrity trials • Paris Hilton • celebrity • heiress

NBC Win$ Battle to Chat Up Paris

Checkbook journalism charges and denials fly as 'Today' beats out Barbara Walters

Jun 22, 07 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - NBC seems to have beaten out ABC in a bidding war for the first TV interview with post-jail Paris Hilton, although both networks and the Hilton family officially deny that money changed hands. Paris will come clean to Meredith Vieira rather than family pal Barbara Walters, the Times quotes anonymous... More »

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entertainment • television • media • NBC • Barbara Walters • Paris Hilton • ABC • Meredith Vieira

Paris Declares She's Got God Intentions

Prison turns heiress towards religion, ABC

Jun 12, 07 6:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paris Hilton says she's found God and will change her life at the end of her 45-day jail term. Barbara Walters chatted with the heretofore mischievous and materialistic heiress on a collect call from prison, and recapped the conversation on yesterday's View. "I have become much more spiritual,"... More »

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The View • Barbara Walters • Paris Hilton • ABC • religion • God • LA County Jail • celebrity • faith • heiress • jail

Rosie's Leaving "The View"

Controversial host will depart in June

Apr 25, 07 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Loose-cannon comedienne Rosie O'Donnell will give up her post as a co-host of ABC's "The View" in June, after a one-year stint marked by public tiffs with celebs like Donald Trump that embarrassed "View" doyenne Barbara Walters. More »

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entertainment • television • The View • Rosie O'Donnell • Barbara Walters

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