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Glenn Beck a 'Sack of Dog Mess': Whoopi

View host rips into Fox commentator for lying about Amtrak incident

(Newser) - Whoopi Goldberg unloaded on guest Glenn Beck on The View today over an alleged fabrication involving Amtrak and reserved seats, the Orlando Sentinel reports. “You were a lying sack of dog mess,” Goldberg told the Fox News personality. Barbara Walters said she and co-host Goldberg did not have...

Astor Witness List Is Star-Studded

Kissinger, Walters, Annan could testify

(Newser) - The Brooke Astor trial could be a who’s-who of New York hotshots: The list of possible witnesses includes Henry Kissinger, Kofi Annan, David Rockefeller, and Barbara Walters, the Times reports. Vanity Fair boss Graydon Carter said he felt “very privileged” to be on the list, provided by the...

Barbara Walters Calling It Quits, Friends Say

Veteran is 'burned out,' doesn't want to extend ABC deal past summer

(Newser) - Barbara Walters intends to retire when her contract is up this summer, sources tell the National Enquirer. Though ABC would apparently like to keep the veteran interviewer, Walters, 79, is “burned out,” and wants to spend more time with her boyfriend. “I don’t want to be...

Swayze: 'I'm Going Through Hell'

(Newser) - "Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah, I'm angry. Yeah, I'm all that stuff," Patrick Swayze tells Barbara Walters in a candid interview that airs tomorrow, the first since his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. "I'm going through hell, and I've only just seen the beginning of it." Swayze was determined...

Aniston's Hot-Bod Secret: Photoshop

Sculpted figure was touched up for GQ cover, Jen admits

(Newser) - Jennifer Aniston admits her body got some digital upgrades for this month’s bare-all GQ cover. When asked by Barbara Walters, “what happened to the girl next door from Friends?” Aniston, 39, responded, “She’s there! Photoshopped,” Us Magazine reports. Aniston says the original concept for the...

No 'Girly Dog' for Obama

 No 'Girly Dog' 
 for Obama 
Nov 26, 2008 1:45 PM CST

No 'Girly Dog' for Obama

Despite Walters' entreaties, president-elect wants 'big rambunctious' canine

(Newser) - Barack Obama doesn't want a “girly dog” that just “sits in your lap and things,” he tells Barbara Walters in an interview set to air tonight, dismissing her unabashed lobbying for a White House pup similar to her sweet Havanese, Cha Cha Cha. “We're going to...

Obama : Execs 'Tone Deaf' to Economic Dirge

President-elect urges Wall St. bosses to step up, forgo bonuses

(Newser) - Auto executives taking private jets to bailout talks is a symptom of a much larger problem, President-elect Barack Obama said in an interview today on ABC's Good Morning America. The "tone deaf" move revealed that industry leaders—and highly paid CEOs in general—are out of touch with the...

Rosie: View 'Camaraderie' Fake
 Rosie: View 'Camaraderie' Fake 
Nov 20, 2008 10:32 AM CST

Rosie: View 'Camaraderie' Fake

(Newser) - The co-hosts of The View are not friends, Rosie O’Donnell says. “I'm not saying they loathe each other, but the fact of the matter is there was not a lot of camaraderie off camera,” the talkfest's onetime lightning rod says. During an appearance to promote her upcoming...

Oregon Man Pregnant Again
 Oregon Man Pregnant Again 
Nov 13, 2008 12:37 PM CST

Oregon Man Pregnant Again

Transgender male, with 4-month-old girl, expecting second child in June

(Newser) - “Pregnant man” Thomas Beatie has another bun in the oven, just four months after the transgender male gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Though he’s legally a male, Beatie kept his natural female sex organs and has stayed off testosterone pills since the birth so that he...

Brinkley Ex Stops Payments to Mistress

Cook claims Bianchi broke confidentiality; her reps threaten suit over sex tapes

(Newser) - It appears Peter Cook’s ex-lover may not get the last third of her settlement, the New York Post reports, and her lawyers are to blame. Diana Bianchi, the teen whose affair with Cook led to his divorce from Christie Brinkley, signed a deal promising $300,000 as long as...

Brinkley Loses Latest Legal Round vs. Ex

(Newser) - Christie Brinkley doesn't want her kids seeing her ex spill his guts to Barbara Walters tonight, and a New York judge agrees—but he isn't on board with keeping the youngsters from seeing their dad in person, Newsday reports. The judge yesterday denied the ex-supermodel's bid for a temporary restraining...

Ex Blames Brinkley for Affair
 Ex Blames Brinkley for Affair 
Oct 8, 2008 3:03 PM CDT

Ex Blames Brinkley for Affair

Lack of emotional connection prompted cheating, Cook tells Walters

(Newser) - Christie Brinkley’s adulterous ex-husband said that he cheated on the former supermodel because she did not offer the emotional connection he needed, ABC News reports. In an interview to be broadcast Friday, Peter Cook told Barbara Walters that by 2005 he and Brinkley felt “more like we were...

Cindy McCain Blasts View After Grilling

It's 'out of sync' with mainstream America, says aspiring first lady

(Newser) - Newspapers and TV shows like The View are out of sync with the average American’s political beliefs, wannabe first lady Cindy McCain has declared. She blasted the media the day after she and hubby John McCain were grilled on The View about misleading campaign ads and the undisclosed number...

Ex- View Buddies Swap Barbs
 Ex-View Buddies Swap Barbs 
May 7, 2008 2:40 PM CDT

Ex-View Buddies Swap Barbs

Onetime co-host slams Walters tell-all as cry for attention

(Newser) - Star Jones is blasting back at Barbara Walters for claims made in her new tell-all memoir, US magazine reports. Walters writes in Audition that Jones compelled her and the other co-hosts of The View to lie about her gastric bypass surgery.

Baba Wawa Flies High on Book Tour

Author picks up tab for private jet travel

(Newser) - Barbara Walters is footing the bill so she can travel in style during her 25-city book tour, the Daily News reports. The 78-year-old, who received a $3 million advance for her memoir Audition, will not only pony up for private jet trips, she'll also bring along her hair and makeup...

Barbara Walters Reveals '70s Affair With Married Senator

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

(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...

Obama Takes Image Rehab to The View
Obama Takes Image Rehab
to The View
Mar 28, 2008 1:02 PM CDT

Obama Takes Image Rehab to The View

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

(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 &...

Speech Sparks Candor on Race
 Speech Sparks Candor on Race 
Mar 20, 2008 3:44 PM CDT

Speech Sparks Candor on Race

Churches, advocates, universities say race taboos have been lifted

(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...

Hasselbeck Returning to 'The View'
Hasselbeck Returning
to 'The View'
Jan 4, 2008 6:46 AM CST

Hasselbeck Returning to 'The View'

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

(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...

Whoopi Joins 'The View'
Whoopi Joins
'The View'
Jul 27, 2007 1:15 PM CDT

Whoopi Joins 'The View'

Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd get in on the girltalk

(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. 

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