The television news icon finally confirmed the news of her retirement on Monday's episode of The View with a heartfelt (if early) farewell in advance of her leaving behind the show — and more than a half-century of TV history — this time next year.
Declaring that "the paparazzi guys... will be the last to know" about her retirement, legendary journalist Barbara Walters turned her non-denial denial of rumors about her retirement into a dismissal of rumors in general on The View Monday.
The ABC News icon, who broke barriers for women in broadcast journalism and became one of the most revered interviewers and relaxing presences in television history over the course of more than a half-century on the air, is set to retire next May.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck was leaving The View, but then she wasn't, and now she's leaving again. We don't really know who to believe, but word is out — again — that the ice queen of daytime talk TV is getting the boot from Barbara Walters' daily gabfest. Just not yet.
Today in celebrity news: Justin Bieber started a concert very late which made lots of British parents angry, Taylor Swift is talking back, and Malia Obama has a girls night out.
In a scenario that's ripe for terrible Twitter jokes but actually pretty frightening, Barbara Walters has the chicken pox, a disease most associated with schoolyard days — even though adults can have it bad.
You've all seen the photo, which the Obama campaign tweeted on election night and quickly became the most-retweeted in Twitter history. Now Barbara Walters gets the president to induce a collective national moment of "aww."
Today in celebrity gossip: The Rolling Stones frontman made a little faux pas during last night's 12/12/12 concert, Pippa Middleton takes the piss out of herself, and Barbara Walters confronts One Direction.
Last night's season premiere of The Walking Dead was the highest rated show of the fall, on any channel. Also in showbiz news: Lindsay Lohan is interviewed again for some reason, Aaron Paul gets a big lead role, and Christoph Waltz will lead Russia.
The 22-year-old aide to Bashar al-Assad, who Barbara Walters helped get into a Columbia University graduate program, used her powers of spin on herself in a New York Post interview, saying she was "nothing but a victim for some personal agendas."
If you're an aide to that "mild mannered ophthalmologist" Bashar al-Assad, who's ruling that bloody murderous mess that is Syria, your best bet getting out of the country and into a cushy Ivy League grad program is apparently Barbara Walters
As we enter Memorial Day weekend, the season of celebrity commencement speeches is drawing to a close once again, and among the many loftier bits of rhetoric graduating seniors are bound to forget, our nation's elite speakers imparted some valuable life lessons.
As the brutal regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad continues killing thousands of its own people, a new cache of leaked e-mails reveal who played nice with the Arab autocrat.
The former North Carolina senator has reportedly asked Rielle Hunter to move in to his North Carolina mansion, Pippa Middleton's romantic life chronicled, and Michael Kors made himself $100 million this week
ABC News had to deny rumors, potentially started by someone in the White House, that Barbara Walters will be retiring next year, in an affair this afternoon that raises many rather fun questions.
Barbara Walters picked Herman Cain to be one of her 10 most fascinating people of 2011 (fair choice, actually) and he told her that if chosen for a cabinet position in 2012, he'd like to be Secretary of Defense.
Barbara Walters' interview with Bashar al-Assad last night had the Syrian leader denying repeatedly that anything afoul was happening in his country, questioning the legitimacy of the Western media and United Nations along the way.
Perhaps the most infamous white-collar crook of the last decade, Bernie Madoff took his reputation as a pariah so hard he and his wife Ruth tried to commit suicide, Ruth Madoff told 60 Minutes, but now that he's in prison the convicted ponzi-schemer says he finds himself smiling sometimes, and he's "horrified."
The New York Observer joins the small group of people supporting News Corp.'s CEO
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Also wonders why "no one" has seen the president's baby photos
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