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Barbara Walters Wiki Biography

Barbara Walters is a famous American author, journalist, television producer, as well as a talk show host. Barabara Walters is perhaps best known for hosting such famous talk shows as “Today”, currently hosted by Carson Daly and Tamron Hall, and “The View”. The latter talk show was co-created by Walters and Bill Geddie. For a long period of time Walters, was not only a host and creator of the show, but also its producer. Barbara Walters left the show in 2014, together with Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy. Considered to be among the longest running shows in history, “The View” is presently hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

In addition to these two popular shows, Barbara Walters appeared on screen in “ABC Evening News”, as well as a newsmagazine “20/20”. A famous television personality, how rich is Barbara Walters? In 2007, Barbara Walters’ annual earnings amounted to $12 million, most of which was collected due to her appearances on television screens. In regards to her wealth, Barbara Walters’ net worth is estimated to be an impressive $180 million.

Barbara Walters was born in 1929, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was a famous Broadway producer so Walters spent the majority of her childhood being surrounded by celebrities. Prior to becoming a huge success, Barbara Walters worked at an advertising agency and then went on to work for WNBT-TV, an NBC network affiliate, where she wrote press releases. Walters then produced a short children’s show entitled “Ask the Camera”, and worked as a producer on “TV Host” and “Eloise McElhone Show” before she received an opportunity to write for “The Morning Show”. In 1961, Walters expanded to writing for other shows as well and that year she started working for NBC, namely one of their most successful shows called “The Today Show”.

Walters soon climbed the career ladder and moved on from writing to becoming a part of the famous “Today Girls” and later, in 1974, became the first female host of the show. Several years later, Walters joined forces with Harry Reasoner on the “ABC Evening News” and also began hosting “20/20”. Throughout her career as a journalist, Barbara Walters had an opportunity to interview some of the most famous people in the world, including Fidel Castro, Margaret Thatcher, Hugo Chavez, Michael Jackson, Katherine Hepburn and Monica Lewinsky to name a few.

In 1997, Walters co-created a popular talk show and entertainment program called “The View” but retired as a host in 2014. However, Walters is still working as an executive producer on the show. An inductee to the Television Hall of Fame, Barbara Walters left a remarkable contribution to the entertainment industry, both as a host, executive producer and a writer. Barbara Walters had been honored with the Disney Legends award, Lifetime Achievement Award, which she received from New York Women’s Agenda, as well as Lucy Award for her creative works.

In addition to appearing on screens, Walters has published books, namely “How to Talk with Practically Anybody about Practically Anything”, which became a huge hit, and “Audition: A Memoir” released in 2008.

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Barbara Walters Quick Info

Barbara Walters Quotes

• [on asking Ricky Martin about his sexual orientation] “When I think back on it now, I feel it was an inappropriate question.”
• Unless you and I fornicate in front of everybody, people aren’t going to think we get along. (to co-anchor Harry Reasoner of ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953).
• [Upon receiving a GLAAD award in 2008 for a report on transgender children] You can forget all the Emmys. This means more to me.
• Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
• My own opinion is that there’s far too little flirtation in our country as it is. Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
• [on interviewing] I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
• I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
• [advice from Don Hewitt, producer of 60 Minutes (1968), in 1957] You’re a marvelous girl, but stay out of television.

Barbara Walters Important Facts

• Met Joan Rivers at NBC, where the two became friends, until Rivers’s death in 2014.
• Longtime friend of over 50 years was the late Joan Rivers. Walters attended her funeral, when the comedienne had passed away on September 7, 2014.
• Mentor and friends with Star Jones.
• Release of her book, “Audition: A Memoir”. [2008]
• Release of the book, “Barbara Walters” by Henna Remstein. [1999]
• Ex-cousin-in-law of Lenny Adelson and Marvin Adelson.
• Announced her retirement in May 2014 [May 13, 2013].
• Suffering from chicken pox [January 28, 2013].
• Elisabeth Hasselbeck revealed that Barbara Walters is Republican.
• Her second cousin, Nancy Shevell, is engaged to marry Paul McCartney and Walter says she considers her ‘like a second child to me’ [August, 2011].
• Underwent heart surgery to repair a leaky heart valve on May 12, 2010.
• In 2008, she was asked publicly whom she would spent time with, if the world were ending. With family or friends not an option, she answered interviewing Osama bin Laden.
• Has stated that her best interview was with Katharine Hepburn, her worst was with Warren Beatty.
• Adopted daughter (with Lee Guber) Jackie Walters Danforth operates a self-discovery program for troubled girls that combines outdoor living with clinical therapy that she founded in 2001 called “New Horizons”.
• In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $12 million.
• While she attended Sarah Lawrence College, one of her classmates was Lee Radziwill.
• Ex-stepmother of Gary Adelson and Andrew Adelson.
• Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 14, 2007.
• The first anchorperson to earn $1 million a year.
• Interviewed John Wayne on January 10, 1979, about six months before he died.
• In mid 2003, country singer Brad Paisley released a single titled “Celebrity,” which he makes a reference to Barbara by saying “I’ll get to cry to Barbara Walters when things don’t go my way” referring to the celebrities who she interviews, the song turned out to be a major country radio hit.
• First ever female to anchor a news broadcast on a major network when she and Harry Reasoner were co-anchors on ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953) in 1976.
• Was impersonated by Gilda Radner and Cheri Oteri on Saturday Night Live (1975).
• Donates $1 million toward a gallery to be named for her in new Heimbold Visual Arts Center at her alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College, at Yonkers, NY campus, May 2002.
• Graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School in Miami Beach, Florida.
• She does not like to be photographed from her right side.
• Named one of the “Best Dressed Stars of All-time” by People magazine, Sept. 2000.
• Is a vegetarian.
• An adoptive mother of 1 daughter.
• She was the youngest producer with NBC-TV’s New York station (WNBC-TV).
• Her interview with Monica Lewinsky became the highest-rated news program ever broadcast by a single network.
• Daughter Jacqueline Dena Guber was born 14 June 1968. She was adopted by Barbara and her then-husband Lee Guber a few days after birth.
• Graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in English.
• TV reporter.
• Her father, Lou Walters, owned Latin Quarter nightclubs in New York, Boston and Florida.
• Has received honorary doctorates from Ohio State University, Temple University, Marymount College, Wheaton College, and Hofstra University
• Was the Today (1952) show’s first female co-host.
• Has interviewed every US president since Richard Nixon.
• Honored by Museum of Television and Radio in 1996, for her contributions to broadcast journalism.
• Lifetime Achievement Award from Women’s Project and Productions in 1993.
• Lifetime Achievement Award from International Women’s Media Foundation in 1991.
• Honored by the American Museum of the Moving Image in 1992.
• Inducted into the Television Academy Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 1990.
• She only wears one contact lens while working. With one lens she can read the teleprompter, but with two she would not be able to read her notes.
• Stated that her mentor is newsman Mike Wallace.
• Her daughter was named after Barbara’s sister, who was born mildly mentally retarded and died a few years ago from ovarian cancer.

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