News about Barbara Walters

OJ Simpson murder trial witness Brian 'Kato' Kaelin has revealed Barbara Walters' reaction when the NFL star was found not guilty in his 1995 murder trial. Kaelin, 65, found fast fame for his role as Simpson's houseguest amid the international publicity surrounding the murders of Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, followed by the infamous low-speed chase and subsequent double murder trial, which he was a witness in.

The 67-year-old starred as a former beauty queen on the set of CBS's Designing Women, but said there, she was treated more like a slave. She famously fell out of good graces with the show's bosses by complaining the set had become a 'difficult, unpleasant workplace'. Speaking to Chelsea Devantez on her podcast Glamorous Trash Friday more than 30 years later, she said of her mindset at this time 'I wanted to leave,' 'And I wasn't allowed to ,' she went on, describing how her dream TV role went downhill with time. 'I don't know what would have happened to me if I had been allowed to leave... It got ugly and very sad.' Other parts of the interview provided valuable insight behind her five years as glamorous divorcee Suzanne Sugarbaker, before getting into the nitty gritty behind her drug addiction.

The mantra of Barbara Walters's daytime talk show The View was to 'Make Sparks' in its early days - and nobody did that more than Rosie O'Donnell. The comedienne left the show in 2007 after her first season, following a nasty blowup with Walters over Donald Trump, a new book reveals. O'Donnell called Walters a 'f****** liar' because she didn't properly defend her against attacks from the then real estate mogul.

OJ Simpson's controversial memoir If I Did It supposedly contained a hypothetical account of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. In a chapter called, 'The Night in Question,' Simpson describes confronting the victims before blacking out and waking up to find them in a pool of blood. In a bizarre twist, Simpson lost the rights to his own book after a backlash over how much he stood to gain from the project having been found civilly liable for the murders.

Barbara Walters bagged her biggest interviews by relentlessly charming her subjects and destroying her rivals, a new biography reveals. The late TV journalist stopped at nothing to get a story because of her 'unrelenting drive to dominate the news'. She flirted so much with Fidel Castro it sparked rumors that they had an affair, which she denied, but even her producers noticed the 'chemistry' between them.

A new biography on TV legend Barbara Walters reveals her callousness toward other women in the industry who she viewed as competition. The author writes, 'Another woman's gain could well be her loss' in part because there were so few opportunities for women back then. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page is out April 23.

Barbara Walters' home in New York City, which once belonged to her, is up for auction for $17 million. After an unidentified buyer backed out of a contract he had made last November, Walters' Upper East Side home is now available. Realtor Alexa Lambert's 5-bedroom, 6-bathroom midrise apartment became an active listing on January 9 under Compass real estate brokerage. The house was first listed for $19.75 million in April 2023 and later that year, it was reduced to $17.75 million.

Jelly Roll, 39, (bottom right) given the name Jason DeFord left his life of crime for a career in music, but not for long. The drug addict and convict had been in prison on and off for nearly a decade. After the birth of his daughter in 2008, he promised to turn his life around (DeFord is pictured with his children in inset). Despite being haunted by his tragic history, the musician is determined to raise the concerns surrounding the opioid and mental health crisis engulfing the United States. Bunnie XO, Accompanied by his wife Bunnie XO (top right), DeFord appeared before Congress on Thursday (left), urging them to pass anti-fentanyl legislation. He confessed to being a "part of the [fentanyl epidemic] and is now a man who wants to be a part of the solution" rather than being a part of the solution.

On Tuesday, Joy Behar entertained The View's audience by boasting about the origins of Barbara Walters' signature 'porn' smile. Geri Halliwell, 51, the ABC daytime talk co-host, recalled Walters' recommendation to her on how to smile in front of the cameras. Barbara, she's an amazing lady.' She taught me one thing: [She] had a camera smile that she used, and I always use this piece of advice," the Spice Girls singer said.

The comedian teased Sherri, now 56, about his celibacy as Joy, now 80, quizzed him about his 'Shagger of the Year' status.' The interview, which took place over 14 years ago, was conducted by Joy and Sherri, As well as Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, and Meghan McCain, and Russell joking that the woman had left him 'aroused.'

Barbara Walters' last words and resting place have been published in a new biography, eight months after she died at the age of 93. According to a recent biography, Barbara Walters: The legendary journalist, who died on December 30th, 2022, had "no regrets - I had a wonderful life" with the words etched on her gravestone, as written by USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page, per Axios.

Barbara Walters' estate has vehemently denied reports that the late anchor elbowed sportscaster Sage Steele against a wall backstage at The View. Steele, the black father and a white mother, once debated Walters on The View over her decision to identify as 'biracial,' even though then-president Barack Obama, who has the same ethnic origins, referred to him as 'black.' Walters fought her backstage and gave her a shove that brought her 'into the wall and the garbage can,' according to Steele.

Barbara Walters reportedly attempted to 'beat her up' backstage in 2014, according to former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Sage, who resigned from ESPN after settling a lawsuit with the sports network, said she had a run-in with Walters, who died in December 2022 at the age of 93, backstage at The View in 2014. 'It was Barbara, Whoopi [Goldberg], and myself in the dim green room off to the side,' Steele recalled on Thursday's episode of 'The Megyn Kelly Show.' 'I was probably about four feet from the wall and the garbage can, and Barbara was standing in front of me.' I'll be back up toward me and stared at me, then hugged me, and then it pulled me right into the wall and spit the garbage can,' alleged Steele.

The hosts of The View have recalled their time on the radio with Bill Geddie, the co-creator of their legendary talk show who died last week at the age of 68. Geddie, a four-time Emmy winner who created the program with Barbara Walters in 1997, hasn't cited 'coronary-related causes.' On today's episode of the chat show, Whoopi Goldberg, 67, Sunny Hostin, 45, Alyssa Farah, 54, Ana Navarro, 54, and Sherri Shepherd, 56, all told their tales of the television presenter.

Geddie, 68, co-founded the show with Barbara Walters and left in 2014, died on Thursday reportedly due to 'coronary-related causes,' according to the View panel. Goldberg, 67, reprimanded her after she accused Geddie of 'firing' Joy Behar back in 2013. Navarro made the remark to former host Sherri Shepherd, who appeared on Monday's episode to honor Geddie, but Goldberg wasted no time in placing her in her place.

Bill Geddie, the View co-creator, died at the age of 68, his family has announced. According to reports, the news producer, who co-founded the show in 1997 with Barbara Walters and left in 2014, died as a result of 'coronary-related causes.' ;

On March 16 last year, a wealthy socialite named Svetlana Maniovich (left) headed to an invitation-only function at an exclusive jewellers in Paris the day after a string of Russian air strikes wreaked havoc on the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, southern Ukraine. As the people of Mariupol mourned the death of 600 of their fellow citizens, Maniovich, 50, was led to Place Vendome, one of the French capital's grandest squares, where she knocked on the door of Joel Arthur Rosenthal's atelier, a venue so modest that it doesn't even have a display window. JAR, as he is well-known, has a client list that includes Elizabeth Taylor, Elle Macpherson, and Barbara Walters. Although Maniovich couldn't expect to be a celebrity wattage, she was more than a match when it came to spending power, and she discovered some diamonds she had ordered as rescue workers in Mariupol pulled bloody and broken corpses from the ruins. What makes her behavior particularly offensive is that her husband, Russia's deputy defense minister Timur Ivanov, who was one of the Ukraine's top architects, has hands that are drenched in blood to the elbows.

Suzanne Somers has had a lot of success throughout her long career. The 76-year-old had her breakout role in the 1970s with Three's Company, built an empire with the Thigh Master in the 1990s, and revived her acting career with Step by Step. However, she had one chance she was rejected on: co-hosting The View with Barbara Walters. "I was originally scheduled to be on the original View with Barbara Walters and whoever else, but I turned it down,' the actress, 76, shared during a segment on the Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef on Wednesday.' 'And everyone said, "Why would you turn that down? Somers recalled that it is a national exhibition.

In a recent interview with Page Six, Rosie O'Donnell talked about starting to embrace her role as a single woman. After years of seeing other people, the 61-year-old comedian said she had discovered how to love being single. In October of last year, the television star, who previously skipped out during a salute to Barbara Walters, became estranged from her most recent companion, Aimee Hauer.

The stunning Upper East Side apartment, a stone's throw from Central Park, has 11 rooms, including a dressing room, a formal dining room, and a library. It is also where the trailblazing anchorwoman courted several of her most famous interviewees, including Monica Lewinsky, who visited the apartment twice before her explosive discussion of Bill Clinton's child scandal. Walters lived at the house for 30 years before passing away peacefully in December last year.

Rosie O'Donnell, 61, first appeared on the show in 2006 before being forced to leave by co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a year later. "I finished the show, got my jacket, walked out, and said, "I'm not going back" - and it wasn't until a few years later that they asked me to return.' The mother-of-two will return to the show in 2014 before abandoning for good in 2015. "I know this: It's not the right use of my talent to be in a competition where I have to argue and defend basic values of humanity and kindness,' she said. Despite the scandal surrounding her appearance on the program, O'Donnell argued she'forgave' long-time show runner Barbara Walters, who had begged the actress to join, and said they were 'friendly' at the time of Walters' death in December.

According to the Today show, Al Roker appeared to be a completely different person in a snatch of flashback footage broadcast by his longtime home. The old clip appeared before Al, 68, was discovered before undergoing a gastric bypass in 2002 and then fell more than 100 pounds. Not only was Al carrying all the pre-op weight, but he also had hair, as shown in the Today video. The video of Al as part of a montage celebrating the program's seven decades featured such iconic characters as Katie Couric, late Barbara Walters, and disgraced Matt Lauer. Al has weighed 340 pounds before going under the knife last year in an Instagram post commemorating the 20th anniversary of the operation.

According to her friend Lisa Ling, the late Barbara Walters was coerced out of her seat on The View, the show she created in 2014. Walters, 49, who died on December 31, said she was told on her last day filming the ABC chat roundtable in 2014 on Monday, Ling, 49, who died on Monday. Ling, a CNN reporter, told the paper that she had never shared this [information] with anyone.'

At the CMT Awards 2023, Jelly Roll received Male Video of the Year, Male Breakthrough Video of the Year, and Year-First Performance of the Year. The Son of a Sinner singer, 38, and first-time nominee also took to the stage at Austin's Moody Center, performing Need a Favor. During the service, the tattooed crooner became ill as he lauded the country radio industry for its recognition and yelled out to those who disagreed with him.