Everything about Barbara Walters totally explained
Barbara Jill Walters (born
September 25 1929) is an
American journalist, writer, and
media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (
Today and
The View), an evening news magazine (
20/20), and on
The ABC Evening News as the first female evening
news anchor. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's
Today, where she worked with
Hugh Downs and later hosts
Frank McGee and
Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABC's newsmagazine
20/20. She was the first woman to co-anchor the network evening news, working with
Harry Reasoner on
The ABC Evening News.
Biography
Early life
Walters was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Dena (
née Seletsky) and Louis Edward Walters, a theatrical booking agent and producer. In 1937, her father opened the first of a famous chain of nightclubs known as the Latin Quarter; he also was a
Broadway producer (he produced the
Ziegfeld Follies of 1943). Walters' elder sister, Jacqueline, was born
developmentally disabled and died of
ovarian cancer in 1985. Her brother, Burton, died in 1932 of
pneumonia. Walters' parents were
Jewish, although she didn't have a religious upbringing, as her father had become an
atheist.
Being surrounded by celebrities when she was young kept her from being "in awe" of them.
After attending
Fieldston and
Birch Wathen private schools in
New York City, in
Yonkers,
New York.
Career and accolades
After a brief period as a publicist with
Tex McCrary Inc. and a job as a writer at
CBS News, Walters joined
NBC's
The Today Show as a writer and researcher in 1961.
Lee Guber, theatrical producer and theater owner married on December 8, 1963, divorced in 1976. They have one daughter, Jacqueline Dena Guber (born 1968, adopted same year).
Merv Adelson, the CEO of Lorimar Television married on May 10, 1986, divorced in 1992.
The lawyer Roy Cohn said that he proposed to Walters the night before her wedding to Lee Guber but Walters has denied this claim. In her autobiography, she says that Cohn got her father's warrant for failure to appear dismissed.
She dated former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in the 1970s and her name was linked to United States Senator John Warner in the 1990s.
While promoting her new autobiography Audition during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 6 2008, Walters said that during the 1970s, she'd an affair with Edward Brooke, then a married United States Senator from Massachusetts. Walters said that the affair ended to protect both of their careers from a possible scandal.
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