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December 15, 2011
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Walters interviewed Obama at the White House, during a break in the interview Walters leaned over and told the Prez, "I need one more interview with you because I'm retiring next year."
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December 14, 2011
"They were the first ones we interviewed and we did them in September," Walters explained. "We said, anything going to happen? 'No no no, you can do it now because nothing's going to happen.'
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Listing some of the years most prominent names in entertainment, sports and pop culture, Barbara Walters Presents the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011, and the people she’s choosing to highlight will indeed “fascinate you,” as in, how the heck did they make the cut?
The special includes fascinating people like the entire Kardashian family. I guess they are fascinating. A family who made millions by dating athletes and promoting diet shakes is very fascinating.
Whoopi Goldberg opened up the conversation about the controversial word when discussing it being used at one of Rick Perry’s properties. Apparently, Perry was part of a hunting club, and one of their properties was named after the N-Word.
“When the candidate, Herman Cain, talked about how radically insensitive it was, he didn’t use ‘The N-Word’, which is I guess what we’re supposed to be saying now,” Whoopi explained. “I just use the word,” she said, after saying it in front of the audience, who cringed a bit.
“I find it so interesting that you did [just use the word], Barbara Walters chimed in, throwing around the N-word a few times to describe the situation.
June 8, 2011
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The chemistry was there and they each had distinct personalities. The View was the perfect career launcher, and while only Joy Behar and Barbara Walters remain, Joy has had plenty of outside success, too.
So what's the latest on the rest of the OGs?
Lady Gaga has a new, and very important, role—playing Godmother to Elton John and husband David Furnish’s new son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John. Whoa, that’s a long name!
Elton confirmed that great news to Barbara Walters in an upcoming interview on Good Morning America. “Yes, yes she is.” Babs already knew the news and kept it a secret. But than again, we all already knew.
Gaga seems a little out there. So why would he trust her of all people with his only son?
"When you get to the real person under there, there's a real simple person under there who loves her parents."
Added Furnish: "Zachary's going to inherit an incredible musical legacy from his father one day, and she will be a good person to guide him through the ins and outs of the music business, 'cause she sure knows everything about the business now."
What a lucky kid! He has Elton John as his Dad and Gaga as his Godmother. He’s pretty much set for life. Holidays and birthdays are going to kick ass for Zachary.
Other celebrities with famous Godparents include Nicole Richie, who had bragging rights that Michael Jackson was her Godfather.
December 10, 2010
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"In life, it seems, there are people who break things and people who fix them. This man is a fixer," she said on the ABC special. "A lot depends on General Petraeus and his combination of humanity and strength."
I’m just hoping the cast of Jersey Shore went right after him to realize just how pointless and non-fascinating they really are. The other person who was kept secret until now is Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook. Hollyscoop made predictions a couple of weeks ago with Zuckerberg in the running, and the choice totally makes sense.
He’s becoming a household name, especially with the movie The Social Network that came out a couple months ago. This guy is definitely fascinating, to say the least!
Just yesterday, he announced he was giving away half his fortune to charity. "People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?" he said in a statement.
"With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts."
Definitely deserving of praise if you ask me! What did you think of Babs’ top picks?
December 8, 2010
Oprah sat down with Barbara Walters in a special that airs tomorrow night (no she’s not one of the most fascinating peeps) and gets emotional with Babs brings up old Gayle!
"She is ... the mother I never had. She is ... the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person. I don't know a better person," Oprah says tearfully.
"It's making me cry because I'm thinking about ... how much ... I probably have never told her that. Tissue please. I now need tissue. I've never told her that," she confesses.
As for those lesbian rumors that have followed Oprah throughout her career, she says, "I'm not a lesbian ... I'm not even kind of a lesbian," Winfrey says.
"And the reason why it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think I'm lying. That's number one. Number two ... why would you want to hide it? That is not the way I run my life."
So there ya have it! Take it for what it is! Check out the interview on "A Barbara Walters Special: Oprah, The Next Chapter," Thursday at 9 p.m. and watch the sneak peek below!
November 29, 2010
Case in point, the cast of Jersey Shore made the cut. Apparently GTL-ing and smushing is fascinating to Babs.
Princess-to-be Kate Middleton makes the list a little classier, and I’ll admit, I’m gaga for anything Royal right now. Good choice!
Sarah Palin makes the list for the third year in a row—how she manages to RE-fascinate people every year, I do NOT know.
November 29, 2010
I’ll just go ahead and ignore the fact that there’s seven of them—so I guess altogether they make up one fascinating person.
"We have quite an eclectic list this year, but every subject has truly fascinated and entertained us this year," Barbara Walters said of her list this year.
The guidos definitely entertained us, but fascinated?? Not sure I can get behind that… According to ABC, the cast gives Walters a lesson in GTL, grenades, and smooshing.
"I need a lesson. Okay, because you have your own language. So you gotta help me, 'GTL,'" Walters says during the interview.
Also making the list this year are Kate Middleton, LeBron James, Betty White, Justin Bieber, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lopez and Sarah Palin.
Palin, believe it or not, is the only person to make the list three years in a row. And we wonder why her daughter made it so far on Dancing With the Stars.
Sarah says in her segment, "There are constant rumors out there about us. I saw on the cover of a tabloid, that we were getting a $20 million divorce. I was in the grocery checkout line when I saw it and I called Todd and said, 'I can't believe the cover of this magazine! This is what it says.' And Todd says, '20 million bucks? Write me a check.'"
The ABC special airs Thursday, December 9 at 10PM. The top two peeps are still under wraps at this point—but I’m placing bets on Lindsay Lohan for sure.
No one is more fascinating than that girl, and just a few weeks ago she was shooting something in the Palm Springs area that she got special permission for. Barbara Walters is definitely someone who could get Lilo out of rehab for the day.
As for the last slot, I’ll bet on Kim Kardashian, just because she’s everywhere right now!
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