barbara walters

     

This celebrity interviewer grew up around celebrities; her father owned NYC's Latin Quarter nightclub

Trivia about barbara walters

  • Co-host of "The View", this newswoman has interviewed every U.S. president & first lady since the Nixons
  • She's the only woman from any branch of the news media ever to make Gallup's list of "Most Admired Women"
  • Now a "20/20" co-anchor, she was 1 of 2 women reporters in the press corps that accompanied Nixon to China
  • On her 1998 Oscar Night Special, she asked Will Smith, "Do you think I'm getting jiggy with it?"
  • (I'm Meredith Vieira of The View.) This TV news pioneer, my co-host, was previously partnered with Harry Reasoner & with Hugh Downs
  • Now cohost of "20/20", in 1976 she became the 1st woman to co-anchor the network evening news
  • In her 2008 memoir "Audition", this journalist from "The View" says that Alan Greenspan is "a very nice dancer"
  • Today she interviews stars; she met many as the daughter of a New York City nightclub owner
  • Her bio says she has "arguably interviewed more statesmen and stars than any other journalist in history"
  • Born in Boston in 1931, she was the first female to co-anchor a regular nightly network newscast