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• Each year, Barbara Walters interviews the ten people she finds to be the "most fascinating" in a television special. The first nine participants are always released before the program and the #1 most fascinating person is revealed in an extended interview during the program.

• Fast Facts

  1. Show airs on ABC on Thursday, December 4th at 10/9c
  2. 2008 Most Fascinating People: Tom Cruise, Tina Fey, Rush Limbaugh, Frank Langella, Miley Cyrus, Thomas Beatie, Sarah Palin, Will Smith and Michael Phelps.

• Barbara Walters Fast Facts

  1. Born: September 25, 1929
  2. Received B.A. in English from Sarah Lawrence College in 1953
  3. Most known for her role as co-host of the ABC newsmagazine, 20/20, a position she has held since 1984
  4. Co-owner, co-executive producer, and co-host of ABC talk show The View
  5. First woman to co-anchor an evening news program
  6. Imitated on Saturday Night Live by Gilda Radner in 1970s

• Edward Brooke Affair

  In 2008, Walters admitted on The Oprah Winfrey Show to having a lengthy affair in the 1970s with then-married Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, a man whom she said she was "infatuated" with and who was "exciting" and "brilliant."Huffington Post: Walters Admists Affair with Seantor (May 1, 2008)

• About Barbara Walters

  Barbara Walters is an American broadcast journalist who appears regularly on The View and 20/20. Walters has interviewed hundreds of the most prominent celebrities and newsmakers over the past thirty years and is often sought out by publicists for her personal and engaging style.

• Early Career

  Walters began her career in broadcasting in 1961 as a writer for the NBC morning program, The Today Show. After rising through the ranks at the increasingly popular morning program, she became the show's co-anchor in 1974. In 1976 she was named co-host of the ABC Evening News along with Harry Reasoner and became the first female co-anchor of an evening news program in American history.

• Life

  Walter has been married (and divorced) three times, and is rarely shy about her private life. In the 1970s, she dated future Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.

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