Barbara Walters is a television personality whom interviews the ten people she finds to be the "most fascinating". 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. Whenever there is a Barbara Walters special or Barbara Walters interview on television it is sure to be a controversial one. Nowadays Barbara can be seen regularly as one of the female hosts on 'The View', a television show she produces, which often discusses the hot topics of the week. Her co-hosts include Whoopi Goldberg Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Sherri Shepherd.

On May 11, 2010, Walters announced on her show The View that she would take a leave of absence so that she could undergo heart surgery. It turned out that on of her Heart valves is getting tighter and smaller. Therefore it needs to be replaced; this procedure is called an Aortic valve replacement.http://www.popeater.com/2010/05/14/barbara-walters-heart-surgery-recovery/

On May 14, 2010, Walter's had the operation done and according to her representative everything went well. Walters will be in recovery for anywhere from 1 - 3 months and it is unclear as to when she will be returning to The View. The talk show host hopes to be able to return to back to the television show in September.http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2010/05/15/walters-surgery-recovery.htmlhttp://www.popeater.com/2010/05/14/barbara-walters-heart-surgery-recovery/

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
7. Inducted into the Television Academy Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame in 1990.

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)

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.

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.

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.

• I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910181/bio