According to US news outlet Variety, Walters interviewed the biggest names in politics and entertainment, from Katharine Hepburn to Monica Lewinsky to Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat.
Posted Date – 11:30 AM, Sat – 12/31/22
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Washington: Emmy Award-winning journalist and celebrity interviewer Barbara Walters has died at the age of 93.
According to US news outlet Variety, Walters interviewed the biggest names in politics and entertainment, from Katharine Hepburn to Monica Lewinsky to Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat.
She was once the highest paid TV reporter, earning $12 million a year at ABC, where she worked from 1976 until her retirement from ABC News and the hit show “The View” in May 2014. Before that, he spent 12 years on NBC’s “Today” show.
Walters has received multiple Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Talk Show Host for her 2003 and 2009 appearances on The View, and she has also received multiple Primetime nominations for her specials Emmy nominated and won in 1983. She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1975, according to Variety, and she won a Today’s News and Documentary Emmy for her coverage of the turn of the millennium on ABC.
Barbara Jill Walters was born September 25, 1929 in Boston. Her father, Lou Walters, was a nightclub owner. She attended Miami Beach High School and the Philston School and Birch Watson School in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in English, Variety reported.
Walters was married three times, first to Bob Katz in 1955 and later to Lee Gubbs, and adopted a daughter, Jacqueline. and television producer Merv Adelson, whom she divorced a second time in 1992.
