He is also survived by two sisters. Walters signed a five million contract with ABC in 1976, becoming the highest-paid news anchor. Your newspapers, radio, television, motion pictures are under state control." [115] Walters' third husband was Merv Adelson who at the time was the CEO of Lorimar Television. Throughout her trailblazing, decades-spanning career, Walters went from a 'Today Girl' in the 1960s when women didn't cover hard news to the morning show's first female co-host in 1974, for which she would win her first Daytime Emmythe next year. [158] To Walters's great surprise, the book was a success. But after her marriage to Katz (and before sharing that statement with ABC News), Walters would go on to find love again. },false) She was first married to Robert Henry Katz. Merv was a big name in the entertainment industry aside from dating Barbara. The two met on a blind date that one could say went exceedingly well. Walters married businessman Robert Henry Katz in 1955 at the Plaza Hotel. A former Navy lieutenant and business executive, Robert Henry Katz was Walters' first husband. Az egyik forrs szerint 11 hnap hzassg utn vltak el, mg a msik forrs szerint 1957-ben. He was born as Barbara Jill Walters on 25th September,1929. Walters followed up with the question, "What kind of a tree? eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), Second, he married Broadway producer Lee Guber between 1963 and 1976. The couple was together for 13 years before they got divorced in 1976. While professionally Walters was winning Emmys and accolades for her work, her daughter Jacqueline had troubles as a teen. However, the pair's marriage did not last very long, and Walters and Adelson ended up divorcing in 1984. GROUNDBREAKING TV broadcaster Barbara Walters, had a career spanning half a century in front of the camera. 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[9] She and Harry Reasoner co-anchored the ABC Evening News from 1976 to 1978, making her the first U.S. female network news anchor. Walters really liked the divorced father of two except for one thing: his profession. (Where the club was once located at Broadway and 48th Street was named 'Lou Walters Way' in 2006, according to Walter's 2008 memoir, Audition. Loving husband for 45 years of Rita Kupsick Katz. She married her first husband, Robert Henry Katz, on June 20, 1955, at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. hitType: 'event', Married three times and divorced, Walters is survived by her daughter, Jacqueline Danforth. Hugh Downs, a game show host, became Today's anchor. During that interview, Walters said that she copied her look. They eventually got engaged and then married in June 1955. gads_event = event; Walters often got her interviewees to speak about their perspectives and share anecdotes. Hollywood Life, Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News. She officially retired in 2014. In her 2008 memoir, Audition, Walters wrote that during the marriage she was quite miserable. ga('ads.send', { [134] She won Daytime and Prime Time Emmy Awards, a Women in Film Lucy Award,[135] and a GLAAD Excellence in Media award. Her in-depth interviews for the Barbara Walters Special started airing in 1976, and by 1993, she would be talking to the '10 Most Fascinating People' that year. While this may seem like on of those brain-teasing riddles, theres a perfectly reasonable explanation. After 11 months, in 1957, they ended their marriage. And that he wasnt a bad person and was decent to her, but they had nothing in common. On the last 20/20 television episode in which she appears, Walters showed a video of the Hepburn interview, showing the actress saying that she felt like a strong tree in her old age. , updated I'm not lonely, I'm alone.". 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Four years after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1951, Walters married her first husband, Robert Henry Katz. Walters decided to put her in a program to address her issues and fortunately Jacqueline was ready to get clean also. ga('ads.send', { The '10 Most Fascinating People' specials started in 1993. [95], On March 28, 2013, numerous media outlets reported that Walters would retire in May 2014 and that she would make the announcement on the show four days later. 'My plate was full. She died on 30 December 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Also Known As: Barbara Jill Walters. She's also dated a lot of glamorous and interesting men, the list of which includes a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank-Alan Greenspan in the 70's, and a United States Senator-John Warner in the 90's. . His stepchildren are Robert Wyse and Katherine Goldman. hitType: 'event', By 1963, the journalist got hitched again to a prominent New Yorker. [13] Later she continued to host a number of special reports for 20/20 as well as documentary series for Investigation Discovery. Walters told her daughter she was adopted, saying Jacqueline was born in her heart. Walters worked as a correspondent, producer and co-host on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 from 1979 to 2004. Her first husband was Robert Henry Katz, a business executive and former Navy lieutenant. [96][97][98][99] However on the April 1 episode, she neither confirmed nor denied the retirement rumors; she said "if and when I might have an announcement to make, I will do it on this program, I promise, and the paparazzi guysyou will be the last to know". Walters, who was by then in her early twenties, started dating Katz, whose father ran a company that manufacturedchildren hats. media-tech companies with hubs around the world. It is not clear whether Walters also was married at the time. Previous "Today Girls" (whom Walters called "tea pourers") included Florence Henderson, Helen O'Connell, Estelle Parsons, and Lee Meriwether. He brought some huge acts to these venues with stars such as Jack Benny, Perry Como, Sammy Davis Jr, Dionna Warwick and Stevie Wonder. She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists, but for all women,' her publicist Cindi Berger said in a statement announcing Walters' death at age 93 on Friday. Whilst, everyone is aware of the famed journalist's professional life from hosting numerous television shows and interviewing an immeasurable number of celebrities to creating and staring on 'The View', very few are aware of Walters' extraordinary personal life. But it never occurred to me that I would ever have a regular on-air role myself. } "Ithink when you have an independent life and can support yourself, she told the Times, your reason for marriage becomes different. VETERAN journalist Barbara walters made a surprise appearance on SNL on May 10, 2014, just a few days before she retired from The View. }); Photo by Clarence Elie-Rivera/Getty Images. We did not the man's business exploits in detail, but we think we can still say that in the end, it wasn't his career that made Robert Katz famous. Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. A lavish ceremony did not lead to a happy marriage and the two had a very short-lived time together. Family: Spouse/Ex-: Lee Guber (1963-1976), Merv Adelson (1981-1984; 1986-1992), Robert Henry Katz (1955-1957) father: Louis Edward Walters. The couple married on June 20, 1955, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. [51][52] Walters had a great relationship with host Hugh Downs for years. The ex-pair walked down the aisle on . She also had a daughter with him. While there was tension on the evening news program, the first Barbara Walters Special, which featured Barbra Streisand and President-elect Jimmy Carter, 'was a runaway smash hit,' and would continue until 2015. [56] In 1981, five years after the start of their short-lived ABC partnership and well after Reasoner returned to CBS News, Walters and her former co-anchor had a memorable (and cordial) 20/20 interview on the occasion of Reasoner's new book release. Lou Walters was a booking agent turned supper club impresario: he ran the Latin Quarter, a club chain that had locations in Boston, Miami Beach and New York City. Katz is a business executive and former Navy Lieutenant. However, they did end up splitting up again in 1996. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), The marriage was brief, and was annulled after a year, according to The Independent. No lifetime achievement award was presented in 2020 and 2021. After their split, Barbara Walters got married to Merv Adelson, the CEO of Lorimar Television. The prestigious position had always been a male bastion, and the prevailing thought was that delivering the news about politics, wars, and natural disasters would not be taken seriously if done by a woman.'. However, his ventures werent limited to the entertainment industry. In 1955 she married business executive Robert Henry Katz. After divorcing Lee, she married Merv Adelson. Walters always wanted to look like British actress Audrey Hepburn. Walters' older sister, Jacqueline, had an intellectual disability, and Walters spent much of her adulthood providing financial support for them. While attending Sarah Lawrence College, she considered dropping out to pursue acting. Lewinsky replied, "Mommy made a big mistake," at which point Walters brought the program to a dramatic conclusion, turning to the viewers and saying, " that is the understatement of the year. During an interview in 2013, Walters said she regretted not having more children as she would love to have a bigger family. [64] Her success is credited with creating career opportunities for future female network anchors, including Jane Pauley, Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer. These included that careers and marriage did not mix, as well as her feeling that combining children with careers was out of the question. Walters hasn't been seen publicly since that intense interview. Read on to find out more about the men who were once in Walters' storied life. Meanwhile, her father had walked away from the Latin Quarter and in 1957 opened a new club in Miami. The iconic television anchor, journalist, and creator and host of The View has died, ABC News confirmed on Friday, Dec. 30 at 93 years old in New York City. Barbara Walters, the iconic news anchor and broadcast journalist, has died at the age of 93, her publicist confirmed on Friday night (December 30). People did not watch her on the ABC evening news. 'And that's when I got the reputation of being ambitious and aggressive in pursuit of interviews, the 'pushy cookie.''. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) { Lee Guber, a theatrical producer and theater owner, was her second husband. Merv Adelson is the lucky husband that got to marry Barbara not once but twice. Walters then married for the third time in 1981. [33], Walters said that being surrounded by celebrities when she was young kept her from being "in awe" of them. Walters has been married three times, first to business executive Robert Henry Katz when she was just 26 (via CheatSheet ). Following that, Barbara married Lee Guber, a theatrical producer and theater owner. Then she married Lee Guber from 1963 to 1976. But when I was doing that, that was unusual.'. Walters was a working journalist from 1951 until her retirement in 2015. By that time Walter was too at the early stages of her career at NBCs 'The Today Show'. She said she had the biggest crush on American actor and film director Clint Eastwood. She was also married four times to three different Jewish men, to business executive Robert Henry Katz, theatrical producer Lee Guber, and twice to Lorimar Television CEO Merv Adelson. More recently, in 2013, she was arrested for a DUI (driving under the influence) and since this incident has opted to stay away from the spotlight. Four days after the operation, Walters' spokeswoman, Cindi Berger, said that the procedure to fix the faulty heart valve "went well, and the doctors are very pleased with the outcome". Hugh Downs left Today in the fall of 1971 but Walters, who had been on the morning desk for seven years at that point, wasn't considered to replace him. She married her first husband, Robert Henry Katz, in 1955, before their marriage was annulled in 1957. They exchanged wedding vows on the 20th of June 1955 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. [49] One very well-received film segment was "A Day in the Life of a Nun." Ten years. She went to WPIX to produce the Eloise McElhone Show, which was canceled in 1954. [37] She continued attending public school in Miami Beach. [16] In 2015, Walters hosted the documentary series American Scandals on Investigation Discovery. Walters created, produced, and co-hosted the ABC daytime talk show The View; she appeared on the program from 1997 until she retired in 2014. The marriage was short-lived, with the pair divorcing two years later, followed by an annulment in 1958. The CEO of Lorimar Television, the pair wed in 1981 but things didn't work out and they filed for divorce in 1984. But she was cheap, Walters noted in her book, and she became a 'Today Girl,' and, eventually a reporter in October 1964. ', But ABC daytime network executives, which were not affiliated with the news department, came to Walters and her longtime producer Bill Geddie, asking if they had an idea for a show to fill a struggling time slot: 11am. In her interview with ABC News in May 2014, Walters said: 'I want to be remembered by my daughter as a good and loving mother. When their friends who were looking to adopt a boy were offered a girl, Barbara and Lee jumped at the opportunity. Walters interviewed other influential people including pop icon Michael Jackson, Katharine Hepburn, Vogue editor Anna Wintour,[77] and Sir Laurence Olivier in 1980. After a stint in public relations and at the magazine Redbook, in 1961, Walters was offered a temporary opportunity to write for the Today show, and she jumped at the chance. 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