Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Barbara Walters Flashback to 2013: She Told “I Wasn’t Retiring from Anything” After ABC Tried to Push Her Out

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Barbara Walters did not want to let go of “The View” or her career. This was ten years ago, she was 83, which was unheard of for a woman, and one in media.

Read my exclusive from back then right here.

Also, Barbara’s 2013 retirement was short lived, She came back in 2014 with a real get.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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