I love that Star Jones of all people would be attacking Barbara Walters - haha. Cause Star Jones is so high class and above selling herself for money and fame. Whatever.

I cant wait to read this book!

Star Jones has a book out, too. And in that book, she didn't want to talk about gastric bypass surgery, did she? At least we can get the truth (the whole truth) from Barbara. And guess what, Star - Barbara's book will SELL better than yours did, too! Oh, snap!

i think it's funny that star jones of all people is attacking her. please. while yeah, she could be a little more discreet, eh, it's not a big secret star jones!

dont care for either

Update:

When contacted about Star Jones' statement that Barbara Walters 'reduced herself' to sell books, Babs' rep responded:

"I will not dignify this with a comment. Barbara's written words say it all!"

i think some of it is a little out there, but come on, like ANYONE thought Star Jones lost weight from pilates and portion control? I don't think so

We all new Star Jones had surgery... BW is getting older and has always been is the business of getting the truth out of other people. It was only fitting that she one day would spill the beans on all of her personal stories and secrets kept all these years. She is Barbra Walters she can do what she wants.

Possibly. I mean, the whole affair, not sure why she is talking about that since it is a personal matter but I'm glad she can admit that. I love the smack to Star Jones. Babs PAWNS you

Honestly, I don't care to pay money to read anything about Star Jones....I especially don't care how she lost her weight. Surely after the career Barbara has had, she can find more exciting things to write about than Star Jones and an affair she had with a married man 30 years ago.

"the sunset of her life"

i dont like either an i dont think you can say Babara is the whole truth, i highly doubt she is as nice as she makes herself seem.

I hate Barbara Walters and Star Jones looks like a bobblehead doll.

As if that beyotch lost weight with portion control and pilates. LOL

Portion control absolutely - because she only has a portion of her stomach left.

Lyin heffer.

LOL

what happened to being able to keep a secret? when a friendship ends, that doesn't mean it is now time to blab every detail you know about someone.

I think the senator thing was inappropriate. She just revealed that to get attention.

Barbara Walters seems desperate for attention. And she will use anyone for that purpose. I like The View better when she is not there.

next

on a side note; a news reporter from san diego was in the audience the day babs was on oprah. during a commercial break oprah announced that she had also had an affair with a married man during that same time frame. someone in the audience yelled out "wh*res!" the reporter told the story on the local news the other day, lol.

I think it's partly the media for pulling this all out of the book and making it "the" issue. The book looks thick so I would think there is more interesting things in there then that she slept with a black Senator....though, I do wonder if everyone in the media is reacting so strongly to these stories because they have put her on a pedestal and have looked up to her all of thier lives as somone to strive to be....and anyone who hears that his or her hero is flawed, is rather shocked and may dwell.

I think she is an interesting person as it is, the fact that the affair is what is getting the attention does do a bit of an injustice to the point. I'll have to check it out from the library, she doesn't need any of the money that I don't have!

Where is the choice for: Barbara is OLD and if she doesn't write her biography now then when the hell is she supposed to?

i feel like barbara walters is trying to sell her books by bringing up these things that have happened in the past. that senator's family and the senator are victims since now it is placing them in a difficult life. its pretty self serving on her part. star jones is the queen of self serving behavior and really doesn't have a leg to stand on regarding barbara's book and what is in the book. puhlease. this whole thing is tacky and i'm a bit amazed that barbara wrote this book at this time.

its her choice if she wants to talk about her affair. star jones is an idiot. she made barbara walters look bad from the beginning. Barbara should have the opportunity to defend herself.

whatevers, did Star Jones actually believed she was fooling anyone with that "proportion and pilates" story? what a fool!

At this point Babs has nothing lose.

Barbara Walters didn't have to mention the affair. Obviously, this is for sales of the book. She said she warned the Senator but it seems like she wants to shock people and not seem like a goody two shoes. She admits she wasn't very nice to her mentally handicapped sister, etc. It seems like she lowered her standards to sell her book. Star Jones should have learned to be honest with the public.
Everyone has the right for free speech but she used to have more integrity. I think that it's interesting that she went to Oprah and tonight there's an ABC Special yet she's only said a few words on The View. Also, today on a local talk show, a "celebrity" who was on the View this year said that Barbara was nice on camera but mean off camera.

I respect Barbara, but she went too far with speaking about the affair. However, it's known and Star herself has admitted that she got gastric bypass, so it's not a biggie. Well, it looks like Barbara's book is #1 on Amazon.com.

Its Barbara Walters, she know exactly what she's doing. If the info is already out there then why not talk about it

i love how just because its barbara walters who had the affair its ok
like i saw a section of the view where the other b*tches (hate that show) were asking her about her "dark dirty secret" and barbara snapped back that "its not dirty" and they were all like no no we just meant it as a secret

what do u mean its not dirty?? u were the other woman in a married man's life. hell yea its dirty. and shes absolutely shameless to admit it.

agreed sun-sun i personally hate cheaters thats why i despise her now even more and i dont even know the biatch, she has some nerve coming out talking sh*t about other people, i could careless about star i personally think she has a big ass head for that little body that she miraculously got from Pilate's yeah right, atleast when she was fat her head suited her, now she looks like an anorexic bobble head

Sun_Sun, your right, she isn't ashamed of it AT ALL! Oprah even called her a mistress and Barbara just about had a heart attack. Oprah asked her if she regretted it and she didn't even regret the affair! She just regretted that he didn't get re-elected. Skank!

so true hotsuff

I can't believe that I actually agree with Star Jones... what is the world coming to? Hotstuff, you are right on. A wh*re is a wh*re, no matter how much money or influence, and she acted like a wh*re when she slept with a married man. She's gross. And old. And I don't want to hear about gross old people sex. Blech.

I have to say it is disappointing that she is using sensationalism to sell her book. She was on the radio today talking about her book, and mentioned her career in journalism and how her priorities started clashing with the trends of the news media. (She wanted to interview the president, but had to interview a tabloid headline-maker instead.)

I think it is sad that instead of using her landmark career to sell books, she is using adultery and other people's surgery scandals to promote herself. She seems to have sunk to the low that she critized other for.

Star is just looking for a way to get her name in the media again, I come on the only thing I've seen her do was a couple of epsoides of House Hunters on HGTV.

As for Barb's affair she has always said that he had a lenghtly affair, she just never said with who. It's her Biography, when else is she going to talk about it. Leave it in a diary next to her death bed???

Any respect I ever had for Baba Wawa is gone. Don't get me started on that lying turtle, Star.

Barbara's memoirs should have been played out in real time, without secrets, during the course of her life; waiting til now makes me question the very reason she has written it from the get-go. The secrets are what will sell the book as it is with most celebrities involved in their autobiography. I think OPRAH's interview gave me what I needed in terms of curiosity.

I had thought about reading the book but Barbara went into so much detail about the most "shocking" stories that now I feel like I don't have to! No one should have agreed to lie for Star Jones even if they were on The View with her. Star should have just admitted the gastric bypass from the beginning. It makes her look like even more of an idiot now that the truth is out!

Star Jones has no credibility with me. In my eyes, she's made a spectacle of herself, too. She lacks character and integrity, and on top of that, she's disingenious.

On the other hand, I find Barbara more acceptable. She's open and truthful. Sure, she may not have regretted the affair, but at least she's honest about it. To me, she proves that she's human -- she's not infallible. She has base thoughts and base actions, like all of us.

Star Jones - it was a sad day when you lied and potentially made other obese people feel bad about getting gastric bypass because they wanted to do something for their health.

As long as Barbara is telling the truth, I have no problems if she wants to disclose info about an affair. Big deal, it was in the 70's. Women rarely come out about affairs they way she did. It was kind of interesting.

I find Barbara annoying. She has done some interesting interviews over the years, but she is kind of boring. And I don't like Star either. I think BW could have been more discreet about the affair, the man is still married to his wife, right? ANd they probably have children. I don't know the entire story but why tell the whole world?

I just didn't like the fact she doesn't consider herself a mistress. Um... yeah you are. Be happy someone called you a mistress because i could think of other worst names to call ya for what you did.

i don't mind that she wrote it, but i'm not going to buy it. What's the point all the juicy details are out.

and the thought of barabra having any sort of romantic relationships makes me barf.

That being said her daughter seems like a delight.

I never liked her much, but this is shameless. Airing dirty laundry from the 70s?! And soo disrespectful of the former senator's privacy and family...Horrible. If they promised to keep it a secret then, she should have stuck with her word even thirty years later!

Oy, I just wrote a whole long post about the Senator and his fam it didn't go through...I think so I'll do it again.

No, he's not still married to the same woman he remarried. He never even lived with the wife, he only visited her on holidays. The wife knew he was having an affair but she liked being Mrs. Senator so and so, she never said anything. When he finally went to divorce the wife this is when she flipped out and made his life hell in the press so he lost his re-election. He and Barbara had the affair for 2 years.

No

I watched this interview and it was honest and moving. And who is star jones to question someone's integrity. If I recall, you wh*red yourself out for a free wedding ,and lied out having an obvious surgery!

i have lost all respect for her. because she had an affair with a MARRIED man. have some class. that is disgusting.

i could care less about star jones. but airing dirty...DIRTY laundry that can hurt other in the process is a very low blow..

she is trash

Other...

There are too many secrets in the world, and it is nice when people are truthful about themselves and others.

Star has no right to criticize Barbara for no longer keeping her secret for her; she should have been honest herself from the start.

Regarding the affair, I did not get the impression that it was being sensationalized to sell books. I see it as her coming clean about something that most people would be too ashamed, embarassed, or afraid to admit, especially to the whole world. When was the last time you discussed your transgressions on TV? Good for her.

"The truth shall make you free."

So some individuals have decided to forget about a woman's long and illustious career, a trailblazer as it were, because she had an affair when she was younger? She's hardly the first woman to have an affair with a married man, and newsflash, HE is as guilty as she is, I don't see ANYONE here dividing the blame as it should be divided. I'm only seeing people calling Barbara Walters a wh*re (and Gods, I hate that word. Throw it in the pile with the racial slurs thank you very much. A sexist and gender based slur designed to degenerate and dehumanise another human being, and for it to come out of the mouths of other women is hideous.)

This is also hardly the first biography or autobiography detailing aspects of a life story of a public figure that have not come out before. I recommend going to the local bookstore and taking a peek in the biography section. I recommend going to the local library and seeing just how far back in history this particular genre goes.

I would also recommend that people pick up a book called "A History of Mistresses" by Elizabeth Abbott, Dean of Women at Trinity College, University of Toronto. IBDN number 9780002000468, published by Harper Collins.

Why does the "no" answer have to have such a loaded word as "milk" in it? Yes, you guys write super witty answers in the polls, but it makes them so useless.

Okay so, "no, Barbara Walters is ancient, has lived an interesting life, and if she doesn't spill it now, we'll never get to hear it."

I highly doubt she needed more cash. Also, it's not like she is revealing other people's personal affairs, yes weight loss is personal, but I can understand her frustration with the Star Jones weight situation. What with the issues with obesity in America, Star's behavior around her surgery wasn't that reponsible. It's not like I need to know her complete medical history, but I don't blame Barbara for telling the truth now. And she was pretty tactful about the whole Rosie thing, and I respect that she has stopped talking about to Donald.

This while book thing is actually making me like her more.

A true journalist keeps their personal life out of the story. She just negated all of the advances she made as a woman journalist by reducing her autobiography to tabloid fodder. I would rather not know who she slept with.

When Peter Jennings and Walter Cronkite wrote their autobiographies, it was about their lives as a journalist, not who they slept with.

I think Barbra Walters is a Tasteless biatch! If I were Star Jones, I'd sue tis old Hag. It's totally unprofessional & tacky. Brabra is obviously desperate. Retire Already.