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Barbara Walters Has A New Man

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Apr 122007

It’sÂ getting serious between Barbara Walters, 77, and Dr. Robert N. Butler, 80. Walters and Butler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and gerontologist, just got back from a weeklong romantic Caribbean getaway to St. Martin, friends say, and she is “happier than ever.” A freshly tanned Walters is expected to go back on “The View” where we hope she’ll gush all about her new man to the ladies.

Rosie O’Donnell Is Staying On The View For Now

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Mar 112007

BARBARA Walters isn’t getting rid of her fr-enemy, Rosie O’Donnell, this year. ABC insiders say, “Rosie is going to get her own show – but it’s too late to do a show for September 2007, so she will re-up for one more year at ‘The View’ and then do her own show that debuts in September 2008.” ABC is very keen on keeping O’Donnell at the network. “She revived a 10-year-old show that was on its last legs,” said one insider. O’Donnell has added 75,000 viewers a week since she joined the coffee klatch last September, keeping audiences enthralled after getting into feuds with Donald Trump, Walters and others. There is one catch to O’Donnell staying at ABC, however. “She wants ['The View' executive producer] Bill Geddie out. They hate each other. She’ll stay if he leaves,” said our source. A rep for O’Donnell said, “Nothing has been decided regarding her plans.” Abbie Schiller, a rep for “The View” and ABC, said, “There is not one detail of this that is accurate.”

Here is Rosie’s latest stunt of the week – hanging upside down for depression!

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Rosie Yells At Barbara Walters

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Jan 092007

The tension between “The View” creator Barbara Walters and co-host Rosie O’Donnell, sparked by O’Donnell’s feud with Donald Trump, boiled over yesterday morning when the portly comic called Walters “a [bleeping] liar.”

The fight started around 8:30 a.m. when Walters, back from a two-week vacation, walked into the hair and makeup room at ABC studios and tried to hug O’Donnell, whom she hired onto the popular show.

According to spies, O’Donnell recoiled from Walters’ touch and yelled, “You kept me in the newspapers this whole time!”

Both “View” producer Bill Geddie and Walters tried to calm O’Donnell. Walters told her, “I did everything I could to squash the story” – prompting Rosie to scream, “You didn’t call me for 10 goddamn days, and you didn’t tell me what you were going to say on television!”

O’Donnell is fuming because Trump went on Larry King two weeks ago – after she had called Trump a “snake-oil salesman” – and said Walters told him she regretted hiring O’Donnell. Trump also blasted the comic as “a horrible human being and a loser.”

During her vacation, Walters issued a carefully worded statement saying, “I’m sorry there is friction between Donald and Rosie. That said, I do not regret for one moment my choice to hire Rosie O’Donnell as the moderator of ‘The View.’ ”

After O’Donnell’s outburst at Walters yesterday, Geddie jumped in and told her, “You’ve crossed the line.” O’Donnell retorted, “Cameras are now outside of my house where my wife and kids are.” She turned to Walters and said, “You went all around this and never called [Trump] a liar. You never said, ‘Donald is lying.’ You never called him a liar.”

When Walters tried to defend herself, O’Donnell erupted, “Are you looking me in the face and denying you didn’t tell him you didn’t say this? You’re a [bleeping] liar.”

Cindi Berger, a rep for both Walters and O’Donnell said, “Whatever happened in the hair and makeup room was hardly a squabble. It’s business as usual, everyone has moved on.”

(via Page Six)