Why bother with that annoying morning talk show? They should have invented reality TV 100 years ago just so we could watch Baba Wawa's life unfold.

Lay it all out there Babwa! Fuck it, she's pushing the twilight years of her career anyway, so just break it on down!

I loved the look on Oprah's face when Babs said "I didn't consider myself a mistress." O was like WHAT.EVER. Loved that! And y'all no I'm no great Oprah fan.

Kind of sucks how amazing Edward Brooke was, and this is totally how he's going to be remembered now.

"....and the older I get the more I know you must be kind..."

Wow. This is the first time I've ever not wanted to punch Barbara Walters in the face.

Hell, I'd kind of like to get a drink with her now.

Didn't she have a fling with Greenspan? I'd imagine that screen grab was her exact expression when she saw him nekkid.

You're welcome.

OK, when Barbara was using that metaphor about Rosie riding the bus, they cut to "Riding the Bus with My Sister." Whoever the hell thought of that cut needs a raise.

i love when babs was like, "I have to ask, can you walk in those shoes?" And O was all, "Of course not! These are for sitting."

OK, I just love the random "Can you walk in those shoes?" moment, right outta nowhere.

oh, and biatch sure can hold a grudge....her bit moment to act out on Star and Rosie after being so nicey nicey at the time.

Last Living Confederate Widow Tells All.

If her awareness of kindness grew with age, how does she explain the no holds barred kiss and tell book.

@Doreen DelPurgatorio: It must be nice to be rich. Walking shoes, and sitting shoes lol!

@Kittenish: You have to give Oprah props for that exchange. I loved how she said she had dated a married man but was never a mistress because no man ever supported her. And the way she said--knowing her ass is a completely self-made billionaire--made me grin ear to ear. Get it, O.

Oh come on, no one can use the word "sister" anymore? That's a silly thought.

Oh, that's why I've seen Oprah walking to her chair with her shoes in her hand while flipping channels.

Sitting shoes. Auntie Mame would approve.

@Sophie: Oh snap Oprah: "I've never been anyone's mistress", LOL.

Does anyone else see this as an obvious, and somewhat pathetic, attempt by Barbara to stay relevant in the media? What do I care if she slept with a senator? If that's all I need to do to sign a book deal, I'm moving to DC.

SM your screen grabs make my days a little brighter.

Gotta say this is the first time in a meantime I have really liked both of these women. I forget how endearing O is because I only ever see clips of her show when her audience is going nuts over "my favorite things" or she is kissing Tom Cruise's ass. I need to find a way to not go to work so I can waste my life watching daytime tv instead. I think I should have a discussion with my boyfriend about this.

Is Babs dying? Because, you know, these people are still around...she's still around...old ladies are easy to take out.

That was bad, I'm sorry, but what prompted all of this?

*meantime= long time

of course

@hellodmitri: You don't need to move to DC, trust me.

if you can talk with a straight face about needing to "drive the bus" and battling with obesity in front of Oprah, you can do anything.

@SusieDerkins: either a raise or a big fat bonus because i just woke up neighbors laughing at the edit.

@veryrestricted: i have a closet full of sitting shoes. i bring a fold up pair of flats with me when i have to walk long distances. and i'm not rich and i wear size 11 shoes. seriously.

@Snowbunny: exactly what i was thinking - really sounded like things you only divulge about someone once they're gone. and what was the point of keeping it a secret at the time if she was just going to write and talk about it publicly later? don't think too many people will exactly be telling babs personal things from here on in...baba blabbamouth

My grandma went to her grave being proud of Star for losing the weight "by herself."

AND THAT is why I can never forgive that betch!

What I find most hilarious about the Star Jones thing is the rampant incredulousness at the "portion control and pilates" argument. I mean, no one believed it, but that is exactly what anti-fat haters like to say. "If you just ate less and exercise more, you'd lose weight!!"

Then a very fat woman loses a ton of weight and claims that she just ate less and exercised more, and not a soul on Earth believes her. It cracks me up, we so can't win. :-)

Loved the moment with the shoes, and I am so buying this book. I love it when people actually tell the truth.

@JessicaLovejoy: I think God put you here to test *my* faith...: "forgive" her? I mean, I know she lied about it, but it was her own business about her own health. I get that people expect celebs to be totally open about stuff like that, but her decision not to tell anyone could have been about any number of things, maybe she didn't want to be the "face of gastric bypass" the way Al Roker and Carnie Wilson turned out being...I dunno.

Oh, and I hate Star, I find her obnoxious fat or thin! Her crazy wedding was what was unforgiveable. :-)

@rednrowdy:

I have sitting shoes too, they are cheaper! You can always find them on sale cause people don't want shoes they can't walk in. I have a few that I got for around 20% of the regular cost.

In my defense, I have a home office so I usually just sit barefoot in my office and people come to me. So when I leave, I wear comfortable shoes.

@RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHer: It was certainly her own business. In which case she should have kept her trap closed entirely, instead of saying "Oh hai, it's all about portion control (because if I don't control them, things will get ugly quite quickly!)"

@RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHer: And yea I guess I just contradicted myself by applauding the truth in Baba's book but forgiving Star for lying about her surgery. I'm so confused. :)

@RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHer:

You can lose weight from exercise and dieting only - but you don't lose half your weight in a few months, like Star did. It is a lot more gradual than that. So people had good reason not to believe her.

And eh, I don't care how people lose weight, bypass or diet, it is all the same to me. I don't think one is the "hard way" or the "right way". Anyone who has seen Randy Jackson regain all his bypass weight should know the bypass doesn't look exactly easy either, so whatever.

Kind? Huh Babs? Until you get a 6 figure book deal, that is. Then sell, apparently, you sell those bitches out!

I know people who have had the bypass and dropped not a pound.

I also know people who have worked out for 3 hours daily and restricted their eating, all according to their professional nutritionists' guidelines from, like, the Duke program, and dropped not a pound.

So, since as a culture we will never stop persecuting the fat -- which apparently these days is short for "larger than size zero" -- until such time as the recession really kicks in and only the wealthiest 1% can afford to eat and the vogue changes accordingly, we could drop the subject???

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OT, I cannot believe what is coming out of Baba's mouth -- and books -- these days.

Did she just fire her entire PR team or something? Or is she just swimming in residuals to the tune of "Don't Give a D*mn"?

Dear Babs,
Please STFU.
Thx

Any respect I might have had for her as a kid died a very long time ago.

@It'stheRooo: Barbara will be eighty in September.
My money is going on "Don't Give a D*mn"

I just watched this again and Barbs pwns Tom Cruise in all aspects of interviewing.

@SouthernSatine: Kind? Please. Ask anyone she's ever worked with, around or for: the thought of her somehow getting religion and being "kind" is laughable to the max. Ha.

@rednrowdy:

I'm sure we all have shoes that aren't comfortable and we only wear to look good in for short periods of time, but do you really have shoes that you wear just for sitting?

I mean if you don't sit on tv, who is looking at your shoes while you are sitting? Not snark, just curiosity. Besides therapists, I can't think of any other job that involves sitting where people evaluate your shoes.

Babs is being more than polite in this interview. Star was hated for a long time before the "surgery", believe me I interned there in 1999. Wow I am dating myself but still. I will never forget the orders for bacon at her door and the unruly demands that woman would have (STAR). Babs was always very very old school hollywood which in some way I loved. Breakfast was a black coffee and a peeled hard boiled egg. If it wasn't peeled it wasn't worth eating. She also had to be lead around the building at all times and DENIED that she ever had work done even then which is funny b/c I mean clearly, hi, she totally did. The only women I loved from that experience were Joy, Meredith and Tori Amos who I got to meet and had a great conversation with in the guest bathrooms. good times. faye dunaway, not so much.

I told y'all so about Star...

Does anyone else think Barbara Walters is the journalist referred to in "to Die For"?

@kikimonkey: Yeah, odd how she's reticent on that but willing go full disclure on a secret that involves others - really, what the hell could be gained (other than getting her book published) from flapping her yap about this now but hurting Brooke's family? She is classless and hypocritical and desperate to be relevant and I have no use for her.

And taking one of her obnoxious interview questions, if she were a tree, she'd be an ash.

So, Bahbwa occasionally prefers dark meat, resents Star, hates Rosie, had sibling issues and is not speaking to The Don...this is not news and even if it is, it's certainly not interesting news. A most definitely not worth a leisurely Sunday afternoon reading session. Well, I take that back. The Black Senator thing gave me slightly more respect for her than I had before; but I'm still not granting her a 'hood pass. She should just live out her twilight years in tranquilty and stop being so forthcoming with other people's business.

Everyone who can get payback on Babs is either dead or powerless. So why not write a tell-all book?

@ceejeemcbeegee (AKA!): Apparently, Diane Sawyer was the basis for the Nicole Kidman character in "To Die For." In her early years, notorious for giving head to get jobs.

Riding the bus with my sister = classic cinema