{"id":322689,"date":"2010-02-15T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93273"},"modified":"2010-02-15T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:42:46","slug":"barbara-walters-oscar-special-ends-after-29-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/322689","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Walters Oscar Special Ends After 29 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Barbara-Walters-Offered-A-Job-At-NBC-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Barbara Walters Offered A Job At NBC\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-88279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After 29 years, Barbara Walters is bidding farewell to her annual pre-awards show special. On <em>The View<\/em> Monday, Babs revealed that next month&#8217;s Oscar interview special will be her last.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;ABC has asked me to keep doing these specials as they have been so successful. I&#8217;m thrilled we have such great stars and have such a wonderful show for this last one \u2013 but to be honest, I feel like I&#8217;ve &#8216;been there, done that,&#8217;&#8221; <\/em>Walters confided to fans on this morning&#8217;s program. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-93273\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This special has been a labor of love for 29 years. I will always remember when Hugh Jackman gave me a private lap dance or sitting down with the legendary Bette Davis or being taught to tango by Al Pacino,&#8221;<\/em> Babs recalled. <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s those priceless moments that have made this special the Oscar tradition that it has become, but I truly feel enough is enough.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Barbara Walters Special 2010<\/em>, airing on Oscar Night March 7,  will feature chats with Academy Award-nominees Sandra Bullock and Mo&#8217;Nique, as well as a host of other Hollywood stars.  The veteran newswoman is still expected to carry on with her other annual ABC News Special, <em>The 10 Most Fascinating People.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 29 years, Barbara Walters is bidding farewell to her annual pre-awards show special. On The View Monday, Babs revealed that next month&#8217;s Oscar interview special will be her last. &#8220;ABC has asked me to keep doing these specials as they have been so successful. I&#8217;m thrilled we have such great stars and have such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}