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President Obama made his much-anticipated appearance on The View today. Actually, I'm not really sure how anticipated it was, per se -- my Twitter feed was pretty dead through the hour. But it was definitely discussed! People were worried that an appearance on The View was beneath President Obama....
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Some pretty crazy things have been happening on The View lately, and the show is about to get even more interesting. That's because President Barack Obama is scheduled to appear as a guest on this Thursday's broadcast, becoming the first sitting president to ever appear on a daytime talk show.
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Early this morning, television icon Barbara Walters announced to the audience of The View that she will be taking a break from the program this summer to undergo heart surgery. She and her co-hosts then had a long discussion about the surgery, her health, how the issue was discovered, and whether she was...
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TV Week has released its annual "10 Most Powerful in TV News" list today, placing Roger Ailes, the NBC team, and the CNN team in the medaled positions, respectively. Jon Stewart is the top-ranked TV personality at #5, with Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck taking the #7 spot together. Univisión and the Huffington...
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We've previously reported that unauthorized biographer Kitty Kelley had claimed to Matt Lauer how many broadcast journalists were avoiding the publicity tour of her new (and allegedly salacious) tome on media mogul and daytime talk icon Oprah Winfrey. Well now that details from the book have emerged, perhaps it's no...
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Turns out here are a lot of folks out there who don't want to get on Oprah's bad side. This morning, celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley appeared on Today and was asked by host Matt Lauer if she really believed that many television hosts were afraid to interview her for fear of angering Read more »
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Today Justin Bieber visited the women of The View and talked about his career, upcoming tour and the life of a teen pop sensation.But when it came time to talk about the girls in his life, he had a surprising answer ready to go.
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The pictures are, in fact, kind of sexy. There, I said it. Rielle Hunter, the woman behind the man who might give the National Enquirer its first Pulitzer, has finally come out of her shell. In a big way. Her interview with GQ is all over the place (in more...
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It's rare that we actually wish a tabloid story were true as much as we do this item in the National Enquirer about Barbara Walters and actor Frank Langella having a secret, torrid romance. Unfortunately, Walters doesn't feel quite the same way, and had Enquirer's Executive Editor Barry Levine on The View today to...
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