Barbara Walters Net Worth 2024, Age, Height, Weight, Biography, Wiki and Career Details

Barbara Jill Walters is an author, television personality, and former broadcast journalist from the United States. Walters hosted several television shows, including Today, The View, 20/20, as well as the ABC Evening News, and was known for her interviewing skills and success with audiences. From 1951 to 2015, Walters worked as a journalist.

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Biography and Early Life

Barbara Walters was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Louis “Lou” Walters and Dena (née Seletsky) in 1929 (though Walters herself asserted 1931 in an on-camera discussion).

Her parents were Jewish and descended from ex-Russian Empire refugees. Abraham Isaac Warmwater, Walters’ paternal grandfather, was born in ód, Poland, and relocated to the United Kingdom, where he changed his name to Abraham Walters.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Barbara Walters in 2024 and what is her height and weight? Well, Barbara Walters’s age is 94 years old as of today’s date 27th April 2024 having been born on 25 September 1929. Though, she is 5′ 5″ in feet and inches and 165 cm in Centimetres tall, she weighs about 132 lbs in Pound and 60 kg in Kilograms. Her eye color is Hazel and hair color is Blonde.

Education

Walters studied at the Lawrence School, a public school situated in Brookline, Massachusetts until the middle of fifth grade. Her father relocated the family to Miami Beach in the year1939, where she continued to attend public school.

Her father relocated the family to New York City, where she attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School before returning to Miami Beach. She then returned to New York City, where she joined the Birch Wathen School, graduating in 1947. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. in English in 1951 and immediately began looking for jobs in New York City.

Personal Life: Dating, Boyfriends, Husband, Kids

Walters has dated three separate men four times. Robert Henry Katz, a business leader and retired Navy lieutenant was her very first husband. On June 20, 1955, they married at The Plaza Hotel situated in New York City. After 11 months, or in the year 1957, the marriage was officially annulled.

Lee Guber, a theatrical producer as well as theater owner, was her second husband. On December 8, 1963, they married, and they got a divorce in 1976. Jacqueline Dena Guber is their only child (born in 1968 and got adopted the same year).

Merv Adelson, the Chief executive officer of Lorimar Television, was her third husband. In 1981, they married and split in 1984. They divorced for the second period in 1992 after remarrying in 1986.

In college, she dated Roy Cohn, a lawyer who said that he proposed to Walters the night prior to her marriage to Lee Guber, but she denied it. She attributed her lifelong commitment to Cohn to his assistance in the adoption of her daughter.

Is Barbara Walters Lesbian?

Barbara Walters’s sexual orientation is straight. She has married four men, and all her marriages ended up in divorce.

Professional Career

Barbara Walters started working for WNBT – TV, which is an NBC affiliate, after graduating from college. She then became the producer of a children’s show named “Ask the Camera.” She later went on to create the ‘Eloise McElhone Show.’ She joined CBS’s “The Morning Show” as a writer in 1955. She joined NBC’s “The Today Show” as a researcher as well as a writer in 1961. She previously worked as a writer for Redbook magazine and as a publicist for Tex McCrary Inc.

As a result of the death of Frank McGee, she rose to become the co-host of “The Today Show.” From the year 1976 to the year 1978, she was a co-host on ABC’s Evening News. She went on to host ’20/20′ in 1979. Walters joined ‘The View’ in 1997 as a co-creator, executive producer, as well as co-host. In 2004, she revealed her semi-retirement. From 2010 onwards, she also quit doing Oscar interviews.

Barbara Walters has been covering special episodes of ’20/20′ since 2014. She presented the documentary series “American Scandals” on Investigation Discovery in the year 2015. She proceeded to host her annual “10 Most Fascinating People” in the same year. She stepped down as co-host of ‘The View’ in 2014, as well as from ABC News.

Awards

Barbara Walters was honored by the Radio Television Digital News Association with the Paul White Award in the year1985. She has been nominated for 21 Daytime Emmy Awards and has received three of them. She received the NAACP Image Award for the Best Talk Series in 2009. She also won the Crystal + Lucy Awards for Women in Film in the year 1998. Her induction into the Television Hall of Fame took place in 1989. She does have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well. She is also the recipient of the GLAAD Excellence in Media Award.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Barbara Walters in 2024

As of 2024, Barbara Walters’ net worth is over $200 million. She owes this good fortune to her sixty-five-year career in the TV industry. She has already established herself as a living legend after hosting several television shows during her career. Her writing career, for which she has published many publications, has also contributed to her wealth. Her first book, ‘Audition: A Memoir,’ was published in 1970, and her autobiography, ‘Audition: A Memoir,’ was published in 2008.

Barbara Walters is one of the most well-known television personalities on the planet. She is among the most recognized and honored female television personalities. She has also hosted a Sirius XM radio show named “Here’s Barbara.” She had open-heart surgery to replace an aortic valve in 2010.