THE HUFFINGTON POST — Barbara Walters is set to retire from broadcasting in May 2014, a person familiar with her plans told The Huffington Post.
There will be a years’ worth of specials about Walters’ storied broadcasting career before then. The news followed a report in Deadline that said Walters would announce her retirement this May.
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Walters is 83 years old, and has had several health scares in recent years, from herheart surgery in 2010 to her bout with chicken pox and a concussion just this past January. She had brushed off all talk of retirement, however. In late 2011, TMZ published a report saying Walters had told President Obama she was retiring soon. ABC laughed it off, and Walters proved that the story was false by very obviously not stepping down.
Read more at The Huffington Post.
