Whoopi Goldberg Mourns Barbara Walters On ‘View’ Tribute Episode: ‘There’s Nobody Like Her’

Whoopi Goldberg paid tribute to Barbara Walters after her decease astatine the property of 93. The Oscar winner, 67, paid tribute to her erstwhile co-host during an occurrence of The View, celebrating Barbara’s beingness connected Tuesday, January 3. Before going to a commercialized break, Whoopi perfectly summarized the icon’s career. “There was cipher similar her,” she said. “She’s the first, and determination are galore of america duplicates, but there’ll ne'er beryllium different Barbara Walters.

Barbara’s decease was confirmed by her longtime erstwhile leader ABC News connected Friday, Dec. 30. In a connection to HollywoodLife, her rep said that she “passed distant peacefully successful her location surrounded by loved ones. She lived her beingness with nary regrets. She was a trailblazer not lone for pistillate journalists, but for each women.”

Since Barbara’s passing, galore of her former View co-hosts person paid tribute to the pistillate who created the beloved speech show connected societal media, including Rosie O’Donnell, Lisa Ling, and more. Joy Behar, who is the lone archetypal big inactive connected the show, spoke astir the legendary broadcaster successful an interrogation connected ABC. “She became a mentor. She’s precise overmuch the relation exemplary for a batch of radical successful showbiz and the quality satellite for sure,” Joy said. “I’ll miss her.”

Barbara Walters is seen connected the acceptable of ‘The View’ with Whoopi Goldberg, who joined the bid successful 2007. (Everett Collection)

Whoopi and Barbara began a moving narration erstwhile the Sister Act actress joined the bid arsenic moderator successful 2007, a decennary aft Barbara launched the trailblazing speech show. The View first went to aerial successful 1997, with archetypal hosts Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, and Debbie Matenopoulos, with Joy Behar rounding retired the radical soon after. Whoopi inactive holds the existent relation arsenic amusement moderator.

Barbara retired from The View in 2014 astatine the property of 85, and dilatory led a much backstage beingness successful caller years. Her 5 decennary career, however, volition beryllium everlastingly remembered: done her clip successful television, she earned 12 Emmy Awards, 11 of which were with ABC News. In 1997, she launched the first-ever each pistillate speech amusement with The View, erstwhile again breaking a solid ceiling and going to animate aboriginal shows like The Talk and The Real.

After her death, Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company — which includes ABC — paid tribute to her. “Barbara was a existent legend, a pioneer not conscionable for women successful journalism but for journalism itself,” helium wrote. “She was a one-of-a-kind newsman who landed galore of the astir important interviews of our time, from heads of authorities to the biggest celebrities and sports icons. I had the pleasance of calling Barbara a workfellow for much than 3 decades, but much importantly, I was capable to telephone her a beloved friend,” helium added.

“She volition beryllium missed by each of america astatine The Walt Disney Company, and we nonstop our deepest condolences to her daughter, Jacqueline,” helium besides said.

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