Whoopi Goldberg Sends Birthday Love To Barbara Walters 6 Years After Journalist’s Last Public Appearance

Whoopi Goldberg Owes “View” Longevity to Barbara Walters

The Watch is honoring its creator Barbara Walters.

While the legendary journalist retired in 2014, fellow star Whoopi Goldberg couldn’t enable but give Walters a unique on-air shoutout this 7 days. “To the a single and only Barbara Walters who had a birthday yesterday,” Goldberg mentioned on the Sept. 26 episode of The Perspective. “We want to say 27 never looked so excellent.”

Walters, who set jointly the original panel of women—Debbie Matenopoulos, Star Jones, Pleasure Behar, and Meredith Vieira—in 1997, served as a host until eventually her retirement. All through the decades there have been quite a few line-up alterations, but Barbara remained a panelist on the demonstrate for all seventeen seasons.

Considering that stepping back again from the iconic Television set table, the reporter has stayed out of the spotlight. In point, Walters’ past community visual appearance was in 2016 at the New York premiere of Woody Allen‘s movie Cafe Society.