Veteran TV journalist Barbara Walters announced her retirement Monday on The View, revealing that her more than 50-year run on television will end in the summer of 2014.
Walters, whose career started on the Today Show in 1961, teased the news late Sunday on Twitter in tweet that read, “Big news — and I want to tell you first.”
“A year from now I plan to retire from appearing on television at all. It has a been an absolutely joyful, rewarding, challenging, fascinating and occasionally bumpy ride,” Walters said during her retirement segment.
“I wouldn’t change a thing. I’m perfectly healthy. This is my decision.”
“I’ve been thinking about it for a long time and this is what I want to do … My cup runneth over. I thank you, thank you, thank you.”
ABC News says Walters’ regular duties will continue throughout 2013 and the first half of next year, including reporting for ABC News, appearing on The View and anchoring a “20 Years of 10 Most Fascinating People” special in December, an Oscars special, and a career retrospective.
“There’s only one Barbara Walters,” ABC News President Ben Sherwood said in an emailed statement. “And we look forward to making her final year on television as remarkable, path-breaking and news-making as Barbara herself. Barbara will always have a home at ABC News and we look forward to a year befitting her brilliant career, filled with exclusive interviews, great adventures and indelible memories.”
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