After missing a lot of screentime already this year due to illness, 83-year old legend Barbara Walters officially announced her career retirement on The View. 

Check out her emotional announcement after the break.

What will ABC News look like when Barbara Walters retires in 2014? [USA Today]

A sign of things to come: a NY doctor's offices gender neutral bathroom sign [Towleroad]

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News spread like wild fire last week that Elisabeth Hasselbeck was getting the boot from The View, but it appears that  the celebrations we witnessed across the interwebz may have been premature. 

Barbara Walters cleared up the rumors of Elisabeth's supposed departure today.

Details after the jump!

The 455th season of American Idol debuts next week so of course its time to pimp out the catfight (however authentic or marketing-department orchestrated it is) between Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj. The elder diva, Mimi, sat down with Barbara Walters on Nightline this week to discuss the feud and immediately won the entire fiasco, hands down, ankles up, with a simple eye-roll and sassy line delivered with perfection. 

Hand over all the awards and meet us after the break to watch as Mariah throws down the SHADE OF IT ALL.

Barbara Walters sat down for a 20/20 interview with adorable tween, Jazz.

Babs previously met Jazz at age 5 when she was believed to be the youngest transgender child. Now Barbara is getting an exclusive update. So what's the topic at hand? 

Boys, of course.

Babs asks Jazz about her impending steps into the dating world after the jump!

We're not surprised that Lindsay Lohan got shafted on Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating People of 2012 list, but some of the celebrities who did make the cut might evoke a few chin scratches. 

Apparently there was nothing fake about the chemistry between Kirstie Alley and John Travolta back in the Look Who's Talking days. 

They were in love, y'all! 

Or at least Kirstie was in love with John. Was this a typical "straight girl falls in love with her (ALLEGEDLY) gay BFF" situation or were Kirstie and John truly a star-crossed pair?

Kirstie tells all to Barbara Walters as she promotes her new memoir, The Art of Men, after the jump!

The ladies of The View sounded off today on Donald Trump's anti-climactic "announcement" yesterday that was supposed be a game-changer in the Presidential election. 

And surprisingly, it's his dear friend Barbara Walters that let's him have it.

Barbara goes IN after the jump. 

The talented Charlie Hides leaves the Madonna and Lady Gaga drag in the closet for the first time in a while to deftly impersonate Brit Brit and Barbara Walters in a hilarious interview that's lost in translation. Check out the latest from Charlie Hides, after the jump!

The inimitable Barbara Walters has just been announced as the emcee of a very special one year anniversary party taking place in New York in September. Details follow. 

And people accuse us of having one-track minds!

The ladies of The View are apparently fixated on one thing:

SEX.

And they've edited this nifty, auto-tuned clip to prove it.

Barbara, we're blushing!

NBA legend and new L.A. Dodgers owner, Magic Johnson stopped by to chat with the ladies of The View this week!

Conversation quickly turned to Magic's long (and successful) battle with HIV.

Check out what the mogul (he bought the Dodgers for $2 BILLION, folks) has to say about thriving while living with HIV.