Wawawawhat?: Barabara Walters Was Senator Edward Brooke’s “Other Woman”

We’ve already expressed our loathing for Barbara Walters today, but we’re nothing if not a wallower, so we’ll hammer the point home. Barbara Walters writes in her memoirs that she had an affair with former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, who was married at the time.

Walters, 78, writes in her book, “Auditions,” that the affair with former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke in the 1970s almost ended both their careers.

At the time, the twice-divorced Walters was a rising television news star and co-host of the “Today” show. When her lover, who’s now 88, told the newswoman she was the oldest woman he had ever been with, she wanted to say - but never did - “Oh yeah? Well you are the blackest man I have ever been with,” Walters writes.

Someone give this woman a medal.

We appreciate that Barbara’s main worry was her career and not, say, the fact that she was enabling lying and cheating or that she was involved with someone who would willingly cheat on his spouse.

Which brings us to this question: Have you ever cheated? Or been the “other person?” And is one worse than the other? And how are you going to manage to get the picture of of Barbara Walters yelling “Oh my Gawd! Yes yes! Wawawawawa!” out of your head?

Barbara Walters: I had an affair with married Senator Edward Brooke [NY Daily News]