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‘The View’s’ Hail Mary: Barbara Walters Is Back

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With Rosie Perez’s departure from the daytime chat show imminent, ABC denies the show is headed for the chopping block. Its doyenne returns Friday.

Barbara Walters appeared as a guest co-host in December, but on Friday, when she returns to the show she co-created, it will be to a View freshly ensconced in uproar and talk of possible extinction.

One panelist, Rosie Perez, is leaving after only four months in the job, and the morning...

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