Barbara Walters Admits Affair With Married U.S. senator

Barbara Walters seems to be the model citizen in all of her television shows and appearances but it turns out she has been holding a secret for some time now, a secret that was no 'little white lie'. The TV star admits in her new book that while she was co-host of NBC's "Today" show she was having a sexual love affair with Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, a married man. Walters said the affair was "exciting" and "brilliant." This hot news item is disclosed in her new book, a memoir called "Audition," which covers her long career in television, as well as her off-camera life. The star will appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Tuesday and will share details of her relationship with the Senator that lasted several years in the 1970s. Brooke was a married man at the time and they both knew that public knowledge of the affair would ruin his career, so it was never talked about even after the affair ended. CNN is reporting that according to a transcript from the Oprah show this the episode will include a conversation between Winfrey and Walters about a phone call from a friend who urged Walters to stop seeing Brooke.

"He said, 'This is going to come out. This is going to ruin your career,' " then reminded her that Brooke was up for re-election a year later. " 'This is going to ruin him. You've got to break this off.' "

Winfrey asks Walters if she was in love.

"I was certainly -- I don't know -- I was certainly infatuated."

"Infatuated."

"I was certainly involved," Walters says. "He was exciting. He was brilliant. It was exciting times in Washington."

It just goes to show that we are all imperfect people and even the stars on television that we seem to separate from the real world are still out there doing the naughty little things that no one likes to talk about or be caught doing. Shame Shame Barbara. I see a Saturday Night Live skit in the future covering this very topic.