Geraldo Admits He Was In Love With Barbara Walters But She Rejected Him, Makes Racially Charged Comment About Her Lover

Geraldo Admits He Was In Love With Barbara Walters But She Rejected Him, Makes Racially Charged Comment About Her Lover

Update: In addition to making the racially-charged joke below, Geraldo admitted that he was "in love" with Barbara Walters in the 1970s and she rejected his advances. "I'll tell you one affair she didn't have," he told the co-hosts. "I put all my best moves on Barbara. ...I had been in love. I had a huge crush on Barbara." But Geraldo says she "gave [him] the brush off," pinching his cheek and saying, "Oh, you're so cute."

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Original Post: This morning on "Fox & Friends," Geraldo Rivera made an offensive and racially-charged joke about Barbara Walters' affair with married Senator Edward Brooke, who is black. Barbara told Oprah yesterday (in a show to air next week) that she had an affair in the 1970s with the Republican Senator from Massachusetts.

"Once you go black, you don't go back," Geraldo joked.

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