“She told me to go f—k myself”: Howard Stern Regrets Denying Barbara Walters One Request Despite Being Close Friends With Her

Barbara Walters had created a prestigious TV show, Barbara Walters’ 10 Most Fascinating People to honor a compilation of 10 people from a plethora of fields. And she had obliged the Private Parts star by inviting him to be on the show. But Stern being Stern, he flatly refused and for a self-proclaimed imbecilic reason too.

“[Barbara Walters] called me — I was such a d*** — she called and wanted me to be one a Barbara Walters’ special. It was a big deal. If you were on [the show] it meant you were someone.”

But instead of feeling proud of the honor, the radio host had quite a contrasting response,

“She called up my agent and she said, ‘I named Howard one of the 10 most fascinating people of the [year]’. I said to my agent, ‘You know, that’s kinda weird. Who are the other 9 people?’ Because sometimes it’s like Charo. Sometimes it’s like Honey Boo Boo. So, I had the nerve to tell my agent to ‘please call Barbara Walters and say, ‘No, I don’t want to be on it. If you want to just interview me [then, yes]. But I don’t want to be on it with 9 other people’. I think I’m all 10 most fascinating people. Of course, she told me to go f*** myself, more or less. But in the nicest of ways.”