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HOLLYWOOD - ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer will be the first reporter to interview talk show host Rosie O'Donnell about her homosexuality. Sawyer reportedly beat out bids by fellow news anchor Barbara Walters and NBC's Katie Couric.The interview comes mere weeks prior to the publication of O'Donnell's autobiography Find Me in April. According to Reuters, a spokesman for Warner Books, the books publisher's, confirmed that O'Donnell does talk about her romantic relationships with women, but that her sexuality is not the main focus of the book.
O'Donnell has often been blasted by the media for living in a glass closet and selectively using her personal life for ratings, like the time she installed a camera in her nursery for her audience. Although she has never denied being gay, she has never admitted to it either.
But O'Donnell is bowing out of her show at the end of the season. Coupling that with her appearance on Will & Grace as a lesbian single mother seems to indicate that O'Donnell may be on the verge of coming out publicly.
Walters, however, may have already done that.
On The View on Thursday, Walters said she called O'Donnell and asked if she would discuss an item in the New York Post about her sexuality. Walters said O'Donnell told her she is not concerned about what people are saying, but is worried about the subject of her adopted children. Florida, where O'Donnell has a home, bans adoptions by gays.
Sawyer's interview with O'Donnell, which was taped Thursday, is scheduled to air in March.