Though it’s just a joke to most, it was a true honor for the humble journalist.
“I loved it,” she later admitted on “The View.”
Through all those years, there’s a lot we’ve learned about Vieira.
However, there are still a few things you never knew about this successful television host.
“Because I thought, you know, ‘That’s going to be cute.'”
As it turned out, Vieira’s assumptions about working in a radio station had been totally wrong.
Needless to say, her manager was less than impressed with how she was dressed.
“He looked at me like, ‘Why do you have overalls on?'”
“It didn’t look professional.”
“I think that they found me enduring.
They decided, well, ‘We’re going to give her a chance,'” she said.
“And they did.”
Growing up, Vieira was an extremely shy child.
Throughout her career in news, she loved telling other people’s stories from safely behind the scenes.
“I didn’t have to be showcased.
I didn’t want to be,” shesaid.
“And then ‘The View’ came along.”
“I’m not a morning person,” she said on “Today with Hoda & Jenna.”
“I was going to bed at 11:00 at night, and getting up at 2,” shesaid.
“I felt so torn about it and really tired,” sheadmitted.
Even so, Vieira has still appeared every so often as a guest host on the national morning show.
“Being home with my husbandI think was really important,” she toldTV Line.
For fun, she decided to enroll in a radio reporting class during her final semester.
It was then that she began to stand out.
In fact, she’s truly terrified of traveling by plane.
“I never travel without my stuffed Sylvester Puddy Tat,” she toldThe Boston Globe.
The stuffed feline has been flying with Vieira on every airplane ride for the last 40 years.
Crazy enough, Vieira didn’t even want to audition for the show in the first place.
“I auditioned because Richard, my husband, suggested I do it,” she admitted.
“I wasn’t going to.”
She had three small children at home and wanted to spend as much time with them as she could.
After her audition in a hotel room, Vieira told her husband something she never expected to say.
“I came home that night and said, ‘I can’t believe this.
I actually had a great time,'” she reminisced.
Shortly after, she landed the job.
“I am addicted,” she admitted one day on hertalk show.
Vieira also often dished withother celebrity guestsabout how much she loved the show.
“I cannot get enough of that.”
Still, that is only part of what it takes to create an intriguing interview.
“And if the other person has barriers up, it’s tough,” shesaid.
“Now, I actually get a little angry,” Vieira admitted onher talk show.
“I get a little angry, because I don’t actually think I’m that bad.”
Yet, this exchange is what inspired some of Vieira’s content moving forward.
where she, along with a celebrity chef, taught women how to make tasty meals.
During many episodes, this special segment turned into a cooking lesson for Vieira, too.
“But, apparently, one of my kids doesn’t agree.”
“I could get very used to this,” shelaughedduring the segment.
“I like this.”
“The minute I cross the Bourne Bridge, my whole body relaxes,” she toldThe Boston Globe.
She instantly fell in love with the area and eventually purchased her own vacation home there with her husband.
“I like the Cape because it’s scruffy,” Vieira toldParade.
“I would love to be refined, but I’m not.
I wouldn’t fit in in the Hamptons.
I fit in here; it just feels comfortable.”
However, “my husband nixed that immediately,” she said on “Good Morning America.”
“And I brought in some of my furniture.”
“Right now, I don’t want to be part of that.
I find the times right now very difficult and depressing.”
and “25 Words or Less.”
“I knew how to relax them.
I knew how to ask them questions.
I knew how to listen.
And all those things are important even in a show like that.”
Vieira is very proud of the ability to host so many different types of shows.
