TERRI IRWIN TO DO INTERVIEW ON 9-27-2006 ON ABC

US news queen (BARBARA WALTERS) to meet Terri Irwin
Wednesday Sep 20 07:45 AEST
American news queen Barbara Walters has scored an exclusive TV interview with Terri and Bindi Irwin.
Walters will fly to Australia on Thursday for a sit down interview with Steve Irwin's wife and eight-year-old daughter for a one-hour special to be aired on America's ABC TV network next week.

Walters, 74, said Irwin's son, Bob, 2, would not take part.

"I'm going to go to Brisbane, Australia, to do an interview with Terri Irwin and with their little girl, Bindi," Walters announced.

"The little boy is too young."

The interview is a worldwide coup for Walters and America's ABC TV network following the freak September 4 stingray death of Irwin on the Great Barrier Reef.

"His wife has not talked to anyone about this," Walters said.

Walters said topics she will discuss with Terri include what her relationship was like with her husband and how she was informed of his death.

"It's an assignment I'm absolutely thrilled to have," Walters said.

"I think people want to know more about him.

"It was a tragic case."

The one-hour special will be aired in the US next Wednesday (September 27) and should reap huge ratings for ABC as Irwin, through his Crocodile Hunter documentaries, was a much-loved TV star in America.

Walters announced she had scored the exclusive interview on her morning TV talkshow in the US, The View.