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April 7, 2012
David Burtka enjoying new role interviewing celebrities for E!

Partner of Neil Patrick Harris has gotten Elton John and others to open up

It wasn't Oprah or Barbara Walters who got Elton John to open up in a recent interview about being bullied as an adult by some people in his professional life.

It was David Burtka, now a correspondent for E! Entertainment, who got the Rocket Man to share certain details from his painful past for the first time.

April 7, 2012
Transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova began hormone treatments at 14

Had been temporarily banned from competing in Miss Universe Canada

Just a few weeks ago, Barbara Walters probably would not have had much interest in interviewing Miss Universe Canada contestant Jenna Talackova.

But once the Miss Universe Organization said Talackova could not compete in the pageant because she was not born female, she became a big story and is profiled by Walters tonight (6 April) on ABC's 20/20.

December 15, 2011
TV's Modern Family couple talk about being bullied

Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson tell Barbara Walters on TV special tonight that both were targets of bullies as kids

They play a gay couple on television but in real life, Eric Stonestreet is straight and Jesse Tyler Ferguson is not.

But Barbara Walters, who interviews the pair on her annual 10 Most Fascinating People of the Year special which airs on ABC tonight, says she learned the two 'have a great deal in common besides what they play' on television.

Both share on the special that they were bullied as kids.