Media | Chris Christie Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2012 Is... ...David Petraeus By Evann Gastaldo Posted Dec 13, 2012 10:03 AM CST Copied In this Monday, July 18, 2011 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus salutes during a changing of command ceremony from Petraeus to Gen. John Allen in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq, File Sadeq) Barbara Walters unveiled her most fascinating person of the year last night: General David Petraeus. The sex-scandal-plagued former CIA director's extramarital affair and shocking resignation was a story that Walters deemed "irresistible" during her annual special. "The keeper of the nation's secrets unable to conceal his own." She didn't actually interview Petraeus, but she did sit down with others who made the list—including Chris Christie, who said it's "ridiculous" that critics think he's too overweight to be president, the AP reports. Read These Next Democratic leaders sit out bid to impeach Trump. Venezuela responds to the US seizure of an oil tanker. Audi Crooks of Iowa State may do what no college player has ever done. Liam Neeson's reps have some PR spin to do over an anti-vax film. Report an error