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Barbara Walters has announced who will appear on her annual "Most Fascinating People" special. 
  
 "Barbara Walters Presents: 10 Most Fascinating People 2015" will feature actors Bradley Cooper, Amy Schumer and Tracy Morgan, American Ballet Theater principal dancer Misty Copeland, Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, UFC champion Ronda Rousey and fashion designer Donna Karan. 
  
 The most fascinating person of 2015 will be announced during the ABC News special, airing on Dec. 17 at 9:30 p.m. ET. 
  
 Walters, who stepped down from "The View" panel last year, has been doing her year-end special since 1993. Last year's list included Oprah Winfrey, Neil Patrick Harris, Chelsea Handler and Scarlett Johansson. 
  
 "I was absolutely delighted when ABC approached me to do another year of ‘10 Most Fascinating People’,” said Walters. ||||| TIME’s editors will choose the Person of the Year, but that doesn’t mean readers shouldn’t have their say. Cast your vote for the person you think most influenced the news this year for better or worse. You can also vote in our face-off poll. Read more about the voting methodology here. 
  
 Voting closes at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 6, and the combined winner of our reader polls will be announced on Dec. 7. TIME’s Person of the Year will be announced Dec. 9. 
  
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 Read next: Face-Off: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year? ||||| Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders continues to enjoy a healthy lead in TIME’s Person of the Year poll with just a few days of voting left. 
  
 As of Monday evening, the Vermont Senator had 10.4% of the vote in the reader poll, down slightly from last week but still well ahead of Malala Yousafzai, who is in second place at 5.3%. And he far outpaces other presidential candidates, including Republican Donald Trump (2.1%) and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton (1.4%). 
  
 Voting on the readers’ choice poll ends Dec. 4 at 11:59 p.m., and the winner of the poll will be announced Dec. 7. While American political figures from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan have been recognized as Man of Year after winning the White House (the issue changed to Person of the Year in 1999), no presidential candidate has been named Person of the Year prior to the end of the campaign. 
  
 TIME’s editors will choose the Person of the Year, the person TIME believes most influenced the news this year for better or worse, but that doesn’t mean readers shouldn’t have their say. Cast your vote here. |||||
What is a summary?
– Next Wednesday we'll learn who Time has anointed its Person of the Year (currently leading the readers' poll: Bernie Sanders), but America will have to hold its breath for two more weeks before learning who Barbara Walters has deemed the Most Fascinating. She'll announce that person during her ABC News "Most Fascinating People" special on Dec. 17 at 9:30pm ET, but she yesterday revealed some of the 10 people who made the cut this year. Per ABC News: actor Bradley Cooper; comedians Amy Schumer and Tracy Morgan; ballerina Misty Copeland; would-be president Bernie Sanders; UFC champ Ronda Rousey; and designer Donna Karan. (Here's who took the top spot last year.)