Oprah Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is one of the highest paid and most watched TV celebrities of all times. Oprah is an American multiple- Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is also an influential book critic, an...
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Oprah Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is one of the highest paid and most watched TV celebrities of all times. Oprah is an American multiple- Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award -nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. According to Forbes magazine, she was the richest African American of the 20th century and the world's only Black billionaire for three straight years. Life magazine has ranked her as the most influential woman of her generation and Time magazine has ranked her as one of only four people to have shaped both the 20th century and the early 21st. In 2005, Business Week ranked her as the greatest Black philanthropist in American history.
Oprah Winfrey is not typically a source for celebrity gossip fodder. But, hey, The National Enquirer, can't make up stories about only Rachel Uchitel all the time! According to the supermarket tabloid, Oprah isn't just ending her talk show in 2011. She's soon calling it quits with very long-time boyfriend Stedman Graham. Imaginary Sources say Oprah will disappear from TV once the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is launched, help groom BFF Gayle King for her own program and end her relationship... Read Full Story
Oprah Winfrey show to end September 9th, 2011 After many years on TV Oprah is finally ending her TV show and moving on with things in her life. She is one of the wealthiest people on the planet, good for her, time to spend with her family and friends and spreading the wealth! Oprah Winfrey will end her show after its 25th season wraps in 2011, according to publicists for her production company, Harpo. This confirmation comes after speculation that Winfrey could be moving the popular... Read Full Story
CHICAGO (AP) — “ The Oprah Winfrey Show ,” an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air , Winfrey’s production company said Thursday night.
Winfrey plans to announce the final date for her show during a live broadcast on Friday, Harpo Productions Inc. said, bringing an end to what has been television’s top-rated talk show for more than... Read Full Story
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The Queen of Talk Oprah Winfrey spoke directly to viewers about ending The Oprah Winfrey Show at a live taping Friday.
The Oprah Winfrey Show will depart daytime broadcast television come Sept. 9, 2011.
After much prayer and months of careful thought, I have decided that next season, season 25, will be the last season of The Oprah Winfrey Show,” the daytime queen said. “Over the next couple of days, you may hear a lot of speculation in the press about why I am making this... Read Full Story
According to a few reputable sources ( CNN , and ABC ) Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday's "Oprah Winfrey Show" that she is ending her talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey's Harpo Productions. Harpo spokesman Don Halcombe told CNN the final show will air in September 2011. Read more for the letter to partners from Harpo President, Tim Bennet. Dear Friends: Over the past several weeks, my team and I have had conversations with many of you to help address your questions about the future... Read Full Story
It came as quite a shock to many last week when Oprah Winfrey announced that her daily talk show would be coming to an end next year. As her good friend Ellen DeGeneres and fellow female talk show host put it, "She has blazed a trail..She will always be the Queen of Daytime Television." Well, obviously.
After 25 years on the air, the legend that Oprah leaves behind will be difficult to match, but we don't think she's really going anywhere. I mean, it's Oprah--she's more of a force than an... Read Full Story
Retiring talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has set her sights on a steamy new project.
Oprah’s production company is developing a new TV series about a sexually curious Los Angeles housewife.
The HBO series is centered on a married woman who leaves her husband and children to live out her wildest sexual fantasies, according to US reports.
The news comes just days after Oprah announced she is quitting her famed talk show in 2011 after 25 years to focus on new projects with Harpo Productions... Read Full Story
Oprah Winfrey gets emotional on her talk show Friday while explaining to her audience why she decided to step down after 25 seasons on the air.
"Over the next couple of days you may hear a lot of speculation," she tells her studio audience. "I wanted you to hear this directly from me."
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Breaking down into tears, Oprah says, "Our viewers have enriched my life beyond all measure. You all have graciously invited me into your living rooms, into... Read Full Story
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Hard to imagine a world without The Oprah Winfrey Show on weekday afternoons.
But that’s exactly what the world’s going to be like after Sept. 9, 2011, which will mark the end of Winfrey’s 25th season as host of her eponymous daytime talk show—and her last show altogether.
“Yes, it’s true that she will be ending her show in September 2011,” says a rep for Harpo. “She will be speaking about it on tomorrow’s live show.”
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Oprah Winfrey will announce on her show Friday that “ The Oprah Winfrey Show ” will come to an end on Sept. 9, 2011 , after 25 years, according to ABC’s Chicago affiliate, KABC.
The announcement would put an end to weeks of speculation that Winfrey may leave daytime syndication and possibly move her show to OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, Winfrey’s joint venture with Discovery Communications.
Harpo Prods., which produces the “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” could not be reached for comment... Read Full Story
