Oprah Winfrey will be making her return to television with a “small screen venture” where she will visit celebrities at his or her homes. The first episode, featuring Stephen Tyler, will air January 1 on her network OWN! “After 25 years I got myself out of the studio chairs. I moved into the next chapter, […]
Oprah Winfrey’s best freind, Gayle King, will be joining CBS’s The Early Show as a co-host, the New York Times is reporting. See also: Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones Receive Honorary Oscars At Governors Awards See also: More than Common…Extraordinary! According to the Times, King along with Charlie Rose are being added to the lineup to compete with NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good […]
Oprah Winfrey will be the recipient of an Academy Award this year, and no it’s not a retrograde honor for her role in Steven Spielberg’s adaption of “The Color Purple.” Ms. Winfrey will be awarded the 2011 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This is an honorary award […]
After months of failing to live up to the success of her extraordinarily popular television talk show, Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network is undergoing a makeover. According to Forbes, Winfrey and Discovery Communications are upping the network’s advertising push as well as featuring two of the network’s biggest stars, Winfrey herself and Rosie O’Donnell. Adding to a […]
Oprah Winfrey is the highest-earning woman in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. The former talk show host earned $290 million from May 2010 to May 2011, besting the second place earner, Lady Gaga, by $200 million. Take a look at the full list below: 1. Oprah Winfrey -$290 million 2. Lady Gaga – $90 million […]
Tyler Perry may be following in Oprah Winfrey’s footsteps by getting his own cable network. Word is the Atlanta-based filmmaker may be forming Tyler TV. According to the NY Times, Tyler TV, which is still a working title, is intended as a home base for Perry — just as Winfrey, one of Perry’s most ardent […]
The hardest working woman in showbiz is back to work after a brief hiatus. After relieving Christina Norman as CEO of her OWN network, Oprah tweeted a pic of herself in her new office digs in L.A. “Here I am “CEO-ing” in my new office at OWN in LA!!” Winfrey’s channel, which went live in […]
Someone just pissed Oprah off!! Oprah Winfrey was just rejected by Jenny McCarthy, who had signed a development deal in 2009 to create a series for OWN. Jenny is leaving the network and taking her show concept to NBC, a source tells Fox News. “Jenny wasn’t thrilled with the direction that OWN producers were going […]
The former queen of daytime Oprah Winfrey is now a CEO. Oprah Winfrey, whose successful talk show ended in May after 25 years, was named on Wednesday the chief executive and chief creative officer of OWN, the cable network she launched with Discovery Communications earlier this year. Winfrey posted a letter on Facebook today, explaining […]
O.J Simpson has reportedly confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he murdered his former wife, Nicole Simpson Brown. Oprah made headlines recently saying that one of her regrets was never having got the disgraced football player to confess to the killing. “I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me,” she said at the National […]
CHICAGO– A group of Morehouse College students surprised Oprah during the “Farewell Spectacular” on Tuesday. The men are amongst a group of 400 recipients of a Oprah Winfrey scholarship. Paying it forward is one of the ways the men have chosen to thank Oprah for their gift. Collectively, they have pledged over $300,000 to keep […]
Oprah Winfrey has revealed the real reason why she’s ending her daytime talk show after 25 years on the air. In an editorial published in her ‘O’ magazine this month, Oprah revealed that a dying 12-year-old boy told her to end her show at the 25-year mark: Winfrey says that Mattie Stepanek – a child […]
