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Posted on Dec 09, 2011 @ 06:00PM - 15 comments
By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter
Rosie O'Donnell to Broadcast New Talk Show From Oprah's Harpo Studios
Posted on Mar 29, 2011 @ 11:37AM - 8 comments
Oprah Winfrey may be moving out of her beloved Harpo Studios -- but look who's moving in!
Rosie O'Donnell has announced that when she premieres her highly-anticipated new talk show this fall, her show will broadcast out of the very same Chicago-based studio Oprah founded some 25-years ago.
Michael Vick Cancels Interview With Oprah For 'Personal Reasons'
Posted on Feb 16, 2011 @ 06:25PM - 10 comments
In what some might consider a cardinal sin, Michael Vick has cancelled his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, RadarOnline.com has learned.
According to a statement released by Oprah's company, the football player backed out of the interview.
Oprah To Reveal A Huge Family Secret That 'Shook Me To My Core'
Posted on Jan 21, 2011 @ 04:00PM - Add a comment
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey will reveal a family secret that she said "literally shook to my core" on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Monday, RadarOnline.com is reporting.
"I thought I'd seen it all... but this, my friends, is the miracle of all miracles," Winfrey says in a commercial for the show.
Oprah's 'Real' Dad: 'Speak To Me, Before I Die.'
Posted on Apr 17, 2010 @ 09:11AM - 17 comments
An ailing 84-year-old man who claims to be Oprah Winfrey's long lost father has begged the TV queen to submit to a paternity test -- before he dies.
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Noah Robinson Senior -- who the National Enquirer first identified in 2003 -- has also revealed that, years ago, he tried to reach the talk-show star to beg her to agree to a DNA test.
"I told her [in a letter], if she wanted, I'd give her one," Robinson told The New York Post.
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In the letter, he placed mementos from his life, including his Social Security number and a picture of him from the Navy in World War II, he said.
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"I never got no answer," Robinson said.
"I never did get no answer. If I did, it didn't get to me."
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The Mississippi farmer, now living in a rural VA hospital, said his dream is to speak with Oprah as father and daughter before he dies.
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The World War 2 veteran insisted he wasn't looking to get his hands on Oprah's millions.
"I'd like her to call me," he said.
"I'm her real father. I haven't seen her since she was a kid. She was a little bitty thing."
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Oprah's spokeswoman said the TV host wasn't available to comment on Robinson's claims.
Oprah grew up thinking her mother Vernita's longtime boyfriend, Vernon Winfrey, was her biological father.
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While she began a search in 2003 for her real father, Oprah is said to still consider Vernon her father.
Bombshell Book Claims Oprah Afraid Of Being Assassinated
Posted on Apr 14, 2010 @ 06:41AM - 10 comments
Oprah Winfrey is terrified of assassination. That’s one of the the claims Kitty Kelley makes in her bombshell new book, Oprah: a Biography, and the media mogul has taken broad steps to have incredibly tight security in her life. Kelley says Oprah has muti-level security precautions at her Harpo production offices.
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“Reflecting Oprah’s fear of assassination, her studio is a fortress,” Kelley writes in the book. Filled with salacious details about her personal life as well as a chronology of her rise to power, the book offers a glimpse into the life of Winfrey.
Oprah On Trial! Judge Denies Her Attempt To Dismiss Lawsuit
Posted on Mar 17, 2010 @ 06:00PM - 3 comments
What Oprah Winfrey wants, Oprah Winfrey gets! But not always. Although she is known as one of the most powerful and influential women ever, she still is caught up in the judicial system, RadarOnline.com can report.
The daytime talk show queen is being sued for defamation by Lerato Nomvuyo Mzamane, former headmistress at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. Winfrey's request for dismissal of the case was recently denied.
EXCLUSIVE: Employees Blast Oprah For Making Them Sign No-Phone Pledge
Posted on Feb 11, 2010 @ 01:30AM - 43 comments
Many of Oprah Winfrey’s employees are angry that she made them sign a pledge not to use their phones while driving, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
Oprah started her “no phone zone pledge” after taping a program that featured a young couple who lost their daughter after a man, who was talking on his cell phone, hit their SUV.
And while Oprah’s heart is certainly in the right place, many felt her tactics were heavy-handed and that she shouldn’t be ruling their lives.
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Sources told RadarOnline.com exclusively that many employees are very unhappy they can’t use their hands-free devices in their own cars. “Some were complaining that they had just purchased hands-free devices and now they can’t use them,” one source told RadarOnline.com. “They’re worried this will hurt them from doing their jobs. Some employees talk on the phone while drive because they are under deadlines and their jobs are not 9-to-5.”
Oprah did not force the employees to sign the pledge. “But it was pretty clear to everyone that it would not be good to resist signing it,” one insider told RadarOnline.com. “You don’t mess with Oprah.”
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All Oprah employees were approached and asked to sign the pledge. “They all felt pressure and Oprah’s people even taped some people signing it,” the insider added.
Many employees support the pledge, which reads:
“I pledge to make my car a No Phone Zone. Beginning right now, I will do my part to help put an end to distracted driving by not texting or using my phone while I am driving. I will ask other drivers I know to do the same. I pledge to make a difference.”
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But others simply feel Oprah has stepped too far into their lives. “Of course Oprah can sign the pledge, she’s in the back of a limo all the time, texting away,” one insider joked.
Other staffers are stressed out that they will be caught talking on the phone while driving. And yes, the insider told RadarOnline.com, many employees signed the pledge and have already violated it.
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The bottom line, said many people, is that Oprah’s intentions are good but many employees simply believe she has crossed a line too far into their personal lives.
Oprah Quits!
Posted on Nov 19, 2009 @ 10:48PM - 30 comments
The Queen of daytime TV is officially ending her reign.
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Oprah Winfrey's production company, Harpo, released a statement Thursday saying Oprah will announce the date of her last show on a Friday taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
The last show will be at the end of the 25th season on September 25th, 2011.
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The announcement comes after months of speculation that Oprah would not be renewing her contract when it expires in two years time.
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In January Oprah announced the launch of her own TV network, aptly named OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, in conjunction with Discovery Communications.
OWN's mission is to create multiple platforms for women, men and their families with a purpose and a passion: to celebrate life, to inspire and entertain, empowering viewers around the world to live their best lives, and by doing so, lift the lives of those around them in ever-widening circles.
It is thought that Oprah plans to move her hit show to the OWN network, which is as of yet to launch.
Oprah Jumps Back Into the Movie Business
Posted on Sep 17, 2009 @ 03:10AM - 1 comment
Oprah Winfrey is setting her sights back onto the big screen. The media mogul is taking her book club love one step further by producing a film adaptation of a book she optioned last year.
Teaming up with Focus Features and director (and Kate Winslet hubby) Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productions, Winfrey -- through her company Harpo Productions -- will bring Netherland to movie theaters.
The book is set in New York City where a lonely Dutch expatriate forms a bond to immigrant culture when he becomes drawn to the sport of cricket.
