Los Angeles: Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey will be doing her first-ever live chat with social media website Facebook on Thursday, September 8. Facebook users can tune into the hour-long live video chat on the site at 1:30 pm edt, and can leave questions for Winfrey on the page wall created for the event. The 57 year-old Winfrey has embraced social media. She has almost 6.3 million fans on Facebook...
12:37 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Los Angeles: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says the three will be honored with Oscar statuettes at the Governors Awards in November. The academy's Board of Governors voted Tuesday to recognize the entertainment industry veterans. Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which honors philanthropic and humanitarian contributions. The 57-year-old media mogul, who was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for 1985's The Color Purple, supports...
11:59 AM, Aug 03, 2011
London: Former talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is now set to teach students of her school, which she established in South Africa. Winfrey opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for girls in Henley on Klip, south of Johannesburg, in 2007, and she will teach a lesson titled "It's Life 101". "(Teaching) should be fun since I love to teach. And they're like sponges. Like 12th graders everywhere, this first class...
03:13 PM, Jul 07, 2011
A look into Oprah Winfrey's different avatars over the years. ...
04:43 PM, May 27, 2011
It's the end of an era in US television as the last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired on Wednesday night. CNN's Karin Caifa looks at how fans are feeling, and the place Oprah will take in pop culture history. ...
10:07 AM, May 26, 2011
May 25 will see the last airing of the Oprah Winfrey Show, which has been a fixture for 25 years. Here's a special tribute from fans and celebs. ...
01:37 PM, May 21, 2011
Oprah Winfrey made her 4559 appearance on her show along with many Hollywood biggies. ...
01:37 PM, May 19, 2011
London: With Tom Cruise, Halle Berry, Will Smith, Beyonce and other such A-list stars present, TV titan Oprah Winfrey got a "joyous" farewell. The chat show queen was "beyond joyous" after the stars turned up to the Chicago recording of her final three shows. The United Centre in Chicago was also packed with over 20,000 people who gathered to watch the end of a chat show era, reports thesun.co.uk. Winfrey...
07:40 PM, May 18, 2011
Chicago: Hollywood's A-list celebrities bid a star-studded farewell to Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday in a double-taping of her talk show that included messages from her fans around the world. "I feel the love and I thank you for it," Winfrey told the crowd at Chicago's United Center. "Thank you for being a part of this great night, this celebration of what you have done for 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' You...
10:49 AM, May 18, 2011
Chicago: What do you get the woman who has everything and has given away just about everything? On Wednesday, outgoing Chicago Mayor Richard Daley gave another departing Chicago institution, Oprah Winfrey, a civic version of a parting gift: Her own street. Daley, who will leave office next week after more than 22 years, honored Winfrey by naming a block in front of Harpo Studios "Oprah Winfrey Way." Winfrey is ending...
02:51 PM, May 12, 2011
London: Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey's school for the girls in South Africa is in trouble once again after the body of a newborn baby was found in a bag belonging to a teenage student. The 17-year-old, identified as the dead baby's mother, handed over the bag containing the infant to hospital staff after she was admitted with excessive bleeding last week. The authorities believe the girl gave birth at...
04:47 PM, Feb 20, 2011
Chicago: Oprah Winfrey has discovered she has a half-sister - a Milwaukee woman who was given up for adoption by Winfrey's mother nearly 50 years ago, when the talk show host was eight years old. An emotional Winfrey introduced her newly found sibling to viewers Monday and explained the woman's persistent quest to find her birth mother. "This, my friends, is the miracle of all miracles," Winfrey said before bringing...
11:17 AM, Jan 25, 2011
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey candidly opened up about her teen pregnancy admitting she was relieved to have suffered a miscarriage as she had no connection with the baby. Winfrey confessed that she knew that she became pregnant "because of bad choices and not having boundaries and the abuse, sexual abuse, from the time I was nine", reports a website. "I knew then that when I lost that baby, for...
12:21 PM, Jan 20, 2011
London: Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey candidly opened up about her teen pregnancy admitting she was relieved to have suffered a miscarriage as she had no connection with the baby. Winfrey confessed that she knew that she became pregnant because of "bad choices and not having boundaries and the abuse, sexual abuse, from the time I was nine", reports dailystar.co.uk. "I knew then that when I lost that baby, for...
10:13 PM, Jan 19, 2011
Noted Indian American physician-TV presenter Sanjay Gupta figures among Forbes' 10 'Most Influential Celebrities', with famed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg narrowly edging out television show host Oprah Winfrey for the top spot. "The CNN personality was almost named US surgeon general in 2009, but withdrew his name when it looked like too many members of congress would oppose his appointment," the US business magazine said, ranking Gupta eighth in its...
11:04 AM, Jan 14, 2011
Los Angeles: Oprah Winfrey's bold gamble on her OWN TV network debuted to mostly positive reviews and encouraging audience numbers at the weekend, winning over some cynics with its feel-good tone. But many stalwart Oprah fans expressed dismay that they could not receive the new OWN network without paying to upgrade their cable television packages -- money that several said they could not afford. The OWN network, a joint venture...
12:40 PM, Jan 04, 2011
London: TV mogul Oprah Winfrey tops the list of Hollywood's rich of the year compiled by Forbes magazine. Oprah takes the top spot on the newly-released Hollywood's 20 Highest-Earning of 2010 with an estimated $ 315 million, while the success of "Avatar" has put director James Cameron in second place with an estimated $ 210 million earning, reports contactmusic.com. Filmmaker Tyler Perry is on third spot with $125 million. Steven...
12:34 PM, Dec 28, 2010
New York: The talk show host has selected a pair of Dickens classics, "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations." The two novels are being issued in a single bound Penguin paperback edition, around 800 pages, with a list price of $20. The electronic version, also from Penguin, sells for $7.99. Because the copyright has long expired on the 19th-century novels, they are available through a variety of publishers...
01:38 PM, Dec 06, 2010
