Before Stedman Graham won her heart, Oprah Winfrey was head over heels – and even talking marriage – with handsome model and filmmaker Reginald Chevalier.
It’s been a year full of surprises for Oprah Winfrey, with the talk-show queen being shaken to her core by the discovery of her secret half-sister, Patricia, as well as a niece and a nephew.
And now the television legend’s world is being rocked again by another not-so-pleasant shock – the revelation of her first great love, Haitian filmmaker Reginald Chevalier. Speaking for the first time about his hush-hush affair with Oprah back in 1985, Reginald, now 51, says the star made his life a living hell. “She was cold as ice,” he claims.
Sparks first flew between the pair when Reginald appeared on a segment about celebrity look-alikes on Oprah’s show. At the time, he was a dead ringer for actor Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars trilogy – and Oprah, now 57, thought he was hot! “She later confided that she instructed her producers to keep me backstage after the show,” says Reginald, in an interview with the Gawker.com website. “She threatened to fire them if I got away.”
Then 32 and suddenly famous after her eponymous show shot to the top of the ratings, Oprah took her 25-year-old boy toy on a cosy lunch date at Chicago’s Water Tower restaurant, where she ordered stuffed mashed potatoes for both of them.
Soon they were spending every night together, attending Chicago Bears football games, and rubbing shoulders with stars such as basketball legend Michael Jordan and actor Danny Glover. “She loved taking candlelit baths before going to bed,” Reginald confides. “We took lots of them together.”
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