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*Oprah: A Biography*

*Oprah: A Biography*

Oprah: A Biography BY KITTY KELLEY, ALLEN & UNWIN, $35. By the age of 19, the illegitimate girl, born to a teen single mum in the segregated Southern state of Mississippi in the ’50s, had already conquered mountains as Nashville’s first black woman TV news reporter. She was raised for her first six years by […]
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She’s still got it!

She’s still got it!

The pulling power of Whitney Houston is still as high as ever. Her exclusive interview, her first in seven years, helped the rating of Oprah’s Winfrey’s 24th season premiere soar. Rather than calling it a comeback, Oprah referred to Whitney’s re-emergence as a “coming-through” when talking on American television showEntertainment Tonight. And it seems Oprah […]
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Oprah’s secret garden

Surrounded by a sea of rose bushes, hydrangeas and dahlias, US chat show queen Oprah Winfrey’s California teahouse is the one place she can go to get away from it all, writes Janet Sternburg in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. See seven of Oprah’s stunning favourite roses here. Oprah sits on a […]
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Oprah: The woman who has everything?

Oprah: The woman who has everything?

She’s smart, rich, powerful and charismatic, yet the indomitable Oprah Winfrey might just be suffering a mid-life crisis — not about what she has, but about what she doesn’t have, discovers J. Randy Taraborrelli. The first time I met Oprah Winfrey was in February, 1984. She called to ask me to appear on a TV […]
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Oprah

America’s richest woman can’t stop giving away her fortune. We look at the demons driving TV queen Oprah Winfrey. On Boxing Day, 2005, Oprah and her longtime boyfriend, Stedman Graham, had just taken off in her private Gulfstream jet from the airport in Santa Barbara, California, near her 17-hectare estate in Montecito, when something went […]
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