Oprah Winfrey

May 31, 2013 Celebrity Highlights

Talk show host, entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey put on a cap and gown on Thursday to receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Harvard University, and then gave a commencement speech.

Oprah Winfrey Receives Honorary Degree, Gives Commencement Speech at Harvard
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Winfrey, 59, told graduates they were bound to stumble, no matter how high they might rise, but that "there is no such thing as failure -- failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."
May 03, 2013 Magazine Covers

In the June 2013 issue of Essence magazine, cover stars Winfrey and Tyler Perry describe the ways they've helped and inspired each other through the years.

Oprah and Tyler Perry on Their Amazing Friendship
Essence Magazine
"We both know how rare this is," Oprah told the mag. "Where else in the history of our African-American culture have two really, really successful people who can do whatever they want said, 'Let’s come together and be even more powerful -- let’s take it to the tenth power?'"
April 25, 2013 As Seen On Extra
“Extra’s” A.J. Calloway caught up with comedian Steve Harvey to chat about his talk show and more.
 
When asked how he felt about being Oprah’s heir apparent, he called her “once in a lifetime,” and joked that he is “Little O.”
 
Watch!

April 08, 2013 Magazine Covers
Oprah Winfrey knows how to age gracefully.

In a behind-the-scenes video of her May O Magazine photo shoot on her Maui ranch, the TV legend talks about being 59-years-old.

“I stand here at 59 years old and so happy to claim every single part of the journey… I don't understand women lying about their age and everybody dreading getting older. It makes me nuts that people get crazy about it!”

Check out the clip!


The May issue of O Magazine is on newsstands April 16!
March 15, 2013 Hot Topics
One thing is for sure about TV maven Oprah Winfrey… she’s got a great sense of humor.
 
Winfrey recently made an appearance on “The Steve Harvey Show” and addressed Terrence Howard's appreciation on her "tig ol bitties” in their onscreen love scene in “The Butler.”


Oprah explained she is in the upcoming Lee Daniels movie, and that the scene “was supposed to be a little scene,” but “because Terrence Howard misbehaved, it turned into a bigger scene, and then a bigger scene. He's a misbehaving kind of boy. I heard him... he was on Twitter the other day talking about my breasteses."
March 06, 2013 Movies
Actor Terrence Howard said he really enjoyed shooting love scenes with Oprah Winfrey.
 
Promoting his film, “Dead Man Down,” Howard talked to MovieFanatic.com about his other upcoming film, “The Butler,” in which he and Winfrey have a love affair.
 
"Oprah and I had such chemistry. To be able to make out with Oprah and to have love scenes with her and those tig ol' bitties,” Howard laughed. “She's such a voluptuous woman. She’s very, very beautiful. That was wonderful."
 
Watch the interview!

February 22, 2013 The A List

“Extra’s” Renee Bargh caught up with Oprah Winfrey at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon on Thursday, where the television host and network owner was honored with the Power Award.



Winfrey revealed that she has been reading the magazine since she was a child and that it was the “first national magazine to launch my face.” She even got a surprise in 1986 when the publication revealed how much money she would make that year.
February 15, 2013 Television

The uber-private Beyoncé is opening up about her personal life -- including how much weight she gained while pregnant with Blue Ivy -- in a revealing new interview on OWN’s “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” The chat about life and love will air on Saturday, February 16th, just before Bey’s HBO documentary, “Life Is But a Dream.”



In new clips from the O and Bey sit down, the “Single Ladies” singer reveals that she didn’t bounce back after Blue Ivy’s birth quite as quickly as she had expected.
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