Ava DuVernay is having a good year. The filmmaker is teaming up with Oprah to create a new series for the Oprah Winfrey Network based off of the novel Queen Sugar. DuVernay will wear multiple hats as the writer, director and executive producer of the series, while Oprah will executive produce and have a recurring role…
Today is Oprah Winfrey's 61st birthday. Happy birthday, Oprah! At this point in her life, Oprah is a living legend. She can pretty much coast until death and her inevitable sainthood from Pope Whoeveritisnext. Even I would be fairly excited to meet Oprah. I bet she smells great, and wears really soft fabrics, and…
Donald Glover might just be my new intellectual crush, guys. And not just because he was a writer on 30 Rock, is a Grammy nominated artist and has a new FX show called Atlanta on the way but rather he's just blowing up the idea of What It Means To Be Black while wearing a second-hand Hawaiian shirt.
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Lot's of people are taking Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as an opportunity to hit the slopes or save 60% off on hotels, airfare and show tickets and go somewhere tropical. But Oprah Winfrey, who starred in and produced the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, Selma will be marching in the Alabama city to commemorate the…
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In today's Tweet Beat, Ben Stiller finally understands one of the cornerstone pieces of information required to exist in today's society, Oprah has a great life and I think we're all on the same page as Billy Eichner.
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In today's Tweet Beat, Oprah's dog receives gift currently has more Christmas presents than I do, John Mayer discusses life goals and Mia Farrow finally takes responsibility.
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Did you lose a couple of followers today on Instagram? If you're Rihanna, you lost 1.2 million on Thursday. Kim Kardashian lost 1.3 million. Even beloved talk show host grand diva Oprah saw her Instagram follower count drop.
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Jimmy Fallon is no stranger to busting out this old "remember when we once did a show together" bit. But trying this with Oprah is some next level shit.
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Fans of Oprah's magazine, O, may be disappointed to learn that this month's cover, in which the celebrated queen of daytime urges her readers to face their fears, is nothing more than a photoshopped lie. Facing her own fears, apparently, is not a part of Oprah living her best life.
I guess you could say they're just lion around. *Paws for applause*
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Thanksgiving in America is, for many celebrities, about a few things, in no particular order: 1. thankfulness; 2. gluttony; 3. family 4. INSTAGRAM. It's the tour kickoff, if you will, for the next full month of holiday excess, and accordingly celebrities were out in social droves on America's favorite photo app,…
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Oprah Winfrey spent the fall criss-crossing America on her "Live the Life You Want Weekend" arena tour. Featured speakers at this orgy of inspiration included big names like Elizabeth Gilbert. And yet, apparently she couldn't scrape together the cash to pay some hoopers asked to perform as peripheral acts.
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Oprah, who future civilizations will look back upon and assume was our queen, has released her annual "Favorite Things" list. Long gone are the days when we witnessed the unveiling of this rich lady fantasy on-air as a lucky studio audience of women had controlled brain aneurisms. Now, we must be content with clicking…
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On Sunday evening, Oprah Winfrey aired one of her shows on OWN, the network otherwise known as I Own This Motherfucking Network, Bitches. This show is called Super Soul Sunday because it airs on Sundays. And this episode starred a very special woman: Madonna Badger.
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Time for the latest dispatch in our ongoing series, "Let's Stop Embarrassing Ourselves With Our Ebola Response, World." It's only human to feel a little alarmed at scale of this terrible epidemic (though you should not panic). But no matter how badly you want to help, maybe don't throw a tone-deaf dance party…
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Whatever intern runs the YouTube account of the OWN network has been hitting out of the park this week, as the channel now features several vintage clips of Oprah interviewing people who claim to have encountered ghosts. All of the clips are their own flavor of spectacular, but this clip from Halloween 1988 with an…
For those of you keeping track at home, Oprah is not giving up on Lindsay Lohan. Yesterday, Oprah went to go watch Lindsay perform in 'Speed the Plow,' and apparently Lupita Nyong'o was there as well. Huh.
During a clip for an upcoming episode of Oprah's 7,000th series about celebrities, Where Are They Now?, the artist formerly known as That's So Raven told Oprah that she stayed out of trouble as a child star because she didn't ask for attention when there was already a spotlight on her. Besides being true, was this…
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In today's Tweet Beat, the former yet forever reigning queen of daytime television and the queen of Thursday nights meet together at Harvard University and rain blessings upon all who shall receive, Madonna and Miley Cyrus grind on each other and Kathie Lee and Hoda gloriously throw tact to the wind.
Hello Friends and welcome back to Selfie Loathing, a roundup of celebrity Instagrams, presented without comment. Let us not tarry.
