The “Mo’Nique Was Blackballed After Winning an Oscar For Precious” narrative has been an ongoing part of popular culture for just over three years. It began when the actress told The Hollywood Reporter that the film’s director, Lee Daniels, and producers, Tyler Perry and Oprah, were responsible for an industry-wide…
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey on her show Super Soul Conversations that aired Wednesday night, Amy Schumer discussed being sexually assaulted by her boyfriend when she was a teenager. Though Schumer has mentioned the experience in the past—even in her standup—this is the first time she’s done so in detail.
If you thought Oprah Winfrey had already given a definitive response to the question of whether or not she’d run for president in 2020...you’d be right. In early February, Winfrey told 60 Minutes holding the office wasn’t in her “spirit” or her “DNA.”
On Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Oprah Winfrey looked straight into the camera and announced, “I am definitely not running for president.” She was briefly (and jokingly?) booed. So much for our nation’s hopes and dreams.
Thanks to a new profile published this week, W magazine has joined the ever-growing chorus of voices shouting the news that early-2000s icon Lindsay Lohan is back. But, much like her recent mentions in the tabloids and exclusive (if unenlightening) interview with Wendy Williams, the W piece doesn’t do the best job of…
Why won’t Ivanka Trump stop sharing opinions so obviously antithetical to her actual beliefs? I don’t know, but she’s at it again, this time praising Oprah’s show-stopper of a speech delivered at last night’s Golden Globes.
After delivering not only the best speech, but the best overall moment of the Golden Globes as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille award last night, many viewers were convinced Oprah Winfrey was plotting a run for president. Twitter was filled with “she’s running” jokes, and half of all Instagram feeds were blurry…
Oprah Winfrey posted a video message to her authentic Twitter and Instagram on Thursday in which she notified followers that scammers using decoy Oprah Instagram accounts have been soliciting money and personal information from fans.
Two-thirds of the way through the Golden Globe Awards, someone famous presents the Cecil B. DeMille Award to someone arguably more famous, who then gives a big speech that makes people cry or cheer or both. Usually this is a great time to use the restroom, but stick around this year because Oprah Winfrey’s gettin’…
Speaking to reporters at the second series finale party for the wonderful Queen Sugar, Oprah shared one very simple method she uses for insuring that her sets are free of harassment: being picky.
I’m not sure why this happened, while at the same time fully respectful of the power of “Why not?” On today’s episode of Harry, Oprah Winfrey chatted for many segments with host Harry Connick, Jr., about her life, career, and a-ha moments (an a-ha moment, she explained, is a sort of breakthrough of really…
In all her years as the queen of all media, Oprah Winfrey has shared a life’s worth of life lessons, whether whispering or screaming them, and now she is in a Vogue feature story, still forcing us to learn.
And now, an incredible story about Oprah Winfrey’s infinite kindness and how she used it to help Jamie Foxx turn his career around.
Some books are just impossible to adapt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is one of them. Author Rebecca Skloot’s breathtaking saga of a black woman in 1950s Baltimore is a tour de force that details the way Henrietta Lacks’s cells, removed from her without permission while she was treated for cancer, have…
Earlier this month, Oprah Winfrey made a little jokey joke about running for president and now that the idea is out in the universe, there’s a microscopic sliver of a possibility that it could happen. A recent survey suggests she would have a chance of winning.
Attention fans of both science and Oprah Winfrey: the trailer (via Deadline) for HBO’s adaptation of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is here.
On Wednesday, Politico published clips from a 1990 Oprah episode about domestic abuse, featuring the disguised then-wife of labor secretary nominee Andy Puzder. Hours after the tape was released, Puzder withdrew himself from the running, reportedly saying with no apparent irony that he was tired of all the “abuse.”…
Oprah Winfrey is $150 million or so richer (excluding taxes or whatever) after selling an immensely expensive 1912 painting. Good for her.
After a long hiatus from an official news desk, Oprah Winfrey has landed a job as a special contributor for CBS’ 60 Minutes. Nice timing.
Ava DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey and Van Jones talked about the prison system and, tangentially, Donald Trump, in a discussion hosted by Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos at his large home in Los Angeles.
