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The Hollywood Reporter notes that Rosie O’Donnell has signed a deal for a daytime television show that launches upon Oprah Winfrey’s retirement in 2011. O’Donnell, who hosted the syndicated “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” and did a stint on ABC’s “The View,” has teamed with syndication veterans Dick Robertson and Scott Carlin for another syndicated talk show. The show, hosted by …

Ted Haggard and his wife appeared on Oprah’s tribute show to cheated upon wives yesterday. According to Ted, he now lets his wife check in on his whereabouts via Facebook and Twitter so that she always knows he doesn’t have a cock in his mouth. Because you can only use the internet in the presence of heterosexuals. Former New Life …

Towleroad tips us to this clip of Adam Lambert’s performance on Oprah today. After all that AMA nonsense, Lambert has been rather ubiquitous on daytime television for the last couple of weeks.

Last night President Obama told Oprah Winfrey that he gives himself a “solid B+” for his first year in office. On Sunday night, Oprah’s Christmas at the White House special aired; during her one-on-one conversation with the president, Oprah asked Obama what grade he would give himself for his first year in office. “A good solid B-plus,” Obama answered, and …

Academy Award officials have ruled that Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, who signed on as executive producers of Precious after the movie was completed, are not eligible to receive Oscars should the picture win. The pair’s involvement has annoyed some movie industry insiders and well as some critics Huge controversy surrounds the involvement of Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry in …

Today Oprah Winfrey will tell her audience that she’s calling it quits. Sounds like major news, but in fact her contract with ABC runs for two more years and after that she will launch the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in a deal with the Discovery Channel. The last episode of Oprah is scheduled for September 9th, 2011. ZOMG! Only 500 …

I think I’m starting to have a Mary Hart reaction just from the sound of her voice.

Keith Olbermann calls Sarah Palin’s book tour just a smokescreen for the “first leg of her 2012 election campaign.”

After debuting on Oprah’s show on Tuesday, KFC’s free grilled chicken promotion caused their corporate site to crash and spawned near riots at Manhattan outlets. Today the company suspended the promotion because the chain was going to run out of chicken by Mother’s Day, which curiously is their busiest day of the year. Below KFC’s CEO apologizes and offer rain …

Oprah, Gayle, Jenny McCarthy, Nate Berkus and Hugh Jackman discussed gay marriage on Friday’s episode. (Although I think this was taped at least two weeks ago.) (Via – Good As You)

Tabloids are lighting up about the latest “scandal” at Oprah Winfrey’s all-girl boarding school in Africa. Oprah Winfrey’s elite boarding school for girls in South Africa has been rocked by its second sex scandal in fewer than two years. Seven students were suspended last week for sexually harassing their schoolmates, the “Afrikaans on Sunday” newspaper reported. One 15-year-old was accused …

You know, I really like Oprah – but enough already with the “shocking!” music and crime scene-ish flash cuts. Honey, it’s just lesbians, not serial killers.

Seriously. How surreal is it for the world’s richest woman to lecture her audience about cutting costs in a bad economy by recycling clothes and buying cheaper cuts of meat? It’s not bad advice, of course, but when was the last time this billionaire was actually in a grocery store?

Ted Haggard and his wife Gayle appeared on Oprah yesterday and what a festival of nonsense and doubletalk it was. Haggard isn’t straight, he isn’t gay, he isn’t bi, he’s just “got issues”. God made him this way, but God wants him to resist. Oh, and a monogamous heterosexual relationship is still the only way to go. For her part, …

Here’s a bit of Thomas Beatie’s interview with Oprah, including the ultrasound test. UPDATE: Oprah message board lights up with hate.

In a collaboration with People Magazine, today Oprah Winfrey hosted Thomas Beatie, the world-famous “pregnant man”, showing her audience ultrasound video of the fetus growing inside him. “It’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human desire,” a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said. “I have a very stable male identity,” he added, saying that pregnancy …

Thomas Beatie will appear on the Oprah Winfrey show this Thursday. The Oregon transman made headlines around the world last week when he announced his pregnancy. Here’s a teaser from the Oprah website: A happily married couple, living in a normal neighborhood in America, is expecting their first child. But there’s a big twist … the husband is the one …

Rosanne Barr’s blog is mysteriously “suspended” after the following quote appeared yesterday. barak obama is an empty suit selling “hope” in lieu of Truth. Oprah Winfrey helped to elect Arnold Swartzenegger. I have no doubt that she voted her purse by doing this, as she is a large land owner in California, and that ilk fears Dems because they do …

Oprah Winfrey will go on a three-state bus tour with Barack Obama next month, starting with key early primary state Iowa, then moving on to South Carolina and New Hampshire. To my mind, there is no other celebrity in the country whose endorsement could sway more voters than Oprah, particularly with women, who might otherwise be Clinton supporters. Who could …