On Thursday’s Oprah, former Veronica’s Closet star Kirstie Alley admitted that she’s has gained back the 75 pounds she shed as the official face of the Jenny Craig weight loss empire.

Kirstie told Oprah it was “humiliating” regaining all the weight she worked so hard to lose and feels she let the people down who looked up to her while she was the Jenny’s spokesperson. Read the rest of this entry »

Oprah Winfrey has cancelled Monday’s episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. The Queen of Talk announced on her Web site this morning that she has pulled an episode of her show, titled 10 Years Later: The Truth about Columbine, that was to look back at the shootings that took place at Columbine High School in Colorado ten years ago today.

“I decided to pull the Columbine show today. After reviewing it, I thought it focused too much on the killers,” Oprah wrote. “Today, hold a thought for the Columbine community. This is a hard day for them.”

Today marks the anniversary of the massacre in Littleton, Colorado that killed 12 students and a teacher.

Oprah has officially joined the Twitter craze. On Friday’s live episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, O sent her first tweet while spending an hour profiling the popular social networking site.

“HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY.”

“hi everyone. sadie’s great. gets her rabies vaccine today,” read a later tweet.

The Queen of Talk also tweeted a reply to NBC Late Night host Jimmy Fallon, who had twittered her telling her that he was at a photoshoot at a New York deli.

hi jimmy order a reuben for me,” Oprah wrote.

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Susan Boyle has gone from karaoke to Oprah.

The never-been-kissed singing sensation won hearts –and YouTube infamy– with an enduring performance of “I Dreamed A Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent last Saturday, and now she has been invited to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

“It has been surreal for me,” Susan told The Associated Press from her home in Blackburn, Scotland on Thursday. “I’m going to be on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ CBS and other American networks.”

“I didn’t realize this would be the reaction, I just went on stage and got on with it,” Susan added.

“I did this for my late mother,” Boyle said. “I wanted to show her I could do something with my life.”

Country music superstars Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Sugarland and Darius Rucker will each give a performance on The Oprah Winfrey Show next Tuesday, April 14.

“It’s really strange. I mean, you’re under a microscope, and even if you start — you’re getting to know somebody, you just met them — they have you married off next week, you know what I mean? So it’s a little difficult and it’s a little difficult to know people’s intentions, I think,” Carrie said of dating in the public during her post-performance interview with Oprah.

The ladies of The View sounded off on comments made by their former co-host Star Jones in an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday. The ousted television pundit admitted that she asked her former co-hosts to lie about her then-secret gastric bypass surgery.

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In an interview airing on The Oprah Winfrey Show Wednesday, April 1, television personality Star Jones opens about how her secret gastric-bypass surgery and the wedge it drove between her and the rest ladies of The View.

Star’s interview will air along with testimonials from Valerie Bertinelli and Marie Osmond about their own weight loss.

“I’m so sorry that I placed a burden on my colleagues. I never asked them to lie,” Star tells the Queen of Talk.

Star lost 160 pounds and chose to keep after having the controversial surgery. The former attorney calls her weight loss the “the hardest struggle” of her life, but cautions that she had “no choice” but to have the surgery.

“When you hear people say ‘You took the easy way out,’ I would have longed for an easy way. It was not an easy way…..”

O, no! Oprah Winfrey’s South African boarding school for girls has been rocked by it’s second sex scandal in less than two years.

“It’s like having a 4-year-old climbing on you all the time,” that’s how Michael J. Fox describes his nearly 18 year battle with Parkinson’s Disease, a neurological disorder that affects speech and mobility.

The 47-year-old actor will appear on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show airing Tuesday. The former Family Ties star was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991, and disclosed his condition to the public in 1998. As the symptoms of the disease worsened he semi-retired from acting in 2000.

“And, so whatever you’re trying to do, you’ve got this 4-year-old and you’re… just trying to be patient and focus on what you need to do,” he explains to The Queen of Talk.

Nonetheless, Michael tells Oprah that he refuses to allow his life to be ruled by the disease.

“I’m a dad, I’m a husband, I’m an activist, I’m a writer and I’m just a student of the world,” he says. “This is one fact of my life, but it’s not the totality of my life. It doesn’t define me.”