Oprah Winfrey ended this morning’s show by telling her loyal audience in her own words that the wildly successful “Oprah Winfrey Show” will end in 2011. "Twenty five years feels right in my bones and right in my spirit,” she told her audience, at times tearing up during the announcement. “It is the exact right time.”
Why put it off? In less than two years, she will vanish from sight as a five-hours-weekly broadcast TV fixture. How could we not feel early pangs of withdrawal? Let’s go ahead and start our seven stages of grief.
Oprah tearfully announced the end of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" today, saying, "Over the next couple of days you may hear a lot of speculation in the press about why I am making this decision now and that will mostly be conjecture. So I wanted you to hear this directly from me. ... Here is the real reason. I love this show. This show has been my life. And I love it enough to know when it is time to say goodbye."
Oprah Winfrey's interview with former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin scored the highest rating for the talk show in two years.
Oprah Winfrey has said one of her favorite books growing up was “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” by Betty Smith, a novel about a smart girl with a big heart who blossoms beautifully in a world of poverty, violence and family disintegration.
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