Oprah Winfrey started doing her talk show when Drew Barrymore was just a preteen, so she knows a thing or two about hosting.
Tomorrow, when Lady O is on The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress wanted to know if it is true that her mentor spent a lot of time with her audience.
And it turns out Oprah did, and she explained how much time she spent with them. “My crew used to be like, ‘Oh my god how much time is she gonna spend talking to that audience? Oprah, please let the audience go.’” Then she added, That’s why this is so hard to do without an audience, and I was complimenting you that you got through it without an audience because you’re not getting their energy. It’s their energy, it’s their feedback, it’s understanding whether what you’re saying is connecting….so to do it without anybody applause to you.”
And that is why Oprah is the most successful talk show host of all time. She gave back to her audience, and they gave back to her. That is how it should be.
I started thinking of all the talk shows I have been to. The only hosts to interact with the audience, that I have seen were Donny Osmond, Regis Philbin, Phil Donahue, Judge Judy, and that is it.
Have you had any of the talk show hosts interact with you when you went to a taping? Tell me in the comments.
Oprah Winfrey was honored at the 2023 Academy Museum Gala yesterday, and she looked beyond fabulous in a skin-tight, color purple Dolce & Gabbana gown. So much so that I can’t believe that she is 69 years old. She looks better and happier now than she has ever looked. Like a fine, she is getting better and better with age.
Before Oprah Winfrey saved All My Children on OWN channel, she made a guest appearance on the Soap Opera. How sweet was the 27-year-old making her network TV debut back in 1981?
Dolly Parton gets prettier and younger-looking with every year that we are blessed to have her on this planet with us. Recently, she shared her secret to Oprah Winfrey on her Apple TV+ show The Oprah Conversation.
Miss Parton says she too busy to get old. Then the 75-year-old legend added, “I’ll bet you I won’t look much different when I am 95…I’ll look as young as my plastic surgeons will allow me.”
Of course, she was joking. She says that her timeless beauty comes from inside of her. It is all about the attitude, and you have to let your true self shine through.
Something she had to do for herself. Can you believe she claims that she is not a natural beauty. In fact, she described herself as a Backwoods Barbie. The Country singer says knew what she wanted to look like as soon as she saw her town’s trollop. She was inspired by her and the Frederick’s of Hollywood magazines. They were what she felt was inside of her, so she made her outside match. Then when she was 40, she started to go under the knife.
Whatever she has done and continues to do works for her. Who is going to say she not gorgeous on the inside and the outside? Even if she wasn’t the beauty we know, we would still love her because she has the biggest personality and an even bigger heart.
If that is what 75 looks like, then I am going to make an appointment with a plastic surgeon so that I can look that good now. I would base my look on my town’s trollop, but I grew up in NYC. Our ladies of the night did not look as classy as the ones in Little Pigeon River in Pittman Center, Tennessee.
There is so much that we have heard about Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, but there is one thing we missed. Did you know there was a connection to The Brady Bunch during it?
The Duke and The Duchess, along with Winfrey, were sitting on chairs that are designed by Christopher Knight, aka Peter Brady. “To our pleasant surprise our wicker and acacia Burchett Outdoor Club Chairs were used for the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle interview with Oprah Winfrey,” he wrote.
They are currently sold out on Amazon, but he hopes to have them available again soon.
I seriously love how random this little tidbit is. Something mundane but interesting that came out of the interview.
