27 causes 175 articles 3 videos When it comes to being benevolent and giving to charity, one person comes to mind: Oprah Winfrey. [53], Working in local media, Winfrey was both the youngest news anchor and the first black female news anchor at Nashville's WLAC-TV (now WTVF-TV), where she often covered the same stories as John Tesh, who worked at a competing Nashville station. In 1984, Winfrey relocated to Chicago to host WLS-TV's low-rated half-hour morning talk show, AM Chicago, after being hired by that station's general manager, Dennis Swanson. [267] Winfrey rejected the claims, saying: "If you are surrounded by beautiful things and wonderful teachers who inspire you, that beauty brings out the beauty in you. [71] Winfrey left 60 Minutes by the end of 2018. Oprah voiced Gussie the goose in Charlotte's Web (2006) and voiced Judge Bumbleton in Bee Movie (2007), co-starring the voices of Jerry Seinfeld and Rene Zellweger. [2][24] She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to an unmarried teenage mother. [250], In 2008, Winfrey's show was airing in 140 countries internationally and seen by an estimated 46million people in the US weekly. That is Winfrey's genius, and will be her legacy, as the changes she has wrought in the talk show continue to permeate our culture and shape our lives. In her early life, she would speak at local, mostly African American congregations of the Southern Baptist Convention that were often deeply religious and familiar with such themes as evangelical Protestantism, the Black church, and being born-again. Her touchy-feely style sucks in audiences at the rate of 14 million viewers per day. Over the years, Ms. Winfrey has donated millions of dollars of her own money to fund various interests and charities. [259], In 2013, Winfrey donated $12 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. [134][135] Winfrey considered Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her mentor and close friend; she called Angelou her "mother-sister-friend". Audio file, video and biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oprah_Winfrey&oldid=1163703468, The One Who Creates Everything by Thinking, This page was last edited on 6 July 2023, at 05:06. That year, she also listed Gayle King's estate and purchased her (through her second LLC Sophie's Penthouse) a penthouse apartment in midtown Manhattan, New York City which would later be sold in 2012. Winfrey participated in the event even after reports had revealed that Chatman had been found liable in 2001 for her role in a scheme to defraud hundreds of District of Columbia nursing-home employees of at least $1.4 million in owed wages. She is also the president of Harpo Productions (Oprah spelled backwards), a film and TV production company behind The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray, The Dr. Oz Show and many others. Jobs; Career; Companies; Post Job; Sign In. In December 2007, Winfrey joined Obama for a series of rallies in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. [37] By the time Winfrey moved back with her mother, Lee had also given birth to Winfrey's half-brother Jeffrey, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1989. Her grandmother was so poor that Winfrey often wore dresses made of potato sacks, for which other children made fun of her. Expanding her media empire, Winfrey launched "O, The Oprah Magazine," and the Oxygen Network in 2000. A complete timeline of Oprah Winfrey Network's History from founding to present including key milestones and major events. It is your instinct trying to tell you something is off. At the end, I was down on the floor on my knees groveling and pleading with him". A December 2007 Fox News poll put the figure at 55%. 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"[124], According to Mair, when Kramer moved to NBC in New York, Winfrey had a love affair with a married man who had no intention of leaving his wife. Because I had no sense that I deserved anything else. [52], Winfrey's career in media would not have surprised her grandmother, who once said that ever since Winfrey could talk, she was on stage. [212][213] Winfrey later attended and spoke at Moore's gubernatorial inauguration on January 18, 2023. While promoting the movie, co-star Thandie Newton described Winfrey as "a very strong technical actress and it's because she's so smart. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Within months after Winfrey took over, the show went from last place in the ratings to overtaking Donahue as the highest-rated talk show in Chicago. The second show under the deal, Oprah Talks COVID-19, debuted on March 21, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Winfrey was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. "[207] Winfrey suggested that she would publicly endorse a candidate in the 2020 Democratic primaries, however she ultimately did not do so. Ben Shapiro of Townhall.com wrote: "Oprah Winfrey is the most powerful woman in America. It's not a clean business. 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On September 10, 2007, Letterman made his first appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, as its season premiere was filmed in New York City. Winfrey's contract requires her to be on the air 30 minutes a week, 39 weeks a year.[104]. He stuck with me through the whole demoralizing experience. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of ample bulk. Her genetic makeup was determined to be 89% Sub-Saharan African, 8% Native American, and 3% East Asian. A little over two years ago, Winfrey bought 10% of the struggling company for $43 million. From that show alone, viewers around the world donated over $7 million. That man was the most fun romance I ever had. [68], The series finale of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired on May 25, 2011. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from . In 2006, Oprah purchased a co-op apartment along Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago, reportedly with plans to permanently move there from her prior adjoined-condo unit in Water Tower Place for the duration of her show but for reasons unknown, the property sat entirely unused until she sold it in 2012. Between 1996 and 2000 she purchased a total of five condos in different development areas of Fisher Island, Florida. She also moderated three ABC Afterschool Specials from 1992 to 1994. 1. The company's origins can trace back to 1985 when Oprah appeared in The Color Purple.Winfrey founded her own company in 1986. It also includes HARPO Films and HARPO Radio, Inc. [231] Twelve days after the September 11 attacks, New York mayor Rudy Giuliani asked Winfrey to serve as host of a Prayer for America service at New York City's Yankee Stadium, which was attended by former president Bill Clinton and New York senator Hillary Clinton. When you don't know what to do, do nothing until you do know what to do. [98] The audience for her magazine is considerably more upscale than for her TV show; the average reader earns well above the median for U.S. During a Webinar class, in which she promoted the book, Winfrey stated "God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. "I couldn't kill myself. Oprah Winfrey is a global media leader, philanthropist, producer and actress. [129][130], In the mid-1980s, Winfrey briefly dated movie critic Roger Ebert, whom she credits with advising her to take her show into syndication. [142] Winfrey was the recipient of the first Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 2002 Emmy Awards for services to television and film. [160], As chairman of Harpo Inc., she was named the most powerful woman in entertainment by The Hollywood Reporter in 2008. Their much-publicized contest was the subject of enormous scrutiny. It was scheduled to launch in 2009 but was delayed, and actually launched on January 1, 2011. [81], In 2009, Winfrey was criticized for allowing actress Suzanne Somers to appear on her show to discuss hormone treatments that are not accepted by mainstream medicine. an author who's embarrassed her by fabricating portions of a supposed memoir she's plugged for her book club. [79] Winfrey responded by saying that she is opposed to rap lyrics that "marginalize women," but enjoys some artists, including Kanye West, who appeared on her show. To celebrate two decades on national TV, and to thank her employees for their hard work, Winfrey took her staff and their families (1,065 people in total) on vacation to Hawaii in the summer of 2006. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls - South Africa (OWLAG) is a boarding school for girls, grades 8-12, in Henley on Klip, Gauteng Province, South Africa The school is a project begun by the American entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey in 2002, born out of a discussion she had with South African president Nelson Mandela in OWLAG opened in 2007 and its inaugural class . In 2003, she was the first African American woman on Forbes' list of the World's Richest People. Winfrey provides leadership in. This company was founded in 1986. All my stuff is out there. [105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116][117], Winfrey's high school sweetheart Anthony Otey recalled an innocent courtship that began in Winfrey's senior year of high school, from which he saved hundreds of love notes; Winfrey conducted herself with dignity and was a model student. [206] Winfrey ultimately denied any plans to run for president, saying in 2018 that while it was "a humbling thing to have people think you can run the country", she "would not be able to do it. Winfrey negotiated ownership rights to the television program and started her own production company. [201], Winfrey endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and referred to Republican candidate Donald Trump as a "demagogue". Oprah.com averages more than 70 million page views and more than six million users per month, and receives approximately 20,000 e-mails each week. Because the doubt is your inner voice or the voice of God or whatever you choose to call it. [153] In 2007, USA Today ranked Winfrey as the most influential woman and most influential black person of the previous quarter-century. 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Her stake in the company was worth more . [257] By 2012, she had given away about $400 million to educational causes. [189] She endorsed presidential candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. As her talk-show was beginning, Oprah first purchased a condominium in Chicago's Water Tower Place in 1985, before purchasing the condos adjoining and directly below it in 1992, 1993, and 1994, respectively. "[164] Vanity Fair wrote: "Oprah Winfrey arguably has more influence on the culture than any university president, politician, or religious leader, except perhaps the Pope. [136] Winfrey hosted a week-long Caribbean cruise for Angelou and 150 guests for Angelou's 70th birthday in 1998, and in 2008, threw her "an extravagant 80th birthday celebration" at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. [155] In 1998, Winfrey became the first woman and first African American to top Entertainment Weekly's list of the 101 most powerful people in the entertainment industry. The Angel Network distributed its final grants, six $1 million donations to U.S. charter schools, in September 2010. [208] She later campaigned for Joe Biden during the general election. [260] President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom later that same year. [49][50] At the age of 17, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. [18][19] In 2008, she formed her own network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Since then, enrollment has boomed by nearly 1 million members. Her highest rating came in 2007[168] when she was statistically tied with Hillary Clinton for first place. [119][120], In 1971, several months after breaking up with Otey, Winfrey met William "Bubba" Taylor at Tennessee State University. Examples include a Time magazine article[pageneeded] on early 21st-century gays coming out of the closet at an increasingly younger age and on plummeting gay suicide rates. Interviewed by The Guardian in 2006, Dowd said: "She is the top alpha female in this country. Additionally that year, she also purchased homes in both Elmwood Park, Illinois and Merrillville, Indiana for other family members and friends. The Ultimate Guide to Getting Booked on Oprah", "Obama supporter Oprah takes a big dive Costas Panagopoulos", "Obama, Hillary Clinton Share "Most Admired" Billing", "Clinton Closes Gap with Bush As Nation's 'Most Admired Man', "38.
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