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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 11:13 AM
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What is Oprah's secret?
Was she adopted?

Was she kidnapped?

Did she rise from the dead?

Is she from Mars?

Does she know how to top the ratings better than anyone else?

For these and other mysteries tune in tomorrow :evilgrin:
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 11:14 AM
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1. that the baby she had as a teen didn't die?
that's about the only thing I can think of, other than one of her parents not being her biological parent.

dg
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RichGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 01:41 PM
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14. That is EXACTLY what I was thinking!!!
Back then, Mississippi, crazy stuff happened.

But, if that's the case, wouldn't she just do a press release? Using it for her show...is so...not right.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 02:53 PM
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20. Probably to take the bite out of whatever tabloid was going to run with it
sure she could have done it with a press release, but who would have believed her? there are still people out there who think she & Gayle are an item, even though she denied it in a Barbara Walters interview.

:shrug:

I can easily see her family telling her the baby died when it was in fact adopted out. Back then, that's what they told girls. Doesn't make it right, but that's what they did.

dg
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Oceansaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 11:18 AM
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2. Gayle King(sp) is her daughter ?....nt
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Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 11:35 AM
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5. Mom gives birth to daughter same year she was born!
It's all over the Enquirer, lol.

I saw Gayle's show the other day and I was noticing how similar her voice is to Oprah's. And some of her mannerisms are too, but it's probably because they spend so much time together.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-11 11:55 AM
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37. That would be the mother of all secrets. LOL.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 11:20 AM
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3. Whatever it is, it will be an anti-climax. Kitty Kelley would've put it in her book otherwise.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 11:31 AM
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4. Oprah must have a hell of a lot of clout. That book sank faster
that the one Kelly wrote about the Bushes. No media interviews. Nothing.

As for the big surprise I'm thinking maybe a sister she never knew she had. I don't think it will be anything earth shattering.
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Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 11:36 AM
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6. I think her biggest surprise...
is that she doesn't have one. :P
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 12:38 PM
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8. it's probably something from Kelly's book- Oprah is pretending like it was never written
Edited on Sun Jan-23-11 12:45 PM by bettyellen
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Raschel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 08:02 PM
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32. I'm going with the sibling too.
:hi:
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-11 11:29 AM
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34. Hey, we're right! Half-sister!! n/t
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 11:38 AM
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7. It was from that book recently - that the guy she thought was her dad, wasn't her real dad
but the author tracked down who her real dad is and told Oprah who is now in contact with him.

She'll bring him out on the show tomorrow and talk about it.
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barbiegeek Donating Member (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 12:46 PM
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9. Didn't she do some DNA ancestry testing?
Maybe she found some 1/2 siblings or is biologically related to someone else famous (deceased or alive) or found her DNA family in Africa.
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 01:34 PM
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13. Dick Cheney is her half brother n/t
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RichGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 01:46 PM
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15. Maybe they were conjoined twins.
When they were separated, she got the pigment and the heart.

Isn't Cheney related to Obama...and both are related to Kevin Bacon. Well, we ALL are related to Kevin Bacon.
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Raschel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 08:05 PM
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33. Wait - she IS related to Elvis. Maybe she's been hiding him?
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barbiegeek Donating Member (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 12:50 PM
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10. It's a Family Reunion Special--so we know for sure it's a relative
i guess a Sibling
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RichGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 01:50 PM
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16. She's never seemed very fond of relatives.
They want money and tell secrets if they don't get it. I would think if she were told she had another relative, that would not necessarity be good news. In the clip they show her crying. Maybe she's thinking...OH NO...another person who going to try to cash in on my success!!!
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Recovered Repug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 12:55 PM
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11. She's Luke Skywalker's real mother. /nt
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Myrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 01:09 PM
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12. ... she's POTUS's long lost other-sister ...
:shrug:
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 01:51 PM
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17. Green is Stedman's favorite color nt
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Duwamish Donating Member (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 01:52 PM
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18. Oprah has all the money.
I heard it on Letterman once. He was being snarky but he raises a good point: money talks.
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WiffenPoof Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 01:53 PM
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19. Well, Here's A Burning Issue...
of our times.

-PLA
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 02:57 PM
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21. Palmolive. She's soaking in it! nt
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Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 02:58 PM
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22. LOL!
I love some of these answers! :)
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 06:18 PM
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24. They're freaking Duzys
:rofl:
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shireen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 06:17 PM
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23. she's going to rip off her mask and reveal her true identity ....
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 06:19 PM
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25. She is Jesus
He is back and in her form.
Look into your heart and you will see this to be true.
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 06:22 PM
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26. She's a fundamentalist Mormon, married to Stedman and Gayle's her sister wife
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 06:25 PM
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27. The real question is: does anyone care?
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 06:50 PM
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28. She is going to give away her fortune to Democratic Underground!
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Taitertots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 07:02 PM
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29. Oprah's secret is that she could only become rich because there is systemic inequality
Oprah's secret is to protect the economic components of our system which advance the concentration of wealth.

Which is why she spends a tiny fraction of her money "helping" people and hoards the rest away. It is why she gives just enough for some people to love her, but never enough for the downtrodden to raise themselves up, and certainly never enough to decrease from her power, influence, or wealth.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 07:03 PM
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30. she's a long-time shill for the ptb?
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TeeYiYi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-11 07:10 PM
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31. That she's a grandma. nt
TYY
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Jeanette in FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-11 11:38 AM
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35. And the answer is......
http://www.indystar.com/article/20110124/NEWS/110124019/1004/SPORTS/Today-s-Talker-Oprah-has-sister-she-didn-t-know-of?odyssey=mod|lateststories

She has a half sister that she never knew about. Her mother had a daughter that she put up for adoption and never told Oprah.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-11 11:55 AM
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36. I guessed that what it was going to be.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-11 12:00 PM
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39. Oprah's Mom sounds like a pip..
:)
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-11 11:59 AM
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38. She has a half sister
Probably lots of people have "unusual" family connections:)

That woman is a lucky woman:)

After all the falderal Oprah will probably shower her with hundred dollar bills:)
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-11 06:35 PM
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40. You're right
OPRAH Winfrey has revealed that she has a half-sister whose existence was kept secret from her for 47 years.

The U.S. talk show host said she was ‘shocked to the core’ last November to learn that her mother Vernita Lee had another daughter, Patricia, who she had given up for adoption shortly after her birth in 1963.

Winfrey, 56, has now met up with her half-sister, whose surname has not been released, and the two have been reunited with their mother for the first time as adults.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1350097/Oprah-Winfrey-reveals-family-secret-I-half-sister.html#ixzz1BzzKrzjk
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