AFTER OPRAH BROKE THE NEWS ON FRIDAY THAT ROSIE’S SHOW WAS GETTING THE AXE, ALL SORTS OF REPORTS SURFACED ABOUT EVERYTHING FROM DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEES – TO A RIFT BETWEEN THE TWO TALK SHOW HOSTS.
WHEN OPRAH CALLED ROSIE TO TELL HER THE BAD NEWS, IT WAS REPORTEDLY “A VERY STRAINED CONVERSATION, WHICH ROSIE ENDED ABRUPTLY.”
SOURCES TELL RADAR ONLINE, ROSIE WAS UNHAPPY WITH THE LANGUAGE OPRAH USED IN HER PRESS RELEASE THAT MADE THE SHOW’S CANCELLATION PUBLIC. SHE FELT IT QUOTE PLACED SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FAILURE OF THE SHOW ON HER.
HOWEVER, ON MONDAY – ROSIE BACKPEDALED
00:59 – Here’s the bottom line, it’s a business right? It didn’t make financial sense to continue the show at the cost because of the amount of viewers. And you know all I want to say is thanks to all the people who watched. Thanks to Oprah, because really it’s not about the things that occur in your life, its about how you react to them. (-) Oprah has treated me with nothing but dignity and respect from day one and I thank her and the staff here that are pretty amazing. (-) so that’s all, it’s not a nightmare it’s a good thing.
BUT APPARENTLY EVERYTHING WASN’T SO ROSIE BEHIND THE SCENES EITHER… STAFFERS TELL THE DAILY BEAST, SHE HUMILIATED THEM IN PUBLIC, THREW TANTRUMS, HAD FITS OF UNCONTROLLABLE YELLING, AND PLENTY OF OTHER RUN-INS ON SET WITH SEVERAL SENIOR STAFFERS. ONE SOURCE GOES AS FAR AS TO SAY, QUOTE,
“IT WAS SUCH A FUCKING HELLHOLE.”
ROSIE TAPES ITS FINAL EPISODE ON MARCH 20, AND IT AIRS ON MARCH 30.
IT WAS ONLY A MONTH AGO WHEN WHITNEY HOUSTON WAS FOUND DEAD IN HER ROOM AT THE BEVERLY HILTON HOTEL…AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MADE HER DEATH SO TRAGIC WAS THAT SHE LEFT HER DAUGHTER- AND HER BEST FRIEND, ALONE… NOW BOBBI KRISTINA BRAVELY OPENS UP…
IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH OPRAH, THE 19-YEAR-OLD IS SPEAKING FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT LOSING HER MOTHER.
“How are you doing? I'm doing as good as I possibly can at this point. I'm just trying to keep going Doing ok; doing as good as possibly can...w/help of the lord, family...and hearing her in my head…”
“Is her music comforting? I can sing her music, but to hear it now, I can't. I can hear her voice telling me, 'Keep moving, baby. I got you.' She's always with me. I can always feel her with me. She used to always say, 'Do you need me?' And I said, 'I always need you.'"
AND SHE STILL FEELS A VERY SPIRITUAL CONNECTION WITH HER MOM….
“I feel her pass through me all the time. I wake up at night. She would say at 5 a.m. the saints start praying. I wake up now and look at the clock and it's 5 o'clock. I start praying.”
NOW SHE SAYS IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON AND CARRY ON HER MOTHER’S LEGACY – SINGING, DANCING AND ACTING. BUT QUITE POSSIBLY UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME… BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN HAS REPORTEDLY MADE A MOVE TO CHANGE HER NAME TO KRISTINA HOUSTON.
IN A YEAR WHEN A GUY NAMED WEINER TWEETED OUT A PICTURE OF EXACTLY THAT, IT WAS PRETTY HARD TO SHOCK US… BUT IT WASN’T IMPOSSIBLE. THESE ARE 2011’S MOST SHOCKING CELEBRITY MOMENTS.
OK FINE, WE KNEW OPRAH WAS ENDING HER 25-YEAR REIGN AS THE QUEEN OF DAYTIME TALK WELL IN ADVANCE, BUT WE WERE STILL IN AWE OF THE HUGE SPECTACLE THAT TOOK OVER A 20,000-SEAAT ARENA IN CHICAGO BACK IN MAY.
THE NUMBER OF A-LISTERS WHO SHOWED UP TO SEND OPRAH OFF WAS MIGHTY IMPRESSIVE – MARIA SHRIVER, KRISTIN CHENOWITH, TYLER PERRY, TOM CRUISE, WILL & JADA AND STEVIE WONDER, JUST TO NAME A FEW!
ALL MY CHILDREN CANCELLED?! WHAT IN THE NAME OF ERICA KANE WERE THEY THINKING!?!
AFTER 42 SEASONS OF DRAMA IN PINE VALLEY, ABC PULLED THE PLUG ON THE LONG-RUNNING SOAP OPERA.
WHEN AMY WINEHOUSE WAS FOUND DEAD IN LONDON BACK IN JULY, IT DIDN’T TOTALLY BLOW OUR MINDS – AFTER ALL, SHE WAS A WELL-KNOWN ABUSER OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL – BUT THE FACT THAT THE 27-YEAR-OLD SOUL DIVA IS NO LONGER WITH US IS STILL SHOCKING.
ANY TIME A BIG STAR ANNOUNCES SHE’S PREGNANT, WE GET EXCITED – BUT WHEN SHE DOES IT BY REVEALING HER BUMP ON A RED CARPET? THAT’S SHOCKING. WE GOTTA GIVE IT UP TO BEYONCE FOR HER BIG VMA BABY BOMBSHELL.
SPEAKING OF MTV’S SIGNATURE AWARDS SHOW – COULD LADY GAGA HAVE SHOCKED US ANY MORE THAN SHE DID AS JO CALDERONE. WE DON’T THINK SO.
PLANNING TO HAVE FRIENDS OVER IN THE NEAR FUTURE? HERE’S SOME ADVICE: DON’T INVITE OPRAH AND NATALIE PORTMAN TO THE SAME PARTY...
THERE MAY BE NO LOVE LOST BETWEEN THE TALK SHOW QUEEN AND THE VERY PREGNANT OSCAR WINNER. ACCORDING TO US WEEKLY, THE BLACK SWAN STAR WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN ON OPRAH’S POST OSCAR SPECIAL, BUT CANCELED JUST 2 HOURS BEFORE, CLAIMING SHE WAS “PREGNANT AND EXHAUSTED.”
BUT ON AN EPISODE OF HER “SEASON 25: BEHIND THE SCENES,” OPRAH SEEMED VERY ZEN ABOUT THE DISS.
BUT NOW, WE’RE NOT SO SURE WE’RE BUYING IT...
A SOURCE TELLS CELEBTV WHEN NATALIE AND JULIA ROBERTS APPEARED ON OPRAH TO PROMOTE THEIR MOVIE, “CLOSER”, NATALIE WAS REPORTEDLY SUCH A NIGHTMARE TO OPRAH’S PRODUCERS AND PUBLICISTS, THAT OPRAH VOWED NEVER TO HAVE HER BACK ON HER SHOW
AFTER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY , YOU BETTER BELIEVE SHE’S HAD MORE THAN A FEW LOOKS--SOME BETTER THAN OTHERS... AS WE SAY SO LONG, OPRAH, WE LOOK BACK AT 25 YEARS OF HER STYLE TRANSFORMATION
GOTTA HAND IT TO HER... NOT SO SURE WE’D LET OUR STYLE FLOPS BE BROADCAST FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE, BUT,THAT’S JUST ONE MORE REASON WHY WE LOVE HER...
WHEN SHE WAS FIRST STARTING OUT, OPRAH EMBRACED THE 80’S WITH A VENGEANCE. HEAVY MAKEUP. BRIGHT COLORS, AND OF COURSE THE LARGER THAN LIFE ‘DO...BUT HER FANS JUST COULDN’T GET ENOUGH
SOON ENOUGH, THE TALK SHOW HOST BECAME A SUPERSTAR AND WHAT OPRAH WAS WEARING REALLY STARTED TO MATTER...
SHE ‘S SUPPORTED US FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND FROM THE INSIDE OUT
BUT IT’S THOSE EVER CHANGING HAIRSTYLES WE ‘LL ALWAYS REMEMBER...SHORT, LONG, CURLY STRAIGHT, BRAIDS AND EVEN THE REAL THING...
AND EVEN WHEN SHE WENT ALL TINA TURNER ON US, OPRAH ALWAYS IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE, SIMPLY THE BEST...
