Cissy Houston Doesn't Like Bobby Brown And Doesn't Like The Thought Of Whitney Lezzing Out With Her Best Friend

On Oprah's Next Chapter last night, the Houston family matriarch pimped out her book on all things Whitney Houston and Oprah asked for her thoughts on a few rumors about her late daughter. Oprah brought up a part in Cissy's book where she talks about Whitney's relationship with best friend Robyn Crawford. Whitney was the Oprah to Robyn's Gayle King and there were rumors that the two bumped 'ginas under the moonlight and were in love for many years. Cissy writes that she knew about the speculation that Whitney and Robyn were gayelle lovers and when The Mighty O asked her if she believed the rumors, she said this:

"I don't really know. I thought, I didn't particularly like her. She just spoke too disrespectful sometimes, like she had something over Nippy. I didn't like that at all. She was alright. She turned out to be alright, I guess. That was her friend."

Cissy told Nippy that she didn't like Robyn and didn't want her hanging around Robyn, but Nippy did anyway. Cissy knew that Nippy's heart wrapped around Robyn's heart, but she didn't know for sure if her mouth ever wrapped around Robyn's love box. Oprah asked Cissy if it would've bothered her if Nippy was a lesbian and she didn't flinch when she said, "Absolutely." Oprah seemed surprised and asked the question again using different words. Cissy once again said that she wouldn't have liked it and wouldn't have condoned it.

Cissy's eyes when she said that! She didn't even flinch. It's like her eyes said "No, I wouldn't have liked it if they were straight dykin" and "Yes, I can smell Gayle's poon on your breath, Oprah, and I don't like that either!" Cissy is super into all things Jesus and is older than Methuselah, so it's not surprising that she wouldn't have embraced Whitney's gayelleness. But then when Oprah asked Cissy if she was happy when Bobby Brown came along, she said, "No." Cissy Houston hates Bobby Brown too.

Then when Oprah brought out a giant cupcake with sprinkles on it and asked Cissy if she liked that, Cissy said, "No." Oprah tried something different and brought out a pink basket full of fluffy kittens wearing tiny hats and asked Cissy if she liked that, Cissy said, "No."

CISSY HOUSTON HATES EVERYTHING!

And during the interview, Whitney's brother Michael confessed that he's the one who introduced her to crack, not Bobby Brown. When Oprah asked Cissy if she likes crack, Cissy said....you know the rest.

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Oprah Loves Foreskin on Her Face

Oprah likes to rub human foreskin all over her face—because it's an ingredient of her favorite anti-aging skin cream SkinMedica, which she calls a "magic fountain of youth and miracle wrinkle solution." Apparently, this is offensive enough to earn the ire of the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project who protested the media mogul's sold-out appearance in Vancouver yesterday.

The group's founder, Glen Callender, claims that Oprah is a hypocrite because she opposes female genital mutilation but then buys and endorses a skin cream—at $165 a jar—that uses the stuff they throw away after male circumcision.

When Callender doesn't acknowledge is that, while male circumcision is definitely an open debate and at the discretion of parents, it doesn't carry the same political implications that FGM does. Female circumcision is performed on older girls as a way to control them in the hopes that it will reduce their libidos and cause them to live in fear of vaginal pain, preventing pre-marital sex or extra-marital affairs. The practice assumes that women cannot be trusted to make their own decisions about their sexuality as adult women because they are naturally wanton whores. It's actually really insensitive for him to even compare the two.

Additionally, human foreskin has a lot of uses, other than being a penis turtleneck. It's an organic resource that can create skin grafts for burn victims or take the place of animals in cosmetic testing. As far as anti-wrinkle creams go, one foreskin can be used for decades to grow fibroblasts that lab techs use to cook up some collagen.

But this guy seems like a joke anyway, giving quotes worthy of an Arrested Development episode:

"We're not an anti-circumcision group," he said. "What we are against is circumcision being forced on people without their consent."

Oprah faces protest for using wrinkle cream made with foreskin [Vancouver 24 Hours]

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Report: Lance Armstrong CONFESSES to Oprah -- YES, I CHEATED

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Lance Armstrong ADMITTED to Oprah Winfrey ... he DID use performance-enhancing drugs during his pro cycling career to win the Tour de France ... this according to the Associated Press.

Lance wrapped up his one-on-one interview with Oprah just a few hours ago ... and according to the report, Lance finally 'fessed up to cheating ... the first time he's ever admitted wrongdoing during his professional career.

Earlier in the day, Lance apologized to the staff at Livestrong, choking up and saying he was sorry for letting down the organization.

The way Lance worded his admission could have serious legal ramifications -- considering he's facing possible criminal prosecution and civil liability for allegedly lying about his PED use in a number of legal proceedings.

Holiday Greetings from Oprah: A Poem

"They're my holiday wishes, and I picture this sight: You and your family on a cold winter night.

Together and safe with love in your home, surrounded by peace, no one is alone.

I wish faith was the rule and kind thoughts were shared. Just imagine this world if everyone cared.

I picture your children, tucked in their beds, with sweet expectations of the new year ahead.

I wish for hope in your heart in whatever you do. That's the holiday dream I'm dreaming for you."

-- Oprah

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Forbes’ Richest People: Oprah Winfrey Makes The Grade; Appears on Cover of Magazine

 

OPRAH Winfrey is one of the richest people in America!

And she’s not afraid to show it.

The media mogul — who’s worth an estimated $2.7 billion — appears on the front cover of the Forbes 400 issue with Warren Buffet and Bill Gates.

Microsoft founder Gates remains at the top of the Richest Americans list with a fortune of $66bn, followed by investor Buffett on $46bn.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison is third and is worth $41 billion, up $8 billion which is the biggest rise this year.

Forbes put it down to getting rid of unprofitable parts of the business, although he did spend $500m buying the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai.

The combined wealth of America’s richest is $1.7 trillion, up from $1.5 trillion in 2011, in due part to the rising stock market, a rebound in real estate values — especially in cities like Los Angeles and New York, and rising values for art works.

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Paris Jackson Sits Down with Oprah for Interview To Air Sunday

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Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, talks about her late father in an interview with Oprah Winfrey airing Sunday.

Paris Jackson, 14, will be featured on "Oprah's Next Chapter," the channel said Tuesday. She and Winfrey discuss how the teenager is faring three years after the 2009 death of her pop star father.

"It never gets easier," Paris says in a promotional spot aired by OWN, which also shows Winfrey asking if Michael Jackson wanted her to have "a quote `normal' life."

Paris and her brothers, Prince and Blanket, were closely sheltered during Jackson's life but have been in the public eye since, appearing onstage at Grammy Awards and on other TV shows.

Oprah Winfrey’s OWN is bleeding money!

 

 

 

Despite the fact that she was once the reigning queen of daytime TV and could make millions of bored housewives read a Jonathan Franzen novel just by glancing in its general direction, Oprah Winfrey‘s network, OWN, has reportedly lost like $330 Million, and honestly, at this point she couldn’t be burning money faster if she bought a Cerberus that ate diamonds and Lamborghinis. Via Huffington Post:

One of those mistakes might be the apparently vast sums of money that OWN has bled through since its inception. Bloomberg Businessweek reported last week that the network may have lost a whopping $330 million since it began in 2008. An analyst told the magazine that it was the most “successful failure in television today.” While Oprah does not have a personal financial stake in the company, it is still undoubtedly a black eye for her.

Mind you, her numbers are slowly picking up thanks to some of her recent exclusive interviews (Bobbi Kristina Brown, Lady Gaga), but at this point, that’s like putting a band-aid on the bleeding stump that was once your arm after its been bitten off by a Cerberus that only eats diamonds and Lamborghinis. On a side note, if anyone has a care guide for Cerberii that only eat diamonds and Lamborghinis, please send it to me before I bleed out.

 

 

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Oprah Vs Rosie Part 2

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Tuesday March 20, 2012

OPRAH Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell are embroiled in a bitter feud!

According to RadarOnline, the pair have fallen out over Oprah’s decision to drop Rosie’s talk show from her OWN network because of poor ratings.

The problems are believed to have started when Oprah first called the comedienne to deliver the news.

“It was a very strained conversation, obviously. Oprah wanted to handle the announcement of the cancellation in a professional and dignified manner. Rosie thanked Oprah for the opportunity and ended the conversation very abruptly,” a source said.

“Rosie didn’t like the initial language of the press release because she felt that it placed sole responsibility of the failure of the show on her. Oprah didn’t need to get Rosie’s input or approval for the press release, but she was trying to be gracious.

“[OWN] got a phone call from Rosie’s camp, explaining what needed to be included into the press release. This is Oprah’s network, and she has the final say. Oprah told her staff to have Rosie call her directly to address her concerns. Rosie never called Oprah. She was having her people do all the dirty work for her.”

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OWNly Oprah knows the future of her Network!

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  Oprah Winfrey, Chairman, CEO, and Chief Creative Officer of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, poses with Rosie O'Donnell at their Television Critics Association presentation on July 29, 2011. (Reuters)

Oprah Winfrey has cut 30 full-time employees from its struggling OWN Network, a move that represents a loss of nearly a fifth of its workforce. After the latest round of cuts, about 90 people remain on the OWN payroll, down from 150 employees at its peak.

“It is difficult to make tough business decisions that affect people’s lives,” Winfrey, OWN’s CEO and chief creative officer said in a written statement Monday. “But the economics of a start-up cable network just don’t work with the cost structure that was in place. As CEO, I have a responsibility to chart the course for long-term success for the network. To wholly achieve that long-term success, this was a necessary next step.”

With ratings continuing to average lower than what Discovery Health – the low-cost network OWN replaced in January 2011–earned, “no one was particularly surprised,” about the layoffs, an OWN insider tells FoxNews.com.

The cuts affected the New York and Los Angeles OWN offices and included top talent at the network. Senior vice president of production, Julie Stern, was one of the major players to get the axe. Michelle Holt, currently the vice president of production, will take over Stern’s responsibilities at OWN.

Discovery Communications, Inc., who has partnered with OWN, will now take a more hands-on approach to running Winfrey’s network.

Neal Kirsch, a veteran Discovery executive and chief financial officer of Discovery’s U.S. networks, will move to OWN in become chief operating officer and CFO. 

OWN will also consolidate operations by having current vice president of business and legal affairs, Tina Perry, partner with Discovery’s Lee Bartlett, who is the network’s executive vice president of global production management, business and legal affairs.

Ian Parmiter, senior vice president of marketing for Discovery ad sales, will now oversee integrated marketing for OWN.

The restructuring represents a shift towards austerity at the network, which insiders tell FoxNews.com has been “burning through money” since its launch in 2011.

The layoffs will save the network approximately $20 million over the next two years, according to the Wall Street Journal. Discovery Communications had invested $312 million in the network as of Dec. 31.

"The cost structure was not sustainable; we had to right-size that," Discovery Senior Executive Vice President David Leavy acknowledged to the LA Times.

Despite the lack of returns, Discovery is steadfastly standing by Winfrey and OWN. 

"We're as committed now as we've ever been and are bullish about the long-term value we are building," Leavy explained.

Monday’s news comes on the heels of the cancellation of Rosie O’Donnell’s underperforming talk show just five months after a much ballyhoo’d launch that included O’Donnell appearing on the October 2010 cover of Winfrey’s “O” magazine in fishnets and gold combat boots.

The “Rosie Show” continually struggled in the ratings, earning an anemic average of 186,000 viewers, and bottoming out with a low of just 60,000 for one episode. 

In a scathing article in the “Daily Beast,” one disgruntled former “Rosie” staffer described conditions on the show as being a “f**king hellhole.”

“Rosie O'Donnell has failed again,” O’Donnell’s arch-nemesis, Donald Trump gloated on Twitter Monday following the news of the “Rosie Show” cancellation. “Her ratings were abysmal ... when will media executives learn that Rosie just hasn't got it.”

But it’s not all bad news at OWN. Ratings have creeped up at the network since Winfrey took over as CEO and chief creative officer of the channel back in July. 

“Oprah’s Next Chapter,” which launched in January, scored its highest ratings ever with 3.5 million viewers tuning in to watch Winfrey’s interview with the late Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown.

“As tough as road as OWN has to meet their goals, I wouldn’t bet against the combination of Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications,” Melissa Grego, executive editor of Broadcasting & Cable, told FoxNews.com last October. “Ultimately what they need to do is find a few hits, and then they’re off to the races.”

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Bobbi Kristina Helps Oprah’s OWN Set Ratings Record

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Oprah Winfrey’s one-on-one interview with Whitney Houston’s only daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was a ratings bonanza for the chat show queen’s struggling cable network.

Winfrey reeled in big ratings Sunday night with her 90-minute interview special, which also featured Houston’s brother and sister-in-law, Gary and Patricia Houston.

The episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter scored the Oprah Winfrey Network’s (OWN) highest ratings ever, with 3.5 million viewers tuning in. The chat unseated OWN’s previous network high of 1.6 million viewers — set by Oprah’s interview with Pastor Joel Osteen, on Jan. 8.

Houston was found dead in her Beverly Hills hotel room on Feb. 11. But Bobbi Kris told Oprah that she can still feel her mother’s spirit.

“I can still sit there and I can still laugh with her, I can still sit there and I can still talk to her. I can hear her voice in spirit talking to me, telling me, ‘Keep moving baby, I’m right here. I got you.’ She’s always with me, I can always feel her, I can always feel her with me.”

Bobbi Kristina also revealed that lights flicker on and off in the Atlanta home where she and Whitney lived before her death.

Do You Want To Live In Oprah Winfrey's Chicago Home?

Oprah Winfrey's Chicago Home is for Rent!

If you've always wanted to live like Oprah -- and you've got an extra $15,000 a month lying around -- you could rent out one of the media queen's Chicago homes!

Oprah purchased the 4,600 square foot pad in 2006 for $5.6 million -- but never moved in. The talk show host reportedly prefers her downtown condo a few blocks away over the new rental.

The massive Windy City rental boasts a 1,241 square foot master suite with his and hers bathrooms, a grand foyer, a library, a wine room and beautiful views of the Chicago Harbor.

Click through the gallery below to see more photos of Oprah's Chicago rental!

Jennifer Hudson angers Oprah

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The needle on my Jennifer Hudson Rage-O-Meter typically rests at a comfortable 50 percent, but every now and then she makes that sucker run into the red (ie: "my very own Louis Vuitton?!?!").

Well, last night the needle bled as Jennifer's February Oprah appearance took center stage on "Season 25: Oprah Behind The Scenes." Quick recap: massive snowstorm was threatening Chicago, so the producers scrambled to get everyone there before the fall. Jennifer shows up Thursday to rehearse for Friday's show and then, unbeknownst to anyone at Harpo, flies to Dallas to attend a party with Jamie Foxx.

Well, that's when Oprah's s*** hit the million dollar fan.

Now, I don't know who Jennifer thinks she is, but if there is anyone you don't double-book, it's freakin Oprah. That's why the rest of the OWN series felt like J. Hud's slambook page as everyone politely talked about what a bitch move it was.

When Jennifer finally (two hours late for a live taping) showed up, I didn't really get the sense she was sorry. Watch!

Thankfully PopWrap's Rage-O-Meter needle returned to its comfortable resting state after watching (six times and counting) J. Hud's appearance on "So You Think You Can Dance UK" where she delivered this her epic, epic, epic performance of "Feeling Good!"

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Why Oprah Can’t Save “All My Children!”

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This just in: O is not Captain Save-a-Soap!

The Queen of Talk, who’ll end her 25 year run as host of The Oprah Winfrey Show next month, has released a video message to fans explaining why her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) won’t be offering a new lease on life to two of ABC’s recently cancelled soap operas. The Alphabet Network sent shockwaves through what’s left of TV’s devoted sudster fans last week when it announced that it was pulling the plug on the ratings-challenged All My Children (AMC) and One Life to Live (OLTL) after more than 40 years on the air. The move was so controversial that the president of housewares giant Hoover has yanked commercials for the company’s famed vacuum cleans from airing on ABC.
“I understand what it feels like to have a show you love off the air, I appreciate that you all think I could save the soaps, but here is the bone marrow truth. The soaps have been an institution in broadcast history and television because they had the support of the audience,” she began.
“Believe me, if there was a dime left to be made from them on broadcast television it would still be happening,” she continued. “I will not be taking on the responsibility of trying to revive an institution that for all intent and all purpose indicates that that time has come for it to be over. So thank you for believing I could save them. But I really can’t.”

One Life to Live premiered on ABC on July 15, 1968. All My Children debuted on the network Jan. 5, 1970. The long-running daytime dramas will come to an end in Sept. 2011 and Jan. 2012 respectively. A food-themed talkshow, The Chew, and a makeover show, The Revolution, will replace the ousted sudster on the network’s daily daytime schedule, the network has announced.