It's a girl! Seal and Heidi Klum confirmed during Friday's segment of "The Oprah Winfrey" show that they are expecting a baby girl -- which will be Klum's fourth child.
Klum, 35, and Seal, 46, have two sons together -- Henry Gunther, 3, and Johan Riley, 2. They're also parents to to 4-year-old Leni, whose father is Italian businessman Flavio Briatore but who was later adopted by Seal.
Several weeks ago, Seal announced his wife's pregnancy to the audience at his New York City concert.
Klum will finally be back hosting "Project Runway" in August.
Elizabeth Edwards tells talk show host Oprah Winfrey that it's a "complicated question" if she still is in love with her husband, former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen John Edwards, after his admitted affair.
In an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to air Thursday, Winfrey asks Edwards, "Are you still in love with him?"
Edwards responds, "You know, that's a complicated question," in an excerpt provided in advance by Harpo Productions.
A sit-down interview with the grandparents of murdered two-year-old Caylee Anthony and Oprah Winfrey isn't going to happen as planned.
George and Cindy Anthony were slated to head to Chicago to talk with Winfrey in what was being plugged as one of three exclusive TV interviews Winfrey scored for the month of May.
However, after the Anthonys agreed to do a sit down with "The Early Show" on CBS, Winfrey's reps pulled the interview.
"Based on the Anthonys' decision to appear on other programs, we have decided not to move forward with their interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show at this time," a statement from Winfrey's show said.
The interview on Winfrey's show would have been the first time the Anthony's had been interviewed since their granddaughter's remains were found.
Star Jones appears on Wednesday's airing of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (George Burns/Harpo photo)
Star Jones -- whose rapid weight loss played into her rocky exit from "The View" in 2006 -- denies she took an easy way out having gastric bypass surgery and without the changes, Jones was told she would have died.
"I'm still 300 pounds in my head some days," Jones told Oprah Winfrey in a taped episode airing Wednesday.
Jones admitted she was scared to disappoint people and ashamed that she wasn't able to control her weight.
"... I was an addict for all practical purposes, that I had never stuck to a real diet, that I'd never stuck to a real exercise program, and that when confronted by my doctor and the doctor said if you don't make changes, you will die. I had no choice." Jones said. "When you hear people say, oh, you took the easy way out, I would have longed for an easy way. It was not an easy way. It was this -- the hardest struggle of my whole entire life and I still struggle."
Jones responded to remarks by former co-host Barbara Walters that after the surgery, the show's audience couldn't relate to Jones anymore.
"I was hurt and upset initially," Jones said. "I'm so sorry that I placed a burden on my colleagues. I never asked them to lie."
Jones' appearance is part of a show on losing weight in the public eye. Valerie Bertinelli and Marie Osmond will also appear on Wednesday's show.
Chicago native Jennifer Hudson performing Feb. 8 at the Grammys.(AP file)
Jennifer Hudson's big month comes to a close later this week with a performance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
On Friday, Hudson will be with O to perform her latest single, "If This Isn't Love."
Hudson began February with an acclaimed performance of the national anthem at the Super Bowl, followed by another heralded performance at the Grammys -- where she also took the trophy for best R&B album for her self-titled debut.
No word on whether she'll actually be sitting down to chat with Oprah, but we wouldn't bet against it.
Oprah Winfrey's taking her show on the road next week for Barack Obama's inauguration - and she's bringing an all-star cast of stars with her.
Fans on Monday will see an exclusive, one-time-only, music performance by Bono, Will.i.am, Faith Hill, Seal, David Foster and Mary J. Blige of a brand-new song celebrating Obama's inauguration and her show's trip to D.C.
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher will also appear on Monday's show - and other stars, including Scarlett Johansson, will share special messages about the event.
Actor Forest Whitaker and musician Jon Bon Jovi will join Winfrey on Wednesday as she broadcasts her show live from chef Art Smith's "Art and Soul" restaurant.
Saying it was the most controversial moment of her "Best Life" Week series, Oprah Winfrey said Monday her show's message boards were flooded with responses to statements made by a religious leader that being gay was OK in God's eyes.
Responding to a viewer who Skyped into the show, The Rev. Ed Bacon, declared being gay is a "gift from God."
Bacon appeared live via satellite during today's show and didn't back down from statements made last week.
"I meant exactly what I said," Bacon said.
It is so important for every human being to understand he or she is a gift from God. ... and it's important to remember that God made them, he said.
Bacon said he's received a lot of response from his appearance last week, most of it being positive.
"It simply unleashed a flood of healing," Bacon said.
Bacon will appear live for a 90-minute webcast Wednesday night at 8 p.m. on Oprah.com.
Day three of Oprah Winfrey's "Best Life" series took on a revelation even Oprah Winfrey says she's never heard.
Responding to a viewer who Skyped into the show to talk about being gay, one of Winfrey's panelists, The Rev. Ed Bacon, declared being gay is a "gift from God."
Bacon is the rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., a well-known liberal and progressive church.
"Well you are the first minister I've ever heard say being gay is a gift from God, I can tell you that," Winfrey said.
"We're not talking religion, we're talking spirituality," said Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder and spiritual director of Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles. . "People don't just happen to be gay. When people are born, they have that type of orientation, so he is gay by diving right."
In a much-anticipated return from winter hiatus, Oprah Winfrey tackled head on one of the biggest issues that's plagued her public life: weight.
Winfrey debuted her new "Best Life" week series today with an admission that last year she'd just about "given up" on herself and that her life had been out of balance.
While Winfrey herself didn't say she was suffering mild depression, adviser and fitness expert Bob Greene suggested she was.
"I looked in her eyes, and she wasn't there. She was very vacant and distracted. It was alarming to me," Greene recalled while walking with Winfrey one day last year at her California estate. "I think I felt she was losing her zest for life, and that was one of the saddest moments."
With a crazed schedule that balanced her talk show and several other arms of her empire, Winfrey began suffering sleep issues and heart palpitations over a year ago. Four doctors and several prescriptions later, the sleep Winfrey craved didn't come. But, the added pounds did.
"None of the doctors recognized it was a thyroid problem, but our viewers did," Winfrey said. "The moment I heard I had a thyroid problem, I thought I don't even know how to fight this."
"It's not about using food or abusing food. It's about balance. When I ask myself what I am hungry for, I am hungry for balance."
Winfrey admitted during the show and in this month's edition of "O" magazine that her entire body hadn't been featured on the cover last year because she was embarassed by her weight.
"This past year has been really difficult, because I didn't feel like a cover girl. I'd rather not be seen," Winfrey said. " All this year I've been hiding my body because I didn't want you to see it. Here I am one of the most visible people in the world, trying to hide my body."
Winfrey might have been down, but definitely not out. She pledged 2009 would be about having more joy and balance in her life.
"When you love yourself enough, you take care of yourself. You have to make yourself a priority."
Winfrey's "Best Life" week continues all this week, with expert advice from Bob Greene, Dr. Oz, Elizabeth Lesser, Suze Orman and Sun-Times columnist Dr. Laura Berman. Visit Oprah.com/bestlife for more and for info on live webcasts Winfrey will host next week at Oprah.com
Note: Special thanks to online entertainment editor Thomas Conner for keeping readers up to date on Oprah news while I was away for a two-week vacation!
Oprah Winfrey isn't going anywhere just yet -- and might stick around daytime TV even after her contract is up in 2011.
Winfrey told Extra last night at a fundraiser for Essence Magazine's Susan Taylor that she'll definitely be fulfilling her contract, and hinted at the prospect of a new one.
"I'm a girl that keeps her word. I have a contract till 2011, so right now that's what I have until someone writes me another one....I'm going to fulfill my contractual obligations and fulfill them happily."
Rumors speculated last month whether Winfrey might be leaving daytime TV after Discovery CEO David Zaslav -- who is helping launch the "Oprah Winfrey Network" -- made remarks that Winfrey might bring her show to the new cable channel in the future.
"The expectation is that after [2011], her show will go off of ABC in syndication and she will come to OWN."
A Harpo spokeswoman at the time made clear that no decision about the show has been made at the time.
"While David Zaslav's comments are true that Oprah's current contract to produce 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' will expire in 2011, she has not made a final decision as to whether she will continue her show in syndication beyond that," said Lisa Halliday.
On the heels of a new Vogue article where Jennifer Aniston says "what Angelina [Jolie] did was very uncool", the actress sat down with Oprah Winfrey emphasizing there's no hard feelings between her and ex-Brad Pitt.
"He [the Vogue journalist] asked me a question and I, basically, just answered it as honestly as I could," Aniston said in a taped interview Thursday. "I don't go there. It's a 100 years old."
Aniston was appreciative to have such a fan following interested in her life and said she's been "unbelievably lucky with love."
Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker wrote today in his column that Pitt complained to Aniston about publicly reopening old wounds from breakup and romance with Jolie.
"[Brad has] done some amazing things in the last couple years," Aniston said.
The former Friends actress also denied rumors that she's pregnant.
Months after Oprah Winfrey took heat for not bowing to pressure to have then Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin on her show, an invitation has been extended.
A show spokeswoman confirmed Friday that Palin has been invited to appear on the show now that the election is over.
Conservative groups and bloggers took issue with Winfrey after a series of articles -- first appearing on the Drudge Report -- chastised her and called her "bias" for not inviting Palin on her show.
"I declared back in May I was not going to use my show as a platform," Winfrey said.
I spoke out as a private citizen for the candidate of my choice, she added, echoing comments she said in a statement at the time.
The man known around the world as Oprah Winfrey's human hankie during the election night rally for Barack Obama got five more minutes of fame Friday, appearing at a live taping of her show in Chicago.
Winfrey gave thanks to Sam Perry, who up until yesterday was known only as the mystery man Winfrey leaned on, crying, during the victory bash in Grant Park.
Today, Winfrey and Perry shared a brief hug as she apologized for not asking his name during the rally.
"What a night to share. This is the jacket, and you'll see there's no mascara [on it]." Perry said. "My cell phone right from the very beginning was vibrating from calls. People were staked out at my house yesterday as well."
A former reporter with Reuters and UPI, Perry is a Harvard graduate with a passion for hockey, photography and soccer. He is also fluent in Swedish and has studied Russian and Latin.
"I get home [Tuesday] and there are all these e-mails saying to me saying, 'Who's the guy whose shoulder you were leaning on?' " Winfrey said. "We were packed so closely you couldn't move. If I had had my hands down, I would have been in this guy's butt."
Winfrey said she saw the picture of the two in the newspaper the next day, but at the time hadn't even see his face.
"If I had to identify him in a lineup I couldn't," Winfrey said. "At first I did say to him if I could lean into his shoulder."
Winfrey went on TV on Wednesday thanking Perry, who she dubbed "Mr. Man" for giving her a shoulder to cry on. That sent the media into a frenzied search -- with CNN, the Associated Press and the Chicago Sun-Times looking to find the mystery man's identity.
Suntimes.com broke the news Thursday that Perry, a consultant living in northern California, was the guy grooving to Stevie Wonder with the TV superstar before Winfrey broke down in tears on his shoulder.
A panel of co-hosts on today's show poked fun at the moment, saying Winfrey wasn't just leaning on Perry but was draped all over him.
"Can you image this guy? He's watching Obama and all of a sudden he turns around and it's Oprah," joked actor Mark Consuelos.
Appearing via satellite on today's "The Oprah Winfrey" show, comedian actress Tina Fey said she's "packing up her wig" and retiring her portrayal of Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
"I'm going to retire. ... I am really happy I did it," Fey said. "It was this wonderful chance to go home again and be with my friends at 'Saturday Night Live.'"
Fey, who crossed paths with Palin when she appeared on the show last month, said Palin was a good sport about the impersonation.
Fey appeared today on Winfrey's show -- the same day the talk show host will make her debut on the popular NBC hit "30 Rock," which stars Fey.
"I was in Denver -- I had just attended the big speech Barack Obama gave -- and the next day was when Sen. John McCain announced Sarah Palin," Winfrey recalled, and then said, "Oh my god, she's Tina Fey!"
Mum before the election on her TV show about who she was backing for president, Oprah Winfrey was "unleashed" Wednesday after Barack Obama's monumental win as the first black American president.
"Today the election is over and I'm unleashed!" Winfrey rejoiced on her post-election show.
Sun-Times columnist Dr. Laura Berman talks sex with Oprah Winfrey during Monday's show when she stops by to chat about her new book.
"Real Sex for Real Women: A Complete Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Sexual Wellbeing," is Berman's fourth book on finding sex and intimacy at any age.
Berman is a leading expert on sex, from making time to have it to communication differences, sexual dysfunction and self esteem.
Former Olympic champion Marion Jones leaves Jan. 11 after being sentenced in White Plains, N.Y.(AP file)
Oprah's spotlighting another Olympic athlete this week -- but this one's not such a happy tale.
On Wednesday, track star Marion Jones will appear on the program -- giving her first interview since her release from federal prison after completing most of her six-month sentence for lying about steroid use.
Oprah Winfrey spoke briefly during a live broadcast of her talk show Friday about her decision not to interview Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin while the election was going on.
It's the first time Winfrey has acknowledged the manufactured controversy on her show.
"I declared back in May I was not going to use my show as a platform," Winfrey said.
I spoke out as a private citizen for the candidate of my choice, she added, echoing comments she said in a statement weeks back.
Winfrey said it was suggested Michelle Obama -- wife of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama -- appear on her show following Michelle's speech at the Democratic National Convention. However, Winfrey said no for the same reason she was not using the show as a platform for any of the candidates.
Winfrey has openly supported and campaigned for Barack Obama, but has never made that support known during episodes of her show.
More on the controversy here and why it's a non-issue.
Mark Bieganski is an online content guru for theChicago Sun-Times and RogerEbert.com. He follows the Oprah phenom like it's a religion. He's been to the show three times as an audience member (he'll make the show as a guest someday) and has had the Oprah show on season pass ever since getting a Tivo two years ago.
Day three of Oprah Winfrey's "Best Life" series took on a revelation even Oprah Winfrey says she's never heard.
