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Winfrey will answer fan questions

(NEWSER) - Ever wanted to ask Oprah Winfrey a question? Now's your chance. The talk show queen will appear in a video interview on Facebook Live on Thursday from 4:30pm to 5:30pm EDT, Mashable reports. Fans can submit questions to the event wall (judging from what's currently there—sample: "Could you please thank Barbra Streisand for my husband and I?"—competition is low). When the time comes, you can watch the webcast here . More»

Whitney Houston's sister-in-law also talks to Oprah Winfrey

(NEWSER) - The night before Whitney Houston died, Bobbi Kristina Brown asked her mother to stay with her. "I slept in her arms all day, all night long," Brown told Oprah Winfrey last night. In her first interview since Houston's death, Brown called her mother "my everything," the AP reports. "She's always with me," Brown added. "Her spirit is strong, it's a strong spirit. I feel her pass through me all the time." More»

Tweet got talk show queen in trouble with Nielsen

(NEWSER) - We all know the Oprah Winfrey Network is struggling with ratings —but apparently the situation is so bad that Winfrey herself felt the need to tweet a request for viewers on Sunday night, as the Grammys were airing. "Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Nielsen box," she tweeted just before Oprah's Next Chapter aired. An uproar quickly ensued, with some slamming Oprah for "begging for viewers," Fox News reports. More»

1.1M tune in, but Winfrey will likely need to boost that audience

(NEWSER) - Oprah's new talk show debuted Sunday night, and just 1.1 million people watched. That may sound like a lot at first—and, in fact, it is the second largest audience for any show on the struggling Oprah Winfrey Network—but not when you consider Winfrey averaged 6.5 million viewers in the last season of her old daytime show, Piers Morgan premiered in Larry King's old slot to an audience of 2.1 million, and the History Channel's Pawn Stars averaged more than 5 million viewers last month. More»

Winfrey unveils list in magazine

(NEWSER) - Fear not, Oprah fans and shopaholics alike: Despite the fact that her show is no longer on the air, the talk show queen is still revealing her current list of “favorite things.” People has highlights from the list, unveiled in December’s O, the Oprah Magazine:

• Jay-Z’s champagne: $300
• Marigot Collection pajamas and cashmere robe: $234 and $412, respectively
• Scented candles: $45