Oprah May Save the Biggest Star in the World for Her Final Guest

By Rob Shuter Posted May 4th 2011 09:15AM

It's one of the best kept secrets in all of entertainment: who will be Oprah Winfrey's final guest, ever? With only 20 days left until the the May 25 finale, friends of the talk queen hint that the leading candidate at the moment is the biggest star in the world ... Oprah herself!

"How can one celebrity possibly sum up 25 years of such a groundbreaking show?" an insider asks. "Who could possibility come on the show and represent everything Oprah has done" from celebrity interviews, to human-interest stories to politics to women's issues to breaking news.

She's done it all, my source says, and "only one person could do that and that is Oprah herself."

Oprah has spoken before of her love of the final episode of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show,' where Mary turned out the lights and left. Is she planning something in that vein? Perhaps, especially since the third and second to last shows (May 23-24) are going to be star-studded affairs in what producers have dubbed "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular."

The free shows, being held at Chicago's United Center on May 17, will include "some of the biggest names in movies, music and television in a one-time-only gathering to celebrate the 25-year legacy [of the show]."

Best of all, viewers will be treated to something they rarely see: a surprised Oprah.

"As most of our viewers know, being surprised is not one of Oprah's favorite things," said Harpo executive producer Sheri Salata. "In the spirit of our farewell season, she is making a rare exception and we intend to make the most of that opportunity. It will be something to see!"

Since those episodes will clearly be chocked full of stars, glitz, balloons and freaked-out audience members, show insiders tell me that Oprah may want to go out for good in a more understated, introspective way.

"Her last show will look back at some of her most important and favorite moments from her show," a source says, not surprisingly. "But at the end of the day the show will end where it started. A woman with a microphone looking into a camera and trying to make the world a better place."

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Wednesday 04 May

By Mike

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May 25 can't get here fast enough! Go away, Oprah, you and Gayle go off together and live happily ever after...

By Lyle

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Her and gayle are rich. They will still be on TV. I got Directv tv just to watch the Oprah Winfery Network. My friends and their wifes watch also. Thank God Oprah is not leaving tv. She going on to bigger and better. Oprah, your fans are going satillite Tv with you.
Now, that your ratings are going up on your network, things are going to get better.

Thursday 05 May

By vivi

ewwwwwwwwwwwwww ur gross. Ignorant moron.

By hmilorjr

I do not care who she parades on her final show. I just am glad it is going to be over Finally.

By jex

It's the greatest show in television history. I cried for 2 hours when I first heard her show was ending and I'll need a dozen boxes of tissues for the last episode. I know she has her own network, but I'll miss the Oprah Winfrey Show as we know it. She changed the world.

By Sta

Wow 2 hours really?

By LARA

HA HA YOU CRIED!!! HAHAHA SHE IS A BIGOT AND A TRUE RACIST AND A LIAR. SHE SAT IN REV WRIGHT CHURCH WITH OBAMA AND THEN LEFT AND DENIED SHE EVERY KNEW WHO HE WAS>> LIAR!! WHY WOULD SHE GO TO THAT AMERICAN HATER CHURCH???

By Jex

@ JEX - really? You cried for two hours when you heard the show was ending? Seriously? What are you gonna do when it actually goes off the air? Kill yourself? What an idiotic post. You need a life.....and therapy.

By KENNY NASH

Jex you need to increase your meds up or get them tweeked ASAP. That is the sickest statement I know I have ever seen posted on here. YOUR ONE SICK WOMAN!

KENNY NASH

youtube KENNY NASH "desire"

By Jeff

Just get ahold of your shrink and youll be ok.

By bigtimeliberal

if you go get a job, you wont hav etime to sit home and cry.

By Ron in NY

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Paging Jex - Your Thorazine drip is ready.

By dONNA

Jex you really need to get a life. Crying for 2 hours just because Oprah show is going off the air. YOu need to go to a shrink you need help BAD.

By mary

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I sincerely hope you get the help you need...maybe a friend or two...a cat? Dog? Goldfish?

By Rick Campbell

She is nothing but a bigot who gave Obama millions of dollars towards his campaign. Money well spent. Yeah, right.

Well, Obama DID get elected. So I guess the money was well spent after all.

Rick, why is she a bigot? If anything, Oprah is definitely NOT a bigot. A pompous egomaniac maybe, but not a bigot.

By Larry

It amazes me the amount of idiots slamming Oprah, this woman is an ICON (not that the haters know what the word means) The universe is her playground while small minded people despise her because of their own self hate. If you (haters) haven't figured out her keys to life..YOU WILL NEVER SUCCEED....Good luck Oprah you have changed the WORLD

By Stan

What are you talking about Larry? What world are you living in?? The B*TCH can build schools for girls in Africa, yet what exactly has she done for boys right in her own backyard of the USA???

Once again, GO BLOW HARD!

By Javad

I agree with Stan. Oprah building a school is like me buyig a meal for someone at Burger King. What has she done for her own country? She is just sitting on her pile of cash... while she asks us to donate.

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