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Full title......'She not comin' over to your house. You don't have to like her': Oprah gives Hillary Clinton a less-than-warm endorsement................... The talk show queen told a TV audience in a taping for T.D. Jakes' show that liking Clinton is not a requisite for voting for the Democrat Winfrey was with Barack Obama in 2008. She told an audience that year that he was 'the one' - a phrase with messianic inferences Flash forward eight years: Oprah said this past June that she's voting for Clinton; 'There really is no choice,' she told Jakes

Rosie O’Donnell’s TV history is repeating itself — and, as in the past, it’s getting ugly. O’Donnell’s talk show, “The Rosie Show,” is imploding just five months after launching on Oprah Winfrey’s little-watched OWN cable network. Not only is “The Rosie Show” a ratings disaster — it averaged just 150,000 viewers last week — but O’Donnell is selling her $2.5 million mansion in Chicago, where the show tapes, and reportedly wants to move the production to New York. That would leave producer Harpo with empty, expensive, unused studio space it might not want to surrender so easily. [Snip] Adding...

Sarah Palin crushed Oprah Winfrey last night when the two went head to head at 9 p.m. EST on the Fox News Channel and CNN.Palin appeared on Fox's Hannity to give her first interview in the wake of media attacks on her over the Arizona massacre while Winfrey was the prize guest on the debut of Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN's successor to the Larry King Show.The New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, New York Magazine and Broadcasting & Cable each gave Piers Morgan the headlines for their articles about the ratings battle, even though his show placed a decisive...

Discovery Communications and Oprah Winfrey have pushed out Christina Norman as chief executive of OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, after a tough start for the five-month old cable network. Discovery Chief Operating Officer Peter Ligouri will take over from Norman on an interim basis, in addition to his current role. OWN, which launched in the United States on January 1, has struggled to win ratings in its first five months.

Sheryl Crow: Obama 'walks the walk' By PATRICK GAVIN | 5/4/11 4:04 PM EDT Updated: 5/4/11 5:38 PM EDT Singer Sheryl Crow spoke with Gayle King Wednesday about her own reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden. "It's fascinating times that we're living in," Crow said on "The Gayle King Show" on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network. "The first thing I thought was, I felt the same way everyone else did, mixed emotions about the fact that we killed someone. ... We know that killing is not right. In this particular instance, we have such an association with this person...