After various websites noted a curious surge in votes Tuesday for a contestant in Oprah Winfrey’s “Your OWN Show” contest, OWN, the television network Winfrey will launch in January, confirms to EW it is investigating. The online contest is really a search for contestants for an OWN reality series in which competitors will then vie […]

Whoopi Goldberg made a sad announcement on “The View”: her mother, Emma Johnson, died on August 29 following a stroke. Goldberg left the London production of “Sister Act” to return to the US following her mother’s stroke. On “The View” Tuesday, Goldberg described her mother, who got her Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education at […]

Fresh off an Australian tour with her frenzied talk-show fans, Oprah Winfrey is taking a respite in the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, where the military regime wished her “a great time.” Fiji’s tourism minister said Winfrey was spending the Christmas holiday there and that officials wanted to respect her privacy. Local media reported […]