Oprah looked a decade younger during an unannounced appearance at Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Hollywood, CA. on Sept. 17.
According to a report, the media mogul paid a fortune to block a documentary about her life from being released on Apple TV Plus.
Oprah, who is worth around $3 billion, shelled out untold millions to keep the documentary from being released.
The documentary was first announced back in January 2021, according to DailyMail.com. Oprah received a large check from Apple TV Plus for the rights to her documentary.
A source claimed that the 70-year-old TV Guru and director Kevin Macdonald “clashed” over the documentary film.
“Kevin made the film, but Oprah didn’t like it and he refused to change it,” a source said. The source added that Oprah bought back the rights from Apple TV Plus.
Industry sources claim Oprah paid “millions” to get the rights back.
“As the Apple TV Plus deal was coming to an end, Ms. Winfrey bought back the rights to her docu-series and has since decided to put the doc on hold,” the source said.
Another source insisted that Macdonald did not refuse to make the edits that Oprah wanted. Oprah simply “had a change of heart” about the film.
The source said “it wasn’t the right time to do a documentary.”
Details about the documentary were kept under wraps. But one source said Oprah threw open the doors to her private life with longtime partner, Stedman Graham, 73, and Oprah’s lifelong friend, Gayle King, 69.
The documentary was set to be a 2-part TV special that would chronicle Oprah’s 45+ years in television. In the 1970’s Oprah became the first Black female news anchor at Nashville’s WLAC-TV.
But in 1977 she was demoted as co-anchor for unknown reasons. Oprah was assigned to work the news desk at the station.
She became a household name after “The Oprah Winfrey Show” premiered nationwide on September 8, 1986. Oprah’s TV ratings doubled Phil Donahue’s national TV audience.
Within a year, The Oprah Winfrey Show was the most popular TV talk show in the nation.
