What better place than Harvard for Lady Gaga to take the world to school?! The pop superstar, her mother Cynthia and the mother of all talk show hosts, Oprah Winfrey , were at the Ivy League university's Sanders Theatre to officially launch Gaga's Born This Way Foundation. Which, contrary to the singer's reputation as a fervent antibullying advocate, is not an antibullying charity. And no, Oprah, the three pillars of the organization are not "bravery, acceptance and love." MORE: GLAAD Media Award Nominations Go to Anderson Cooper, Lady Gaga, Chaz Bono and More Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player . "Those are...well, those are three important aspects of the foundation," Gaga tactfully corrected the OWN founder, "but the three pillars are 'SSO.' Remember these things today, it would make me very very happy: Safety. Skills. Opportunity." Well, then. &q

Image Credit: Charles Krupa/AP Lady Gaga is causing quite a sensation on Harvard Universitys campus. The singer is at the school for Wednesdays launch of her Born This Way Foundation with Oprah Winfreyand U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She says in an interview with The Associated Press that the foundations goal is to empower youth and inspire bravery. The foundation shares a name with her album and she says its message will be for students to create a more loving environment at their schools and in the world. About 100 students mobbed the singer as she arrived on campus in a sleek black dress, tall hat and platform shoes. She signed autographs and posed for photos. Read more : Lady Gaga before she was famous: See the shockingly normal photos Lady Gagas Born This Way Foundation to launch this month, with the support of Oprah Lady Gaga: 35 Outrageous Outfits

Oprah Winfrey had a little fun with Jimmy Kimmel, poking fun at her book club in the process. Photos: 2012 Academy Awards arrivals photos Oscar night's best speeches Stories: Jimmy Kimmel 'bowled over' by Oprah Winfrey Jimmy Kimmel presents 'Movie: The Movie,' featuring Meryl Streep with mustache (Video) Oscars 2012: Full list of winners of the Academy Awards Winfrey appeared on Kimmel's post Oscar show on February 26 and in one segment, Kimmel pretended to pitch ideas for the television personality's network. The Oprah Winfrey Network, known as OWN, launched last year after ending Winfrey hit syndicated talk show ! "The Opr ah Winfrey Show" after 25 years. OWN has struggled in the ratings, although it has seen a rise since the premiere of her series "Oprah's Next Chapter" in January. Winfrey faced a bit of controversy and apologized after posting a Tweet asking people to watch her cable channel OWN, a move that was mocked by severa

Oprah Winfrey loved her hammered gold sequin encrusted Theia gown so much she wore it twice! PHOTOS: Best Oscar dresses of all time The talk show queen, 58, first wore the curve-hugging dress on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine 's September 2011 issue. At Sunday's 84th Annual Academy Awards, Winfrey donned the custom-made frock yet again while being honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award . PHOTOS: Celebs who repeat red carpet looks Post-show, Winfrey teamed up with Jimmy Kimmel for a series of sketches on Kimmel's post-Oscars special. The premise revolved around Kimmel pitching new show ideas to the OWN network CEO, including Oprah Repos Her Favorite Things , The Jimmy and Oprah Interview , Oprah After Dark and Book Club Fight Club . VIDEO: Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King go camping! "It was as fun as it looked," Winfrey tweeted early Monday morning. "He really is adorable. And so is his team. Great experience!" Tell Us : Do you like Oprah

Oprah Winfrey was seen brawling with other members of the "Book Club Fight Club" in a comedic segment for Jimmy Kimmel's Oscar special. ADVERTISEMENT The actress, producer and TV personality gamely took part in a pre-taped video in which Kimmel pitches her increasingly bad ideas for new shows for her Oprah Winfrey Network, including "The Jimmy and Oprah Interview," in which he and Winfrey could ask celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston questions at the same time and see how she reacts. In another proposed program, "Oprah Repos Her Favorite Things," Winfrey, dressed in sweats and sunglasses, breaks the window of a car and drives off in it, yelling, "I've got a car!" Winfrey was known for giving away lavish gifts, even cars, to the studio audience of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which wrapped its 25-year run last May. Suggesting how he got Winfrey to participate, Kimmel is shown in other footage standing outside her bedroom window wit

Credit: O Magazine/AP Photo Oprah Winfrey received plenty of comparisons to an Oscar statuette when she wore a gold Theia gown to the Academy Awards. But that isn't the only striking thing about the dress. Oprah must like the fit of the scoop-necked, sequined number because she's worn it twice now. Before she donned it on Sunday night to accept the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, she was photographed in it for the September 2011 issue of "O, The Oprah Magazine." Perhaps she liked the way it looked on the cover so much that she decided to make a second appearance in it. She even kept her hair and accessories similar, aside from the addition of the shining Oscar statuette. It was clearly comfortable enough for a long night. After the show, Oprah joined Jimmy Kimmel for spoofs and interviews on his post-Oscar special. Maybe we'll see it show up soon on her Favorite Things list. Kwala Mandel is an editor for Yahoo! who works on special projects ranging from the

February Monday Perhaps my biggest regret last night is leaving the lovely Oscar party I attended hours before Jimmy Kimmel Live aired a sketch that, in 7 minutes, was infinitely more entertaining than all of Billy Crystals Oscars Eulogy. Yes, now that her talk show isnt on the air anymore and the world is left without her mighty Oscar special, Oprah Winfrey has got literal minutes of free time on her satin-lined hands. So much so that she spent an afternoon taking show pitches from the funniest man on late night, Jimmy Kimmel. Shows like Oprah Repos Her Favorite Things and Oprahs Fight Club Book Club. Its the best thing to happen last night. Also all these shows need to actually get made thank you. (via ABC )

ABC The excitement of Oscar Sunday continued after Academy Awards host Billy Crystal said goodnight when Jimmy Kimmel welcomed Oprah Winfrey and the band Coldplay for a special post-Oscars show on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Kimmel opened the show with a gag skit where he was waiting outside the back entrance at the Oscars for Crystal to exit, and bribed the host with a briefcase full of cash for an Oscar of his own. As Crystal drove off with his cash, Kimmel was surprised to see Sesame Streets Oscar the Grouch emerge from the bag he expected his statue to be in. Kimmel entered his studio wearing a tuxedo and with two dazzling beauties on each arm, and riffed on the nights big winners in his monologue, joking that The Help was so popular with audiences that Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to get it pregnant, and that although Meryl Streep won the best actress award, he personally thought Viola Davis was robbed by Lindsay Lohan. Although Winfrey, who took home an honorary Oscar on Sunday night, mad

Jimmy Kimmel says he was "bowled over" by Oprah Winfrey, who will appear on his special post-Oscars show after the 2012 Academy Awards on Sunday, February 26. Photos: 2012 Academy Awards arrivals photos Stories: Oscars 2012: Full list of winners of the Academy Awards Oprah Winfrey slammed over Tweet, seen as bid to draw ratings Jimmy Kimmel to host Kobe Bryant's Hollywood handprint and footprint ceremony Kimmel, host of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" has often joked about Winfrey throughout her time as the host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which ended in 2011 after some 25 years. She launched her own cable channel, OWN, in January. "You see people on television and you think, 'Oh, well, that's what they are on television,' and then you meet them and you're like, 'Oh my god, not only is she as good as on television, she's actually better than on television,'" he told OnTheRedCarpet.com. "I'm serious. I have

H. Seigel Fine Auctions has recently sold one of the Limited Edition O pendants, a highly coveted piece of jewelry designed exclusively for Oprah Winfrey . Only 100 of these pendants were produced worldwide, with the pink diamonds coming from the Rio Tintos Argyle mine in Australia. The exclusive piece of jewelry received 29 bids in less than 6 minutes and sold for $35,000.00 USD, reflecting the increasing appreciation of the value of rare colored diamonds. Sunrise, FL (PRWEB) February 24, 2012 H. Seigel Fine Auctions has recently sold one of the Limited Edition O pendants, a highly coveted piece of jewelry designed exclusively for Oprah Winfrey. Only 100 of these pendants were produced worldwide, with the pink diamonds coming from the Rio Tintos Argyle mine in Australia. The exclusive piece of jewelry received 29 bids in less than 6 minutes and sold for $35,000.00 USD, reflecting the increasing appreciation of the value of rare colored diamonds. HSFineAuctions.com is the worlds premi

Oprah Winfrey lists NYC pad for $7.9m [newKerala.com News # 163832] Home News RSS Feeds Photo Gallery Home > News > hollywood-news Washington, Feb 25 : After having given up her talk show last year, Oprah Winfrey is apparently unloading some prime real estate as well. According to Zillow, the 58-year-old TV personality is parting with the posh Manhattan penthouse apartment she purchased in 2008 for 7.1 million dollars, which is now in the market for 7.9 million dollars. Winfrey's BFF Gayle King once reportedly lived in the 2,530-square-foot property, at Midtown Manhattan's Place 57, which features three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and is surrounded by floor-to-ceiling glass windows, Us magazine reported. The pad also has a wrap-around terrace with breathtaking city views. The 36th floor spread has 12-foot high ceilings and a "triangle-shaped" living room, a "state-of-the-art" kitchen and a high-end dining area. The master suite features thre

Oprah Winfrey is bidding adieu to her posh New York City pad. The 58-year-old bought a penthouse at Midtown Manhattan 's Place 57 for $7.1 million in 2008; the 2,530-square-foot property is now on the market for $7.9 million, according to Zillow . PHOTOS: Celebrity dream homes Winfrey's BFF Gayle King once reportedly lived in the penthouse, which features three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and is surrounded by floor-to-ceiling glass windows. It also has a wrap-around terrace with breathtaking city views. The 36th floor spread has 12-foot high ceilings and a "triangle-shaped" living room, a "state-of-the-art" kitchen and a high-end dining area. The master suite features three walk-in closets and a spa-style tub. VIDEO: Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King go camping! Winfrey owns several other properties in Illinois, Hawaii and California. Tell Us : Would you spend $7.9 million for Oprah Winfrey 's penthouse? Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter , Frien

Oprah at this past winter's Television Critics Association meeting. The going rate for a 30-second spot in the May 25 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show is a cool $1 million, and if the price holds, it will mark the fourth highest unit cost for a series finale in TV history. Media buyers say the end of Oprahs 25-year run should prove to be an indelible television event, thereby justifying at least some of that hefty price tag. Naturally, clients are betting that the closer will prove to be a ratings blockbuster although the price is not being tied to any sort of traditional ratings guarantee. No ones truly interested in forking over a $145 CPM, which is about how the math works out if you weigh the unit price against Oprahs year-ago average delivery of 7 million viewers per episode. Odds are, however, that the finale will draw at least double that amount in live viewing; time-shifted deliveries could bump the total up to as many as 25 million viewers. In that scenario, the CPM would

iStock Photo; Scott Olson/Getty Images This story first appeared in the March 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Who would have thought it would come to this: Oprah Winfrey begging for viewers? The former queen of daytime syndication recently sent a tweet to her nearly 9 million followers, begging the ones with Nielsen boxes to watch her channel. The original tweet (since deleted) read thusly: "Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Neilsen [sic] box." She deleted the message, apologized via The New York Times and will have ratings for that night listed with an asterisk that indicates coercion or bias has occurred. But what does the tweet say about Winfrey and OWN after 13 long months trying to launch a new channel? PHOTOS: Oprah Through the Years That this is less a numbers story than the implosion of a cult of personality -- perhaps the biggest and most surprising ego check in recent entertainment history. Maybe that's why, not long after

If youve wanted to see the Oprah show live, but never made it, you have a second chance. You will be able to see her at the Peabody Opera House next month. Oprahs Lifeclass: The Tour will be taping at the Peabody on March 26, 2012. You must be a member of Oprahs Lifeclass in order to request tickets. You can put in a ticket reservation at Oprah.com from 10 a.m. until just before midnight on Saturday. Like this: Be the first to like this post.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, announced today that Oprah Winfrey will be joining them at Harvard University for the official launch of the Born This Way Foundation (BTWF) on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012. Oprah will appear alongside Lady Gaga as she formally unveils BTWF before a crowd of policy makers, non-profit organizations, foundation leaders, students and youth at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Forum. Lady Gaga also will be joined by several renowned guests including prolific author and speaker Deepak Chopra, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, and Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School's Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. The one-day event will be co-hosted by BTWF, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the John D. & Catherine T.

Image Credit: George Burns/Harpo Inc. Oprahs Lifeclass will return to OWN with six new episodes beginning March 26, the network announced today. Oprah Winfrey is taking the show on the road this season, with episodes being taped at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, New Yorks Radio City Music Hall, and another to-be-determined location. Taking Lifeclass on the road gives Oprah the opportunity to connect on a whole new level with our viewers in person, on-air and online, said Sheri Salata, president, OWN. We are gathering the most inspiring teachers to discuss the fundamental life principles that are the keys to unlocking our own greatest potential. Bishop T.D. Jakes and author Iyanla Vanzant will be featured during the St. Louis episode on March 26. Deepak Chopra and Tony Robbins join Oprah at Radio City Music Hall on April 2. Read more: Oprah in talks for Lee Daniels The Butler Oprah joins Jimmy Kimmel post-Oscar special Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls celebrates first

Oprah Winfrey has apologized after posting a Tweet asking people to watch her cable channel OWN, a move that was mocked by several Twitter users. Photos: 'Oprah Winfrey Show' facts and figures Forbes Celeb 100 List Photogallery Stories: Oprah Winfrey names herself CEO of OWN 'Oprah' jury excuse gets juror off Blagojevich trial Oprah Winfrey's farewell: Madonna says its an honor to be near her She had launched the network last year after ending her hit syndicated talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show" after 25 years. OWN has struggled in the ratings, although it has seen a rise since the premiere of her series "Oprah's Next Chapter" in January. On Sunday, February 11, Winfrey's Twitter page, which is verified, featured a Tweet that said: "Eve! ry 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Neilsen box (sic)." The New York Times said officials from OWN and Nielsen "corresponded on Monday morning" and that Winfrey&

Tyra Banks has hit back at claims that she is in competition with Oprah Winfrey, saying it is "impossible" to rival her amount of success. The America's Next Top Model judge sat down for a question and answer session at Harvard's Business School where she has ditched the limelight to take a course. Addressing the comparisons between her and TV talk show queen Oprah, Tyra said: "The comparisons are extremely flattering, impossible to live up to and inconsistent with my goals." Tyra also explained why she decided to head back to college when she is already incredibly successful. "There's a difference between a career and a business. I'm not looking to build my company based on fans. It's not about being the biggest, but being the best." Speaking about her personality differs from the way she is portrayed on ANTM , Tyra said: "I wish I was hard. I have armour, but a strategic knife can still get in those creases. It's okay to be

February 16, 2012, 12:04 pm By BRIAN STELTER Oprah Winfrey is repackaging her 2009 interview with the pop star Whitney Houston for a Thursday night special on OWN, her ratings-challenged cable channel. The two-hour special, Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Interview, comes five days after Ms. Houston was found dead in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. A private funeral will be held on Saturday . OWN is billing the program on its Web site as a no-holds-barred conversation. The interview was originally shown in September 2009 as the season premiere of The Oprah Winfrey Show, and it makes sense that OWN would queue up a repeat of it now, given that several networks and cable channels have scheduled special shows about Ms. Houston. OWN has started to repurpose old episodes of Ms. Winfreys talk show in an attempt to raise her profile on the channel, which is named for her but has suffered from a lack of Oprah programming in its first year. CBS This Morning showed s

Glenda Sopha attended the Oprah Winfrey Show last year, but the surprises keep coming. Sopha, of Bayport, got more than she bargained for when she attended the show last Novemer. She and her granddaughter got tickets at the last minute and walked away from the show with several thousand dollars' worth of prizes. "I've been such a big fan of Oprah's and my granddaughter had been trying to get us tickets," Sopha said. "She got through and I really think we got the last two seats in the house." Sopha said they received more than $7,000 worth of "this and that," including a Coach purse, iPad, cookware and $1,000 to Nordstrom's. Plus, they each won a car. Sopha was a winner of Oprah's Biggest Giveway, which that day was a 2012 VW Beetle. After nearly a year from winning the prize, Sopha finally picked up her new car last week. "It's getting to be that same excitement again because it's finally coming," Sopha said a few days

It is only February, but those in the syndicated television industry care only about September. That is when a multitude of new daytime talk shows will come onto the market, the first real test for the genre since Oprah Winfrey signed off nine months ago. There will be Jeff Probst, the Survivor host, whose talk show will be made by CBS, the same company that distributed The Oprah Winfrey Show; Ricki Lake, Steve Harvey and Trisha Goddard; and Katie Couric , whose talk show is, according to industry analysts, the most anticipated of them all. None of the new hosts are making bold claims about reinventing the talk show genre; they merely want to keep it stable. That is not an easy task at a time when the overall broadcast television audience is shrinking. But talk shows are reliable and relatively inexpensive to produce, and thus they remain alluring for local stations in a post-Oprah world. Come September, the new shows will join Dr. Phil McGraw and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the two Oprah protgs w

By Amelia Proud Last updated at 11:53 PM on 18th February 2012 They're two of the biggest stars in the world, but Oprah Winfrey and Mariah Carey made a conscious effort to blend into the congregation at Whitney Houston's 'going home' service. Today was, after all, about one diva, and only diva only... and it was paramount that Whitney Elizabeth 'Nippy' Houston took centre-stage for the last time. So mindful of their superstar statuses and the chaos that follows in their wake, Winfrey and Carey undertook every conceivable measure to retain a low-profile. Famous faces in the congregation: Oprah Winfrey and Mariah Carey blended into the crowd today as Whitney's church community was allowed to take their girl back again The talk show behemoth kept her head down as she entered the church in head-to-toe black, and Carey, a friend of the late star, went for an uncharacteristically muted look. With her hair scraped back into a unfussy ponytail, ebony clothing coveri