Happy Birthday Oprah! We’ve spent so much time this last week focussing on your half sister (See: we’ll every other post on this site — it’s called Oprah’s half sister after all), that we almost forgot about your birthday.
So you’re 57 now Oprah… what’s next? You’ve pretty much done it all, exploited everything possible for attention … and now you even have another human being who is destined to be known as “Oprah’s half sister”. You’ve got a president, Obama, in your pocket, a TV and magazine empire and now your own network…
Honestly, I’m just not sure that my gift-card to JCPenny is going to cut it for you — you really do seem to have everything.
Oh well, I hope you’re enjoying your 57th birthday! We all love you Ms. Oprah.
With the revelation of Oprah’s half sister, Patricia, last week, twitter has been a-buzz with many Oprahisms offering advice on alternative ways Oprah could have made the announcement. Here’s are few of my favorites as well as some other great Oprah tweets.
“Look under your seat. You get a half sister! You get a half sister! You get a half sister! You get a half sister! Everybody gets a half sister!”
“Oprah plans on auctioning off her half sister for charity.”
“Oprah just made her half sister legally change her name to Oprah’s Half Sister”
“Oprah announces half sister! #oprahshalfsister releases one word statement..”Ka-ching!”"
“Oprah’s half sister once went on a Cruise and got yelled at by a guy named Tom Couch #oprahshalfsister“
There are so many more good Oprah’s half sister lines, but I just wanted to give everyone a little taste this morning!
Great news for Oprah:
Oprah’s revelation that she has a half-sister earned the talk diva her biggest ratings of the season – a 9.9 rating/23 share weighted metered market average for the show’s primary runs, according to Nielsen Media Research. When all telecasts are factored in, the episode did a still-large 6.9/17.
That’s the show’s highest ratings in almost six years, since Oprah’s post-Oscar episode on February 28, 2005.
On Monday, Jan. 24, Oprah Winfrey revealed on her talk show that she has a half-sister, Patricia. Apparently Winfrey’s mother, Vernita Lee, had the girl in Milwaukee, Wisc., and gave her up for adoption while Winfrey was living with her father in Tennessee. Patricia ended up in foster homes until she was 7 and then was lucky enough to find a new adoptive family.
Winfrey learned definitively about Patricia in October, although the process took years. Winfrey’s mother refused to acknowledge Patricia because she was ashamed about giving Patricia up, Lee said. DNA testing finally confirmed the truth.
Patricia has two children – Aquarius and Andre – so Winfrey also has suddenly gained a niece and nephew. Winfrey had two other half-siblings – another sister, Pat, and a brother, Jeffrey – but both are deceased.
mike_caridi Oprah finds out she has a long lost sister her mum put up for adoption 50 years ago. Can you say JACKPOT! #oprah
YOU get a sister! YOU get a SISTER!! EVERY. BODY. GETS. A. (long lost adopted 1/2) SISTER!!!!!1!!!! #Oprah
RT @TheSistahChick: Why does everyone think that being related to #Oprah automically makes a person rich?
When #oprah met her sister did she say “miss Sophia home now!”
Who gives a crap about #Oprah and her half sister! #soannoying!
I would be HEATED if I just recently found out that I was related to #Oprah lol .. mad money missed out on lol
Ok-so #Oprah had a secret yesterday with a half sister. What’s today? The other half.
just found out im #oprah’s long lost brother!
see that’s why Oprah isn’t your auntie always begging & trying to get her to spend her good money #Oprah
‘O’ My God — Timing Is Everything for Oprah’s Revelation About Her Half-Sister
Oprah – She is the Queen of All Media, a woman so successful she has her own TV show, her own magazine, $2.7 billion in the bank, a book club that can make any author a best seller and now her own TV network. And, conveniently, Oprah also has a “secret” she had to share with 6.7 billion close friends – just in time to promote her fledgling cable channel. Oprah’s secret was the sudden revealing of a long-lost half sister – truly a touching moment in anyone’s life. But, in this case, it was a moment more touched by ratings than reality.
Oprah billed the event as a “miracle.” “I was given some news that literally shook me to my core. This time, I’m the one being reunited,” reported the Associated Press. “I was keeping a family secret for months, and on Monday you’re going to hear it straight from me.” That might lack the sexiness of Geraldo’s “Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults,” but it’s not exactly subtle either. Read the rest of this entry »
CHICAGO - Oprah Winfrey says she’s learned she has a half-sister she never knew about.
Winfrey announced on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that aired on Monday that a Milwaukee woman named Patricia discovered that the two were half-sisters.
The woman says she had been searching for years for the identity of the mother who gave her up for adoption in 1963. She says she learned in 2007 that Winfrey was her half-sister. On her program, Winfrey says she learned about Patricia last November.
Winfrey says she was 9 years old and living with her father when her mother had the daughter and gave her up for adoption. She says she never even knew her mother was pregnant.
Winfrey says the two met on Thanksgiving day.
CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey has discovered she has a half-sister — a Milwaukee woman who was given up for adoption by Winfrey’s mother nearly 50 years ago, when the talk show host was eight years old.
An emotional Winfrey introduced her newly found sibling to viewers Monday and explained the woman’s persistent quest to find her birth mother.
“This, my friends, is the miracle of all miracles,” Winfrey said before bringing out the 48-year-old woman, who throughout the program was identified only as Patricia, with no mention of her occupation or any other details.
After years of searching for blood relatives, the woman met Winfrey on Thanksgiving Day of last year.
When Patricia was born in Milwaukee in 1963, the young Winfrey was living with her father and did not even know her mother was pregnant, she said.
Patricia, who Winfrey said bounced from foster home to foster home until she was adopted at age 7, had given up after previous searches for her mother. But she decided to resume looking several years ago at the insistence of her grown children.
The effort seemed to hit a dead end when a woman from the Wisconsin adoption agency called to respond to her inquiries.
“She was telling me that my birth mother had called her back, and she had made the decision at that particular time that she did not want to see me,” Patricia said. Read the rest of this entry »
The talk show host told viewers that a Milwaukee woman named Patricia had found out that the two were related.
After years of searching for the identity of the mother who gave her up for adoption in the 1960s, Patricia learned in 2007 that Oprah was her half-sister. On The Oprah Winfrey Show the presenter revealed she learned about Patricia last November and met her on Thanksgiving day.
An emotional Oprah described the discovery as “the miracle of all miracles” and said one of the most impressive things was that her half-sister never tried to profit from her.
“She never once thought to sell the story,” Oprah said, describing how she felt betrayed by other relatives who sought publicity or money.
“Family business should be handled by family,” Patricia said on the show. “It couldn’t be handled by anyone else. That’s not fair. It wouldn’t be fair to you.” Read the rest of this entry »
Oprah’s huge family secret was revealed on Monday: she has a half-sister named Patricia.
Vernita Lee, Oprah’s mother, gave Patricia up for adoption in 1963, but kept her a secret from her daughter. Oprah was nine years old and living with her father when her mother had the baby. She said she never even knew Vernita was pregnant.
WOW — now that’s breaking news.
Oprah and Patricia were publicly reunited on Monday’s show. Oprah showed video of her and her partner, Steadman Graham, driving to Milwaukee to meet Patricia for the first time on Thanksgiving Day last year.
Patricia said she started thinking that Oprah might be her sister when she saw an interview with Vernita Lee on television. The information Lee gave coincided with what she knew about her birth family. Read the rest of this entry »
