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Oprah’s greatest TV moments

Dressed in skinny jeans Oprah wheeled a wagon loaded with fat onto the set of her show to represent her 67-pound weight loss. Oprah said recently that this show was her “biggest, fattest” mistake. “I had literally starved myself for four months, not a morsel of food, to get into that pair of size 10 Calvin Klein jeans. Two hours after that show, I started eating to celebrate, of course, within two days those jeans no longer fit!”

Oprah sat down with the extremely private and shy entertainer Michael Jackson after he refused to do an interview for 14 years. The interview attracted a worldwide audience of 90 million people. “It was the most exciting interview I had ever done,” Oprah said. “It certainly was going to be the most watched interview I had ever done.”

Oprah’s favourite things put audiences into a screaming, cheering frenzy on more than one occasion. The show where Oprah goes through a list of her favourite things and then gives them away to the audience proved to be extremely popular with both the studio and home audience.

Oprah stepped on to the set of TV show Friends for their first farewell interview after 10 years of the show.

Tom Cruise famously declared to Oprah, and to the world, that he had found love again with his now wife Katie Holmes.

Oprah surprised her audience members with a new car for each of them worth more than $7 million.

Oprah conducted the first interview with the world’s first pregnant man Thomas and his wife, Nancy.

Always a giver, Oprah surprised this overjoyed woman with a new house.

Jennifer Aniston opened up to Oprah about her love life and her candid interview with Vogue in which she called Angelina Jolie’s past behaviour “really uncool”.

When former child star Mackenzie Phillips appeared on Oprah, she revealed a secret that she had kept for 30 years about her father rock legend John Phillips. She told Oprah of her father’s sexual abuse towards her when she was a child in an interview which stunned the music industry.

Oprah unleashed her support for Barack Obama after he won the election. Oprah says she has always vowed never to campaign on her show. But after the election she said: “So I kept my mouth shut and supported Barack Obama as a private citizen,” she said. “Today, though, the election is over – and I’m unleashed!”

When Sex and the City The Movie hit theatres, who had the exclusive interview with the entire cast? Oprah of course!

Sarah Ferguson the Duchess of York, revealed to Oprah how her family reacted to the news that she accepted a bribe from an undercover reporter in exchange for access to her ex-husband, Britain’s Prince Andrew.

Oprah took her show to Radio City Music Hall Celebrating her magazine O for the Magazine`s 10th Anniversary. She helped Dr Phil shave off his moustache for the first time in many years.

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