On set on her own TV channel OWN, the oprah Winfrey Network.
Oprah is well-known for her generosity with her audience, here giving away a car to each one!
members and family friends until she was forced to run away from home when she was 13. Without a stable home, she was turning into a wild child and at the age of 14, she gave birth to a son but he died in infancy. Her mother unable to control her, and sent her to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a strict disciplinarian and encouraged her to take her education seriously. T is was the epiphany in her life. Her fi rst foray in broadcasting was with Nashville WTVF-TV when she became the fi rst female African American to anchor the news in Nashville when she was 19. In 1983, she moved to Chicago after
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a stint in Baltimore to co-host AM Chicago and within months she beat the top-rating Phil Dohanue Show. Her shows were renamed T e Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986 which she produced under Harpo Productions (her name spelt backwards). T e rest is history.
The Oprah Mantra What set Oprah apart from other successful mega stars are her humility and down-to-earth nature and her pride in acknowledging her root as an African American. Despite her billions, she is known to live frugally. As a ‘graduate’ from the university of hard life in
a disadvantaged background, she is fi lled with compassion for those less fortunate and seems to fi nd joy in giving. Her philanthropic works are legendary notably T e Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa where she invested US$40 million to build a school for gifted girls from underprivileged background. In the Hurricane Katrina disaster, she raised US$11 million and personally donated US$10 million for relief fund to rebuild homes. She champions and funds education for African American men in Morehouse College at Atlanta Georgia. Her generosity to her studio audience is renowned, lavishing them with expensive gifts and even dishing out Pontiac G6 cars to all her lucky audience in the studio on one occasion. Last year she fl ew her entire studio audience of over 300 people and her staff and crew to Australia for a holiday of a lifetime where they were treated like VIPs to celebrate her farewell show.
In her farewell speech to her audience in the grand fi nale show on 25th May of this year, she urged them to follow their dreams. She declared, “Everybody has a calling, fi nd your passion and what lights
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