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Oprah's Lifeclass

Season Two premiered as Oprah's Lifeclass: The Tour from its first stop at The Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, Missouri on Monday March 26, 2012 at 8/7c with a two-hour live episode with guest co-host Iyanla Vanzant.


Art Munson

Munson is currently writing and producing music for TV some of which have appeared on Oprah, America's Got Talent, Entertainment Tonight and ABC World News.

Beverly Engel

She has appeared on: CNN, Oprah!, Sally Jesse Raphael, Ricki Lake, and Leeza, and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences throughout the United States and Canada.

Carol Bowman

She has appeared on many TV and radio programs, including Oprah, Good Morning America, Unsolved Mysteries, ABC Primetime, "The Katie Couric Show", and The Art Bell Show, as well as shows on A&E, Discovery Channel and the BBC.

Carol Saline

Her national television appearances include Oprah, Donahue, Larry King Live, American Journal, Inside Edition, CBS Good Morning, The Weekend Today Show and Good Morning America.

Chris Bohjalian

The novel was critically acclaimed and was selected by Oprah Winfrey as the October 1998 selection of her Oprah's Book Club, which helped push the book to great financial success.

Daughter of Fortune

Daughter of Fortune (original Spanish title Hija de la fortuna) is a novel by Isabel Allende, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in February 2000.

Dennis Franklin

After retiring from football, Franklin rose to vice president at King World Productions in New York City, a television distributor that produced Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Oprah.

Discovery Health

Discovery Health Channel, a former American cable television network which was replaced in 2011 by the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and later returned as Discovery Fit & Health later that same year

Etta May

She was the winner of the American Comedy Awards Stand-Up Comic of the Year, and has appeared on MTV, Oprah, Comic Strip Live, and as a guest commentator on CBS Sunday Morning.

Frederique van der Wal

Van der Wal has also appeared on programs including: Oprah, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, GMA, The Today Show, E!, VH-1, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Bloomberg Network, and CNN.

Gloria Leonard

Gloria has also been a guest on several talk-shows, including Oprah, Geraldo, Maury, Larry King and Howard Stern.

Harpo

Harpo Productions, a multimedia company founded by Oprah Winfrey ("Harpo" is "Oprah" spelled backwards)

Jack Levin

He has appeared frequently on national television programs, including 48 Hours, 20/20, Dateline NBC, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Oprah, Rivera Live, Larry King Live, and all network newscasts.

John Gottman

Gottman has been seen on, among other television programs, Good Morning America, the Today Show, the CBS Morning News and Oprah.

John J. Nance

He had also appeared on over 1,300 radio and television shows, including The MacNeil–Lehrer Report, Oprah and Larry King Live.

Judith Briles

She is a frequent guest on national television and radio and has appeared on programs including CNN, CNNfn, Oprah, John Gray, MSNBC and Good Morning America.

Kathleen Rooney

Her first book, about Oprah's Book Club, titled Reading with Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America was published by University of Arkansas Press in 2005, and was released in an updated paperback in 2008.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

He has also been featured in the television series Global Spirit and in August 2012, he was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey as a part of her Super Soul Sunday series.

Mark Nepo

Nepo has appeared several times with Oprah Winfrey on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV.

Matt Siegel

The guests on the show include a variety of celebrities, including Oprah, Madonna, Ben Affleck, Dustin Hoffman, Celine Dion, Christopher Reeve, Bette Midler, Ted Danson, Cher, Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell, Harry Connick, Jr., and Michael J. Fox amongst many others.

My Favorite Things

"Oprah's Favorite Things", an annual special on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Note to God

This emotionally packed song, which brought the studio audience to their feet and Oprah Winfrey to tears on The Oprah Winfrey Show, was accompanied by an orchestra, David Foster and the Western Michigan University’s vocal jazz ensemble, Gold Company when it debuted on the show.

Oprah's Anti-war series

On March 6, 2003 Winfrey did a show called “What You Should Know About Iraq,” in which Middle East expert Fawaz Gerges described the suffering of the Iraqi people since Operation Desert Storm.

Oprah's Next Chapter

Throughout the first season, Oprah interviews Aerosmith's Steven Tyler at his New Hampshire home; journeys to Haiti with Sean Penn nearly two years after a devastating earthquake took the lives of more than 300,000 people; tours Skywalker Ranch with George Lucas as her personal guide; has a slumber party at Southern chef Paula Deen's Georgia estate; and travels to a small town in Iowa devoted to the practice of Transcendental Meditation.

The third week of the show saw a steep decline in viewership as Winfrey's interview with Chris Christie drew in only 500,000 viewers on OWN- down over 1 million viewers from the week before.

P. M. Forni

He has been interviewed on several high profile radio and televisions shows, including the ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Sunday Morning, The Gayle King Show, BBC’s Outlook, and Oprah.

Peter Shockey

In addition, both he and his works have appeared on talk shows and television shows such as Oprah and the 700 Club.

Playing Gods

A sticker sheet is provided with the game to allow for other gods and religions, including Scientology (represented by Tom Cruise with a UFO over his head), Zeus, Jehovah’s Witnesses, beer, the Cult of Oprah, the Almighty Dollar, war, Islam, J.R. “Bob” Dobbs (of the Church of the Subgenius), the Flying Spaghetti Monster, death, Satan, television, the Goddess, atheism, the Magic 8 Ball, McWorld (American consumerism), and others.

Players may choose to be any god from Jesus to Buddha, from Cthulhu to Zeus, from the Cult of Oprah to the Almighty Dollar.

Preet Banerjee

Preet Banerjee (born September 27, 1977) is the host of the television show Million Dollar Neighbourhood on the Oprah Winfrey Network, a personal financial expert, and winner of the reality TV series The Ultimate W Expert Challenge, which aired on the W Network in Canada during the summer of 2009.

Presidio Graduate School

Simran Sethi, a journalist who has hosted and appeared on programs produced by the BBC, Martha Stewart, NBC, NPR, Sundance Channel’s The Green, Oprah, and PBS, is a graduate of Presidio Graduate School.

Rachel Ashwell

Oprah featured Ashwell on her webside with a tour of Ashwell's beach house.

Robert Kotler

As a spokesperson for cosmetic surgeons, he regularly appears on radio and television, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News; on such shows as Oprah, Deborah Norville Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Your World with Neil Cavuto, EXTRA, Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.

Self-help book

Many celebrities have marketed self-help books including Jennifer Love Hewitt, Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth Taylor, Charlie Fitzmaurice, Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra and Cher.

Sheri Salata

Sheri Salata (born 1959) is president of Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and Oprah’s Harpo Productions.

Stedman

Stedman Graham (born 1951), American speaker (et al.) associated with Oprah Winfrey

Swedish Broadcasting Commission

The Oprah Winfrey Show was fined several times for improper support (mostly concerning "Oprah's favorite things") and had to be moved from TV4 to TV3.

The Oprah line

The Oprah line is a colloquial term for Oprah Winfrey's finishing time of 4:29:20 in the 1994 Marine Corps Marathon.

The Road

On March 28, 2007, the selection of The Road as the next novel in Oprah Winfrey's Book Club was announced.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Winfrey also included the book as one of the few tangible gifts in her recession-themed thrifty Oprah's Favorite Things that year.

Thomas E. Franklin

He has been a guest on many national programs, including: The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and Oprah.

YTMND

The original "Tom Cruise Kills Oprah" video, on which the YTMND is based, was mentioned on Dateline NBC's "The Mank Blog" segment, VH1's show "Web Junk 20", and CBC Newsworld's "The Hour" with George Stroumboulopoulos.


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