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OPRAH WINFREY RECLAIMS NO 1 SPOT ON FORBES 2013 MOST POWERFUL CELEBRITIES

After being displaced by singers, Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez in the year 2011 and 2012, billionaire talk show queen, Oprah Winfrey is back to number one spot on Forbes' 2013 most powerful celebrities.

The 59 year-old who's topped the list four times since 1999 is being credited with $77 million (£50m) earnings between June 2012 and June 2013. Forbes writer, Dorothy Pomerantz asserts that she still weilds an enormous amount of power.

"She is taking this cable network and turning it around just through the sheer force of her will, her connections and her ability." She added

For the 2013 compilation, Forbes looked into celebrity's earnings on income from tours, books, contracts, endorsements, movies and residuals etc and how they appeared in the media using different polls.

2013 FORBES' CELEBRITY 100

1) Oprah Winfrey $77m

2) Lady Gaga $80m

3) Steven Spielberg $100m

4) Beyonce $53m

5) Madonna $125m

6) Taylor Swift $55m

7) Jon Bon Jovi $79m

8) Roger Federer $71m

9) Justin Bieber $58m

10) Ellen DeGeneres $56m

11) Hugh Jackman $55m

12) Jennifer Lopez $45m

13) Rihanna $43m

14) Coldplay $64m

15) Tiger Woods $78m

16) LeBron James $60m

17) Simon Cowell $95m

18) Katy Perry $39m

19) David Beckham $47m

20) Robert Downey Jnr $75m

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"I'LL CONTINUE WHERE WHITNEY HOUSTON STOPPED"-BOBBI KRISTINA

About a month after her mother’s untimely death on February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston’s only child, Bobbi Kristina granted her first interview on Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter’.
The 19 year-old recounted her last moments with her mother especially the night before she passed on
“Sometimes she’d come in my room, she’d lay down with me. On the last day, it was so early. I went to go get her. I said, ‘Mom, will you just come lay down with me?’ She stayed with me all day. I slept in her arms all day. All night long.” She reminisced.

After Whitney’s death, she was scared to stay at their family home but felt relieved after Whitney spoke to her. “First night, I couldn’t stay there. Next morning, I woke up and heard her say, ‘OK. Come home now.’ I felt humbled. I felt OK ever since then I’ve been fine to be in that house.”

She’s however determined to follow her mother’s footsteps. “I got to keep moving. I got to carry on her legacy. I still have a voice. We’re going to do the singing thing. We’re going to do some acting, some dancing. It’s a lot of pressure, but she prepared me for it.”

“I can hear her voice. She’s always with me,” she said. “‘I’ve got ya.’ That’s all I heard.” She added.

Source: Yahoo

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OPRAH WINFREY TO INTERVIEW WHITNEY HOUTON'S FAMILY

American talk show Queen, Oprah Winfrey will on March 11, 2012 interview the family members of the late songstress, Whitney Houston.
Tagged “Oprah’s Next Chapter”, the TV special which will air air on the Oprah Winfrey Network will feature members of the late singer’s family.
The list include 18-year-old Bobbi Kristina; Houston’s only child, Bobby Brown; her ex-husband, Patricia Houston, the singer’s sister-in-law, Gary, her brother and her manager, as well as the singer’s brother Gary.
The 57 year-old actress was one of the guests invited to Houston’s funeral last month.

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