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Posted 24th January 2011 at 16.19 clock

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Video: On his Friday show, Oprah Winfrey, said, "tease" shocking family secret that she "literally shook [his] heart." Fans who have already learned that the talk show queen as a child been molested, and gave birth and lost a child to 14 were in the balance, until today, when Oprah announced that she recently discovered he has a younger half-sister named Patricia, since the adoption of the mother of Oprah Winfrey in 1963. When Oprah lived with her father and knew nothing of the pregnancy of his mother. "I thought I had seen everything," the new Oprah. "But that, my friends is the miracle of miracles. "Oprah's half-sister and his mother appeared on Winfrey Show today.
The reaction: The media all not disappoint, "said Darren Franich in Entertainment Weekly. Queen "Meh, the announcement has been relatively" boring ", says Julie Miller Movieline expected." Grotesque I Mackenzie Phillips, as a disclosure of fireworks accompanied John Travolta one led by the drum line and a 20-minute speech free-form about "hope," "but I have something like a" feel "to lead stunt using the interest for their brand, and store ratings descent that 'they will not care. "Okay," said Lisa de Moraes in the Washington Post. In the wake of Oprah's "triumphant visit to Australia," it feels as easily made the announcement "for the delay in the feedback of this week. " And although she said Winfrey wanted to break the news themselves, "said the media would not be affected" is not the same played by the revelation? See a report on ABC's Oprah's announcement, below:

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