Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey is the hot favourite to host this year’s Tony awards. The US talk show host, who is also tipped to scoop a nomination for co-producing hit musical The Colour Purple, has been approached by organizers to front the event, according to the New York Post. However, Oprah is said to be reluctant to accept the offer because she fears any involvement would look bad if she won on the night. In the past, former hosts Matthew Broderick and Hugh Jackman have both presented the awards while being nominated at the same time. Hollywood favourite Billy Crystal is also on the organizers’ wish list to present the show, which celebrates its 60th birthday this year. Other names rumoured to be in line to host the prestigious ceremony include former hosts Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury and Rosie O’Donnell. [Source]

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Teri Hatcher in tears as dead teen’s mom pays tribute to her.

Teri Hatcher was left in floods of tears on a recent taping of US talk show
Oprah Winfrey when the mother of a teen suicide sent her a special thank you
message for coming forward to help jail the dead girl’s molester.

Here’s a brief summary of Teri on Oprah yesterday where she also talked about how Ryan Seacrest dumped her:

Teri: “It was our third date, but it was our first alone. We went to this shacky
place, way way outside of L.A…”

Oprah: “How did the paparazzi get there?”

Teri: I have no idea, but interestingly enough I haven’t seen him since that
day.”

Oprah: “Not a word since then? What did he say? What did he say when the
pictures came out?”

Teri: “The pictures came out three days later. We knew they had been taken. It
must’ve bothered him though — bothered him enough that an hour after they were
taken he called and said ‘I don’t think I can do this with you.’”

Oprah: “He did? Why?”

Teri: “I don’t know.”

Oprah: “Was it because you were too high profile?”

Teri: “It was because I ate too much lobster. [laughs] No you’d have to ask
him.”

The Desperate Housewives star agreed to secretly testify against her own uncle,
who had molested her 30 years before, when she heard he’d been named as the
cause of 14-year-old Sarah Van Cleemput’s suicide.

Hatcher’s timely testimony in 2002 came just two days before Richard Hayes Stone
was due to walk free. Instead, after the actress came forward, he pleaded guilty
to four counts of child molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Van Cleemput’s family never knew of the identity of the woman who helped jail
the child molester, whose actions prompted Sarah to shoot herself, until Hatcher
called them in March (2006) on the eve of the release of a Vanity Fair article,
in which she revealed everything.

Hatcher welled up on Oprah as she recalled the emotional chat she had with Van
Cleemput’s mother Ingrid, who referred to the actress’ brave decision to come
forward as "the miracle we had been waiting for".

One question: If Teri talks about testifying publicly now, then why did she have to testify secretly at the trial?

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Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher has slammed tabloid reports about her love life, insisting she only had one date with actor George Clooney, and claiming her reported romance with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest is a “non-story”. Hatcher appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show today (MAY 2, 2006) to set the record straight on all of the rumors surrounding her personal life.

Terri explained the tabloids blew her relationship with Clooney out of proportion saying, “That was really fabricated. We went to one dinner back in December (2005), and that was it. No kissing. “Boy, they would not let go of that one! I read things about how he sent me a teddy bear and chocolates for Valentine’s Day, and I’m in my mailbox going, ‘Did he really?’ Because I didn’t get them. “Now they actually refer to him as my ex-boyfriend. It’s hilarious.”

The actress also talked about tabloid pictures showing her kissing American Idol host Ryan Seacrest on a beach in Malibu, California, in March (2006). Hatcher claims the two were set up by a mutual friend, and after two group dinners, they met for lunch at an out-of-the-way location. She said, “It’s such a non-story. Interestingly enough, I haven’t seen him since that day. We knew that the (pictures) had been taken, which must have bothered him enough. “An hour after he dropped me off, he called to say, ‘I don’t think I can do this with you.’ All the things you read in the tabloids about me and men are really non-stories.”

I have a suggestion, how about setting Teri up with Bruce Willis.

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