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Behold, The Power Of Oprah

By Marcus Gilmer in Arts & Entertainment on Apr 12, 2010 7:00PM


Infamous biographer Kitty Kelley is making the publicity rounds to promote her new unauthorized biography of Oprah Winfrey but she may find more appearances hard to come by. There's plenty of juicy tidbits [via] in the book but it seems some shows aren't too anxious to get on Oprah's bad side and aren't booking Kelley, including Larry King and Rachel Ray. From the Sun-Time's Oprah blog:
Kelley says she's even been snubbed by Rachael Ray, "which is kind of understandable because she's an Oprah acolyte."

"All said very openly that it was because of Oprah," Kelley says.

ABC has even banned Kelley and promotion of her Oprah book from any show on its network.

It's not the first shot a major publication - if that's what one can consider a Kelley biography - Oprah's taken recently, even dating back to last year's Newsweek cover story. One man not afraid of Oprah? But of course: Bill O'Reilly, where Kelley is headed next on her promotional tour.