Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is struggling with very poor ratings at her OWN network, which is expected to lose "$143,000,000" this year. According to a Bloomberg report, the network is suffering from "miniscule" ratings, even though it has received "$312,000,000" in funding from parent company Discovery.
The network has not connected with the public and the majority of its shows are failing. Winfrey left prime time television to focus on the cable network, but it has not been her strong suit and is a costly venture. Recently, Winfrey axed the awful Rosie O'Donnell show, which received very low viewing numbers and laid off 30 people, including the company's Chief Financial Officer.
The nation of Malawi is turning on pop tart Madonna all over again. Madonna and her fellow racist, n-word using cult Kabbalah, are currently under criminal investigation for tax evasion and stealing charity donations from people all over the world, including Malawi.
Madonna and Kabbalah solicited over $60,000,000 in donations in Malawi's name and only gave them $650,000, while spending the rest on themselves and lavish living, including sports cars, jewels and mansions in Beverly Hills. Madonna deceitfully promised to build a girls school in Malawi, imitating the positive publicity talk show host Oprah Winfrey received for actually doing so.
However, Madonna was accused of staging a big publicity fueled ground breaking, getting her pictures in papers all over the world, then ditching the country, pocketing millions in cash with her equally greedy Kabbalah buddies. She left the impoverished African nation starving and without the promised school.
Malawi has been angered all over again, as Madonna recently announced she will build 10 schools in their nation, looking for more charity donations from the public, to pocket the funds all over again. This week, Malawi's government declared, Madonna is running roughshod over them and has no permit to build 10 schools.
She created such a fiasco with the first school that has yet to materialize, by psychotically bulldozing an entire village of homes, only to leave the poor without a roof over the heads and no school for their children, to show for it. Madonna is a depraved racist that thinks black people are slaves.
They never should have agreed to anything with that sick madwoman, who only cares about herself. However, her excuse going around in the entertainment industry is that "I just needed the money to tie me over for the time being" because her career has been in a tailspin for over a decade.
It's no secret that Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network has been struggling with poor ratings. The interview Winfrey landed with the family of the late singer Whitney Houston, proved to be a ratings coup for her, giving OWN its best numbers to date. The interview was watched by an estimated 3,500,000 viewers, which are decent figures for cable television. However, it may not be enough to save the network.
Oprah Winfrey's interview with the late Whitney Houston's family aired yesterday and while it was touching and confirmed a few details regarding the singer's death, it was not particularly revealing. Items that were confirmed include the Judiciary Report's contentions on February 13, 2012, February 16, 2012 and March 10, 2012 that Houston, 48 and Ray J, 31 were romantically involved and that it was a bad idea (even though he now claims they were just friends).
Houston's sister-in-law and manager, Pat Houston, stated to Winfrey, she saw the singer dangerously "chasing a dream" of a "young man" that likes to be "out and about" and an "older woman" that likes to "stay home." This was indeed a reference to Ray J and Houston's tumultuous relationship and 17-year age difference.
Oprah Winfrey and Bobbi Kristina Brown
I think Houston took a liking to Ray J because he is a bad boy and looks like her ex-husband Bobby Brown (they are both male singers with goatees, similar complexions and physical builds). I don't particularly think she liked being a "cougar" which is slang for an older woman dating a younger man, but she transferred her feelings for bad boy Brown to Ray J.
However, Ray J, like Brown, is promiscuous and broke her heart. But with Ray J, Houston had to deal with the age difference making her feel old and one of his irate girlfriends, Stacy Francis, 41, from Fox/Sony's "X-Factor" stalking her to the club and repeatedly confronting her in an unpleasant manner, two days before her death. Pat Houston spoke of Francis following them all over the club in a manner they deemed uncomfortable and confrontational (is everyone on or affiliated with Sony a stalker - do they give them stalking classes or something).
Bobby Brown
The incident regarding Ray J and Stacy Francis definitely depressed Houston and made her feel old, adding to her worries about her vocal woes and forthcoming album. You could see it on her face in pictures, as she exited the club that she was sad and upset.
It was just another reminder that Ray J, who she was enamored with, was not going to be faithful to her and had his iron in several fires. Unfaithful people like Ray J need to realize their promiscuity hurts others and sometimes in ways they could not imagine. If you are not serious about someone nor do you intend to be faithful, don't lead the person on.
An angry and upset Whitney Houston and Pat Houston leaving club Tru two days before the singer's death, after being confronted by one of Ray J's women, Stacy Francis
The week Houston died, she was contemplating getting plastic surgery, but failed the physical, due to damage to her system from years of heavy smoking, drinking and drug use. She was a prime candidate for cardiac arrest on the operating table during plastic surgery.
However, she really didn't need plastic surgery, just some gentle detox to reduce toxins in her system (from smoking, drinking and drugs), skin rejuvenation and Pilates, to be back to her best, as she had aged very well. She had no wrinkles or crows feet and her face still looked tight.
Ray J surrounded by women (as usual)
But when you date a man nearly two decades your junior, it will convince you that you need plastic surgery, even when you do not. It will convince you that you need a face lift, lip injections, botox, breast implants, butt tightening and butt silicone injections.
Before long you'll look like Frankenstein. Being in Hollywood makes it worse, where even women in their twenties like Megan Fox and Heidi Montag are damaging their looks with excessive plastic surgery. Hollywood destroys people's self-image into a look that is not often better than what they had before.
Stacy Francis from Simon Cowell's "X-Factor" talent show
Another interesting point of the interview was that Houston daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, showed is trying to persevere through grief. However, talking to a deceased loved one is not a great idea, as the Bible says people are not to communicate with the dead. Emotionally, it also delays achieving closure.
Bobbi Kristina Brown also confirmed items the Judiciary Report wrote about her intent to pursue a singing and acting career. She stated in the interview with Winfrey that she seeks to carry on her mother's legacy. Just so long as she does not put too much pressure on herself or tries to become her mother, which is what some in the industry expect of her. God made everyone unique. Be your own person, not who they will try to make you into - Whitney Houston part 2.
Another clip has been released from Oprah Winfrey's forthcoming interview with the family of the late singer Whitney Houston. The interviewer asked Houston's manager and sister-in-law, Pat Houston, if she feared the singer would die too soon.
Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown
Pat Houston indicates Houston had turned the corner, but she was "looking for love in all the wrong places." Was this a reference to the second badboy in her life, after ex-husband, Bobby Brown. Yes, I mean rapper Ray J, as previously stated, who according to my sources, had broken Houston's heart with his playboy ways.
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is preparing to air an interview with the family of the late Whitney Houston, who died last month in California, under tragic circumstances. Houston previously spoke with Winfrey about her drug problems in 2009. However, questions linger about the insobriety of Houston and her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, as both have been the subject of compromising pictures regarding drug paraphernalia.
Whitney Houston
Will Winfrey ask Bobbi Kristina Brown the difficult questions, considering she is a young woman of 18, who is grieving the death of her beloved mother. If she asks her anything too probing or embarrassing and the wrong way, it could backfire.
Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown
However, as they have consented to an interview, this would be a chance for them to clear the air. Let's be honest, there are things regarding the Houston/Brown family the public has questions about, especially after the flood of stories that accompanied the singer's mysterious death and drama filled funeral, thanks to ex-husband Bobby Brown storming out. Among them are:
Was Houston still on drugs, if not when did she quit?
Is Bobbi Kristina Brown still on drugs, if not when did she quit?
Is Bobby Brown still on drugs, if not when did she quit?
Does the family really believe Houston was murdered as recent reports allegedly from the coroner's office claim?
Is Cissy Houston still angry with Brown regarding his destructive habits that wreaked havoc on her award winning daughter and does she blame him for her child's death?
Was it true that Houston was buried with $500,000 in jewelry?
Can the estate afford to guard Houston's body indefinitely with the $500,000 in jewelry, rather than moving her to a private, sealed mausoleum, where all the crypts are better monitored?
Are Houston's former assistant's recent allegations true about her being lovelorn and depressed over their lesbian relationship, because the singer seemed oblivious to it?
Was Houston broke at the time of her death, after suffering tell-tale foreclosures in Georgia and New Jersey?
What exactly was said to Bobby Brown at Houston's funeral regarding moving from where he sat that caused him to storm out of the funeral and does he regret it?
Are Bobbi Kristina Brown and her dad on bad terms as publications indicate?
Is Bobbi Kristina Brown still going to pursue and acting and singing career?
Was Houston's adopted son really ordered to leave the family's home in Atlanta, Georgia?
Was rapper Ray-J with Houston the day she died and did his womanizing in the week leading up to her death send her into a greater depression?
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey has released a snippet of her interview with the late Whitney Houston's family, namely her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, brother Gary Houston and sister-in-law and former manager Pat Houston. You can see by their expressions, they are shaken by what happened. People sometimes think the famous are invincible, but no human is indestructible.
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey has announced she is scheduled to interview Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of the late singer, Whitney Houston, who died last month in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Since Houston's passing, there has been an enormous amount of speculation in the press and incendiary stories about the family, much of which had to have deeply hurt them. Some of the press stories are true, but some are outright lies.
Bobby Brown after Houston's funeral
Houston's ex-husband, Bobby Brown, created controversy of his own after her death, angrily walking out on the singer's funeral before it even started. 18-year-old Bobbi Kristina Brown was also hospitalized twice in hours proceeding her mother's tragic death.
Bobbi Kristina Brown months prior to her mom's funeral
With the family's long history of substance abuse and what has been written about it, there is much they most likely want to expound on in the interview. Considering how the younger Brown broke down in the hours after her mother's death, the interview is going to be quite sad.
Bobbi Kristina Brown months prior to her mom's funeral
Oprah Winfrey quit the major networks to focus on her own channel called OWN, but it has been struggling, due to very poor ratings. Many are stating Winfrey is hoping the aforementioned interview will be a ratings coup, but I doubt it will be enough to revive the network on a long term basis.
Bobbi Kristina Brown and Whitney Houston days before her death
Two days ago, I watched Oprah Winfrey's 2009 interview with the late singer, Whitney Houston, for the first time and was saddened by how badly she was being treated in her marriage to singer Bobby Brown, who hit and spit on her. In the interview, Houston also stated she began using "rock cocaine" (crack cocaine) right after she got married Bobby Brown, in what was clearly a physically and emotionally abusive relationship.
Bobbi Kristina Brown after her mom's death (Photo Credit: INF and TMZ)
The two would get high together, using his preference of crack cocaine and marijuana, rolled into a spliff (joint). She further stated, in the midst of the escalated substance abuse that occurred with her marriage, when things had become really bad in her relationship with Brown, her dad, John Houston, died. Houston said she used drugs even more at that juncture.
Whitney Houston
Now that she has passed, here's hoping her daughter will not make the same mistake and turn to more frequent and aggressive forms of drug abuse to forget the pain and grief, as she could end up overdosing and dying, which is not what her mother would want for her. Both Bobbi and Bobby are in danger of losing their lives to alcohol and drug abuse. They need to face this reality head on and get sober or it's over.
