Oprah biography: not much new
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April 14, 2010, Wednesday
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CELEBRITY biographer Kitty Kelley says talk show host Oprah Winfrey spends so much energy on her career that the world's most powerful woman in media and business has nothing leftover for her personal life.
Kelley's new book, "Oprah: A Biography," hit US bookstores yesterday and already has disappointed some media watchers who hoped it might end years of speculation that Winfrey may be gay and answer questions about her relationships with fiancee Stedman Graham, and her friend, Gayle King, editor of "O, the Oprah Magazine."
But after some 850 interviews, Kelley, who has written tell-alls about the Bush family, Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, said she concluded Winfrey, who has been engaged to Graham since 1992, was just not interested in anyone.
"She is 56 years old, she would almost have to be described as 'asexual' because she has put all of her sexual energies into her work, into her career," Kelley said.
Winfrey refused to be interviewed for Kelley's book and has in the past denied being in a gay relationship with King.
Reaction to "Oprah: A Biography" has been mixed with some critics noting it does not reveal enough new details about Winfrey or her personal life.
The New York Times wrote in regards to Graham and King: "Without new information, (Kelley) resorts to blind gossip-column items that suggest any and all of the above may be gay, unless of course they aren't."
Kelley's new book, "Oprah: A Biography," hit US bookstores yesterday and already has disappointed some media watchers who hoped it might end years of speculation that Winfrey may be gay and answer questions about her relationships with fiancee Stedman Graham, and her friend, Gayle King, editor of "O, the Oprah Magazine."
But after some 850 interviews, Kelley, who has written tell-alls about the Bush family, Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, said she concluded Winfrey, who has been engaged to Graham since 1992, was just not interested in anyone.
"She is 56 years old, she would almost have to be described as 'asexual' because she has put all of her sexual energies into her work, into her career," Kelley said.
Winfrey refused to be interviewed for Kelley's book and has in the past denied being in a gay relationship with King.
Reaction to "Oprah: A Biography" has been mixed with some critics noting it does not reveal enough new details about Winfrey or her personal life.
The New York Times wrote in regards to Graham and King: "Without new information, (Kelley) resorts to blind gossip-column items that suggest any and all of the above may be gay, unless of course they aren't."
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