What is the deal with THIS preaccusation denial? When are they going to interview Oprah's longtime "boyfriend"? Leave it to Oprah's publicists to try to slip this one by while everyone is distracted by the middle east missilling. Rosie O'Donnell must be wondering how she missed out on all the fun. Hillary is feeling jilted yet again for the zillionenth time. Do you think they have had surgical work so they can look more alike?
NEW YORK (AP) - Oprah Winfrey and her friend Gayle King want to be clear: they're not gay. In the August issue of O, the Oprah Magazine, the talk-show host explains that some people misunderstand her close friendship with King.
"I understand why people think we're gay," she says. "There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it - how can you be this close without it being sexual?"
In a long article, Winfrey, 52, and King converse about their 30 years of friendship and "four-times-a-day phone calls." King, who hosted "The Gayle King Show" in 1997, is an editor of O, the Oprah Magazine.
The two friends say they would have no problem telling the public if they were in a sexual relationship.
"The truth is, if we were gay, we would tell you, because there's nothing wrong with being gay," says King. Sound like a Seinfeld episode. The two have had the private O joke going for years.
ALL THIS TIME WE THOUGHT THE O WAS FOR OPRAH
WHEN ALL ALONG IT WAS OOOOOOOOOOO GAYLE.....
OOOOOOOOOOO OPRAH
Says Winfrey: "Something about this relationship feels otherworldly to me, like it was designed by a power and a hand greater than my own. Whatever this friendship is, it's been a very fun ride."