Oprah Winfrey has issued a statement denying the claims of today's Drudge Report that the talk show host had issued a blanket refusal to have the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, as a guest on her popular television programme. The report claims that the decision was based upon Oprah's backing of the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama.

Jessica Seinfeld, the wife of famed comedian/television star Jerry Seinfeld, was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday to promote her new cookbook Deceptively Delicious.

Here it is the 2008 world's most powerful celebrities list put together by none other than Forbes. This impressive top celebrity list that leads Oprah Winfrey is compiled using several measures above and beyond the amount of green these stars are pulling in. Factored in with earnings are media metrics such as Google hits, press, television and radio mentions as well as the number of top consumer magazine covers the stars snag.

Has billionaire Oprah Winfrey’s image started to slip? According to The New York Times, nearly every aspect of Oprah’s empire has had a downturn over the past three years. Make no mistake - the brand is very much alive but the slippage is significant.

ABC is not renewing Oprah Winfrey’s Big Give for a second season this coming fall. The queen of talk shows is not upset by the news and during a conference call a rep for Oprah had this to say:

Tom Cruise returned to the Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday, for the first time since ‘jumping the couch’ in May 2005 to prove his love for Katie Holmes.

On Friday, May 2, Oprah sits down with Tom Cruise in an exclusive one-on-one interview from his home in Telluride, Colorado, to talk about his family, his life and the future. Then, on Monday, May 5, Tom joins Oprah at her studio in Chicago to celebrate his 25 years in films since his breakout role in Risky Business. Plus, friends and colleagues surprise Tom with special taped messages honoring his work in movies.

Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey have gotten together for their first face to face meeting since the ‘couch’ episode nearly three years ago. We all remember the crazed celebrity jumping up and down on Oprah Winfrey's beige sofa - as if it were a trampoline. Oprah traveled to Tom Cruise's Colorado mountain retreat last weekend to tape a segment for an upcoming show.

Couch jumping Tom Cruise is slated to return to "The Oprah Winfrey Show," nearly three years after an appearance that generated endless YouTube parodies and jokes.

This week Suze Orman's latest book Women and Money was featured at Oprah Winfrey's show. Women & Money business book became so popular that some called it a web sensation due to the fact that it is available for free download from Oprah's webiste.

Oprah's Book Club chooses A New Earth and she joins the author Eckhart Tolle to teach a 10-week webcast series of classes on Oprah.com.

Many have probably lost track of Chelsea Clinton, who is 27 years old now. Chelsea is hitting the trail today in Iowa... though with not nearly the glitz of the "Oprah-bama" tour.