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hy on earth, many will wonder, are their formerly royal highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Sussex going on a talk show? Even – or indeed especially – on a talk show hosted by the friendly Oprah Winfrey, the Queen Empress of chat, and responsible over her long and glittering reign for shows with themes such as “when families break open”; “suburban teen prostitutes”; “my husband is not my child’s father”; and, of course, the classic “diet dreams come true”, the one in 1988 when she came out on stage hauling a little red trolley with 67lbs (30kg) of animal fat loaded on it, representing her recent victorious weight loss, in all fairness a classic daytime TV moment. Come to think of it, the first two, at any rate, might be quite appropriate ones for members of the House of Windsor to reflect on, sad to say.
The answer is easy, says Oprah: “validation”. That, Winfrey herself has shrewdly pointed out, is the one thing that the 35,000 or so people who’ve appeared on her programmes all have in common. Adulterers, child molesters, members of the Ku Klux Klan, presidents, soap stars, the cast of Seinfeld, the lot. She’s hosted everyone from Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga to Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela, from Tina Turner to Liberace, and she and they all know what they’re there for. When Lance Armstrong wanted to confess his cheating, he chose Oprah as his priest.
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