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Oprah Winfrey
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tigsmom
Well-Known Member
I love that woman....
Here is the story that was on my homepage:
Oprah Winfrey Gives Cars to Audience
Associated Press/AP Online
CHICAGO - Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car.
"We're calling this our wildest dream season, because this year on the Oprah show, no dream is too wild, no surprise too impossible to pull off," Winfrey said on the show that aired Monday.
Winfrey said the audience members were chosen because their friends or family had written about their need for a new car. One woman's young son said she drove a car that "looks like she got into a gunfight"; another couple had almost 400,000 miles on their two vehicles.
Making sure the audience was kept in suspense, Winfrey opened the show by calling 11 people onto the stage. She gave each of them a car - a Pontiac G6.
She then had gift boxes distributed to the rest of the audience and said one of the boxes contained keys to a 12th car. But when everyone opened the boxes, each had a set of keys.
"Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!" Winfrey yelled as she jumped up and down on the stage.
The audience screamed, cried and hugged each other - then followed Winfrey out to the parking lot of her Harpo Studios to see their Pontiacs, all decorated with giant red bows.
The cars, which retail for $28,000, were donated by Pontiac.
"A little idea grew into a big idea," Mary Henige of Pontiac told The Associated Press.
She added that Pontiac will pay for the taxes and the customizing of the cars.
In other segments on the show, taped Thursday, Winfrey surprised a 20-year-old girl who had spent years in foster care and homeless shelters with a four-year college scholarship, a makeover and $10,000 in clothes. And a family with eight foster children who were going to be kicked out of their house were given $130,000 to buy and repair the home.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show," which debuted in 1986, is syndicated to 212 domestic markets and 109 countries.
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Here is the story that was on my homepage:
Oprah Winfrey Gives Cars to Audience
Associated Press/AP Online
CHICAGO - Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car.
"We're calling this our wildest dream season, because this year on the Oprah show, no dream is too wild, no surprise too impossible to pull off," Winfrey said on the show that aired Monday.
Winfrey said the audience members were chosen because their friends or family had written about their need for a new car. One woman's young son said she drove a car that "looks like she got into a gunfight"; another couple had almost 400,000 miles on their two vehicles.
Making sure the audience was kept in suspense, Winfrey opened the show by calling 11 people onto the stage. She gave each of them a car - a Pontiac G6.
She then had gift boxes distributed to the rest of the audience and said one of the boxes contained keys to a 12th car. But when everyone opened the boxes, each had a set of keys.
"Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!" Winfrey yelled as she jumped up and down on the stage.
The audience screamed, cried and hugged each other - then followed Winfrey out to the parking lot of her Harpo Studios to see their Pontiacs, all decorated with giant red bows.
The cars, which retail for $28,000, were donated by Pontiac.
"A little idea grew into a big idea," Mary Henige of Pontiac told The Associated Press.
She added that Pontiac will pay for the taxes and the customizing of the cars.
In other segments on the show, taped Thursday, Winfrey surprised a 20-year-old girl who had spent years in foster care and homeless shelters with a four-year college scholarship, a makeover and $10,000 in clothes. And a family with eight foster children who were going to be kicked out of their house were given $130,000 to buy and repair the home.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show," which debuted in 1986, is syndicated to 212 domestic markets and 109 countries.
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cherrynegra
Well-Known Member
The good thing is that the audience was made up of deserving people. I guess you had to be nominated by a friend or family member as to why you deserved to get a new car. So that was nice. I mean, I'm all for giving away new cars, but the fact that it went to people who really needed it made it doubly worthy. IMHO.
Not For Sale
Active Member
Ummmm...Still no cure for cancer.
TravisMT81
Well-Known Member
Pontiac donated the cars as it says in the article. I love her show when she gives all kinds of goodies, she does that once a year.
General Grizz
New Member
WDWMagic will move its December meet to Chicago and meet all the folks at HARPO instead. . . :lookaroun
cherrynegra
Well-Known Member
General Grizz said:
LIFETIME MEMBERSHIPS TO ALL DISNEY PARKS!! YOU ALL GET LIFETIME MEMBERSHIPS!!! :sohappy:
General Grizz
New Member
cherrynegra said:
Dude...
LaurenPaige
New Member
Oprah rocks
Not For Sale
Active Member
$8,500,000. That's a lot of money gone to waste. Now I'm not the type of person that says stuff like this but that money could've gone to charity or a good cause. I think I'm gonna form an alliance. I'll get 5 people to attend the same show writing in letters about how much we need a new house and see what she does then.
Besides, who writes to Oprah complaining about their car? I think it was a set up.
Besides, who writes to Oprah complaining about their car? I think it was a set up.