20 Stars Who Apparently Have Major Beef With Oprah
On the surface, Oprah Winfrey appears to be one of those rare celebrities who’s impossible to dislike. Yet even so, the legendary talk show host has enraged more than her fair share of famous faces over the years. Take these 20 stars, for example – all of whom seem to have had a bone to pick with the woman dubbed the Queen of All Media.
20. Ludacris
“It was like being at someone’s house who doesn’t really want you there.” That’s how Ludacris described his 2005 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote Best Picture Oscar winner Crash. The hip-hop star made that shocking revelation in a 2006 interview with GQ magazine, saying that he’d been unfairly targeted after Winfrey had called him out for his questionable lyrics about women.
Getting Cut
Ludacris also claimed that Winfrey was anything but the perfect host off air. In the same GQ interview, the Dirty South rapper alleged that many of his comebacks had been cut out of the broadcast. He added, “Of course, it’s her show, but we were doing a show on racial discrimination, and she gave me a hard time as a rapper when I came on there as an actor.”
19. Angelina Jolie
Winfrey has unarguably become just as renowned for her humanitarian and philanthropic work as her talk show career. And in the 2000s, she added to her list of many achievements when she opened up a South African boarding school designed to help girls from deprived areas to fulfill their potential. But when Winfrey asked for help from a celebrity to promote the academy, the star in question declined the invitation.
Taking Sides
You see, while Angelina Jolie is no stranger to humanitarianism herself, she reportedly felt as though she couldn’t play a part in Winfrey’s project. The Oscar winner was allegedly upset with the way that the talk show host had appeared to take Jennifer Aniston’s side in the tabloid-baiting love triangle involving Brad Pitt.
