00:00I found out that your name was originally Orpah?
00:03It was Orpah from the Bible. Ruth, 1st chapter, 14th verse.
00:07Kiki Palmer was stunned to find out the one and only Oprah Winfrey is actually Orpah Winfrey.
00:12On Baby, This Is Kiki Palmer, the talk show legend confirmed that her legal name is in fact spelled O
00:18-R-P-A-H.
00:20However, growing up, she said nobody knew how to spell it and Oprah stuck.
00:24Once they started with Oprah, that's it.
00:25I didn't learn until I was like probably 20 or something that, oh, this isn't really my name.
00:30And is it still on your birth certificate as Orpah?
00:32As Orpah.
00:33Wow.
00:33Winfrey quickly turned the questions on to Palmer and pointed out that she also has a different name on her
00:38birth certificate, Lauren Kiana Palmer.
00:41Oprah's real name isn't news to anyone who watched her show.
00:43It premiered on September 8th, 1986, ran for 25 seasons, and aired its final show on May 25th, 2011.
00:50Fans also know that Winfrey's media empire, Harpo Productions, is simply Oprah, not Orpah, spelled backwards.
00:58Since ending the Oprah Winfrey show, the former daytime diva launched her own TV channel, OWN,
01:04and famously interviewed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2021 in a two-hour CBS special that rocked the world.
01:11Just this week, Oprah joked with Vanity Fair about that bombshell interview.
01:15Were you silent or were you silenced?
01:20Okay.
01:21Okay.
01:22Very nice.
01:22I don't think I've done it since.
01:24I don't know where the hell that came from.
01:27Whoop.
01:27And earlier this year, she made headlines for another podcast appearance, this time by her longtime friend, Gail King,
01:34who revealed on Call Her Daddy that the two BFFs butted heads over rumors that they were secretly dating.
01:40Number one, if we were gay, we would tell you, because believe me, there's nothing wrong with it.
01:45It's just, I prefer a man.
01:47I prefer a man.
01:49So we would tell you.
01:51And then I would say to her, you've got to say something on your show,
01:54because it's hard enough for me to get a date on a Saturday night,
01:57and now people think I'm a lesbian.
01:59You've got to say something.
02:00Back then, Winfrey demanded they leave the speculation alone.
02:04However, King felt differently since she was recently divorced while Winfrey had been in a relationship with Stedman Graham since
02:101986.
02:11Either way, it's proof that after decades in the spotlight, Oprah's name still has everyone talking.
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