Oprah: A Biography written by Kitty Kelley was released yesterday. Kelley is well known for her controversial unauthorized biographies but may have possibly gotten herself blacklisted with this one as she isn’t getting the support from talk shows out of their respect for Oprah.

For the biography, Kelley visited Oprah’s father Vernon Winfrey at his Nashville barbershop and he offered candid opinions about the talk show host.

“It disappoints me that she has changed so much over the years. She’s become too close to that woman Gayle [King],” Vernon told Kelley of Oprah’s longtime best friend and constant companion. “And she no longer believes in Jesus Christ as her savior. That’s just not how I raised her.”

Check out video of author Kitty Kelley on the Today Show:

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Whitney Houston kicked off the British leg of her tour yesterday after canceling a string of shows due to illness, but some critics were less than impressed with her performance. One writer who reviewed the show said there were great moments including It’s Not Right, But it’s Okay and How Will I Know and he went on to state, “‘I Will Always Love You’ will live long in the memory, and not for the right reasons,” adding that Houston appeared short of breath throughout the show which she blamed on a cold and the air conditioning.

Houston was recently hospitalized in Paris with a respiratory infection and has dismissed the rumor that she has relapsed into drug use.

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Taxes are due tomorrow April 15th but if you haven’t filed just ask the Internal Revenue Service for more time to file your return. Around 10 million filers request extensions each year. The process has been streamlined and is as simple as filing Form 4868 either electronically or by snail mail and you’ve automatically got six more months, until Oct. 15, to file.

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