OPINION: With the royal gloves not merely off, but flung to the floor and set on fire, the only person who looks likely to come out well from Oprah's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is Winfrey herself.
CBS has reportedly paid her production company, Harpo, between US$7 million and US$9 million to license the two-hour opus, which has also been licensed to some 65 countries around the world.
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Though big-name bombshell confessionals have become Oprah Winfrey's stock-in-trade over the past three decades, the Sussex "sit-down" is still something of a coup.
Though big-name bombshell confessionals have become Winfrey's stock-in-trade over the past three decades, the Sussex "sit-down" is still something of a coup, given Oprah tried (and failed) to land one with Diana, Princess of Wales, over a private lunch at Kensington Palace in the early 1990s.