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Oprah Winfrey dismisses lesbian rumours

Winfrey - "The reason it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think I'm lying."
Winfrey - "The reason it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think I'm lying."

Television presenter Oprah Winfrey has dismissed rumours suggesting that she is in a lesbian relationship.

Speaking about reports linking her romantically to her friend Gayle King, she told Barbara Walters in 'Oprah: The Next Chapter': "I'm not lesbian."

"I'm not even kind of lesbian. And the reason it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think I'm lying."

"That's number one. Number two... why would you want to hide it [if it was true]? That's not the way I run my life."

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