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| tatgirl |
Oprah: A brand new car -- for everybody!
Host gives cars to everyone in audience
Monday, September 13, 2004 Posted: 5:33 PM EDT (2133 GMT)
Oprah Winfrey, center, picked her audience Monday based on their need for a new car.
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car.
"We're calling this our wildest dream season, because this year on the Oprah show, no dream is too wild, no surprise too impossible to pull off," Winfrey said on the show that aired Monday.
Winfrey said the audience members were chosen because their friends or family had written about their need for a new car. One woman's young son said she drove a car that "looks like she got into a gunfight"; another couple had almost 400,000 miles on their two vehicles.
Making sure the audience was kept in suspense, Winfrey opened the show by calling 11 people onto the stage. She gave each of them a car -- a Pontiac G6.
She then had gift boxes distributed to the rest of the audience and said one of the boxes contained keys to a 12th car. But when everyone opened the boxes, each had a set of keys.
"Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!" Winfrey yelled as she jumped up and down on the stage.
The audience screamed, cried and hugged each other -- then followed Winfrey out to the parking lot of her Harpo Studios to see their Pontiacs, all decorated with giant red bows.
The cars, which retail for $28,000, were donated by Pontiac.
"A little idea grew into a big idea," Mary Henige of Pontiac told The Associated Press.
She added that Pontiac will pay for the taxes and the customizing of the cars.
In other segments on the show, taped Thursday, Winfrey surprised a 20-year-old girl who had spent years in foster care and homeless shelters with a four-year college scholarship, a makeover and $10,000 in clothes. And a family with eight foster children who were going to be kicked out of their house were given $130,000 to buy and repair the home.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show," which debuted in 1986, is syndicated to 212 domestic markets and 109 countries.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/...e.ap/index.html |
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| trancechaos |
| someone tell oprah to suck my dick, i in hate that bitch. |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancechaos
someone tell oprah to suck my dick, i in hate that bitch. |
i would much rather have a nice new car actually... |
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| DeE420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancechaos
someone tell oprah to suck my dick, i in hate that bitch. |
why dont you ask the family with 8 foster children to do that. :rolleyes: |
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| Vivid Boy |
| i agree id let oprah suck my dick too..just out of pleasure not because i hate her |
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| starsearcher |
| That's awesome....and the new G6...that car looks pretty cool :p |
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| BrownTA4Life |
| quote: | Originally posted by tatgirl
Oprah: A brand new car -- for everybody!
Host gives cars to everyone in audience
Monday, September 13, 2004 Posted: 5:33 PM EDT (2133 GMT)
Oprah Winfrey, center, picked her audience Monday based on their need for a new car.
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car.
"We're calling this our wildest dream season, because this year on the Oprah show, no dream is too wild, no surprise too impossible to pull off," Winfrey said on the show that aired Monday.
Winfrey said the audience members were chosen because their friends or family had written about their need for a new car. One woman's young son said she drove a car that "looks like she got into a gunfight"; another couple had almost 400,000 miles on their two vehicles.
Making sure the audience was kept in suspense, Winfrey opened the show by calling 11 people onto the stage. She gave each of them a car -- a Pontiac G6.
She then had gift boxes distributed to the rest of the audience and said one of the boxes contained keys to a 12th car. But when everyone opened the boxes, each had a set of keys.
"Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!" Winfrey yelled as she jumped up and down on the stage.
The audience screamed, cried and hugged each other -- then followed Winfrey out to the parking lot of her Harpo Studios to see their Pontiacs, all decorated with giant red bows.
The cars, which retail for $28,000, were donated by Pontiac.
"A little idea grew into a big idea," Mary Henige of Pontiac told The Associated Press.
She added that Pontiac will pay for the taxes and the customizing of the cars.
In other segments on the show, taped Thursday, Winfrey surprised a 20-year-old girl who had spent years in foster care and homeless shelters with a four-year college scholarship, a makeover and $10,000 in clothes. And a family with eight foster children who were going to be kicked out of their house were given $130,000 to buy and repair the home.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show," which debuted in 1986, is syndicated to 212 domestic markets and 109 countries.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/...e.ap/index.html |
thats ing crazy |
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| oleshka |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
i agree id let oprah suck my dick too..just out of pleasure not because i hate her |
hahahahhaha... gold! |
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| walkindude |
| OPRAH should do show in TO.......I WANNA CAR TOO!!!!:( :( |
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| trancechaos |
| quote: | Originally posted by DeE420
why dont you ask the family with 8 foster children to do that. :rolleyes: |
man that bitch is a in sell out, she dont care about anyone but herself, thats just a stunt to give herself a better name.
oprah really makes me sick, if i saw her it would be on for sure. |
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| starsearcher |
She's probabbly one of the richest women in the world if not the richest
Well obviously she's doing it for herself...why else would she do it? I don't understand why you are so upset though. Do you actually think that people start businesses for any other reasons than making money? I mean sure there are non profit organizations but 99% of them aren't and are in business to make money. So naturally Oprah and Harpo (her production company) are there to make money - and make some other people happy in the process :p |
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| Swamper |
Uh... I guess none of you read the article.
The cars were DONATED.. Oprah didn't pay for them... and the publicity/goodwill that Pontiac & the G6 got from this is worth much more than the cost of giving those vehicles away for free.
Win-Win...straight out of a marketing chapter. |
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