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Oprah shared her List of Favorite Things for 2007 on today’s show.

Each of her audience members walked about with at least $7,000 in loot!!!! That’s a huge chunk of change!!!!

Watch the video of Oprah’s audience going bonkers when they find out they’re in her “Favorite Things” show. They didn’t even receive anything yet and the crowd goes WILD.

Check out Oprah’s Favorite Things 2007:

– Samsung Progressive HD Camcorder SC-HMX10C
– UGG Australia Classic Crochet Tall Boot
– TOYWATCH Crystal and Colored Crystal Watch
– Perfect Endings Cupcakes from Williams-Sonoma
– Melamine Bowls, Measuring Cups and Spoons
– The Artisan® Stand Mixer from KitchenAid Home Appliances
– The Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth DVD Set
– Kai Body Butter and Body Buffer
– CLARISONIC Skin Care System
– Claus Porto Soaps from Lafco New York
– The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
– Breville Ikon Panini Press from Williams-Sonoma
– HDTV Refrigerator with Weather and Info Center from LG Electronics Model LSC27991
– Ciao Bella Blood Orange Sorbetto
– Rachel Pally Swing Turtleneck and Sailor Pants
– Scrabble Premier Edition from Hasbro
– United Artists 90th Anniversary Prestige Collection
– Shaklee Get CleanTM Starter Kit
– O’s Guide to Life
– Josh Groban’s Noel CD

Check out all of Oprah’s Favorite Things 2007 in this PDF file here. And for nice pictures and descriptions, check out Oprah.com. Somebody send me Sorbetto and those cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!

Oprah Winfrey has just created an official YouTube channel at YouTube.com/Oprah.

The first video of Oprah’s welcome message is there but it’s completely retarded because embedding is disabled. You can’t create viral video if you can’t share it!

On Tuesday’s show, Oprah will interview YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Also on the show will be 19-year-old YouTube sensation Esmee Denters, the first artist Justin Timberlake signed to his new record label Tennman Records.

UPDATE: Watch a preview of tomorrow’s shows here. And here’s a little tip… Oprah will be doing a complete homepage takeover tomorrow on YouTube.com, so look out for that!

Mommy-to-be Halle Berry shows off her baby bump on Tuesday’s episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

On trying to have a baby with model boyfriend Gabriel Aubry for some time: “I’m sort of superstitious, so I saved all of the negative tests in a drawer. Don’t ask! I don’t know why, but I did. … After about 35 tests, we finally got a positive test.”

On when Halle passed the pregnant test: “While I was trying to get pregnant, we tried really hard, so it was a lot of staying home and just doing what you do. … I was watching a lot of [daytime] television and—don’t judge me for this—Maury Povich. … It was about, ‘You are the father. You’re not the father.’ … So what the women do when they find out he’s not the daddy, they run off the stage, right? They run to the back. I don’t know why, but they run to the back. So when we got the positive test—Gabriel was downstairs in the den—I ran upstairs! I got up there, and I thought, ‘I’ve been watching too much Maury!”

On the fashion shoot for a Versace ad where Halle met Gabriel, who is 10 years her junior: “There were, like, just pheromones flying off the walls.”

On Gabriel having so much integrity: “He does what he says he’s going to do. He’s very honest. I’ve learned to really appreciate honesty, even when you’re saying what I don’t want to hear, because it’s the truth. I think I used to like hearing what I wanted to hear, and not necessarily the truth. He’s always his authentic self, never worried about being judged. He doesn’t care what anybody thinks of who he is. To walk with that kind of confidence, … and with integrity, I know he has ability to love me, love our children, and he will do that.”

On having publicly said she she had no interest in ever walking down the aisle again after her second marriage ended in divorce: “What Gabriel and I have decided is we will just redefine marriage for ourselves. You know, that paper isn’t worth anything to me anymore. … I don’t want to do that again, so we have spent a lot of time talking about how can we redefine this. There’s all kinds of ways to commit to one another that doesn’t have to involve the government. I feel more married in a way than I ever have in two marriages before.”

On Gabriel being her spiritual partner: “We view life the same way. He really understands the spiritual connection is so much more important than the paper and the pomp and the circumstance and the ceremony. And that feels important to us.”

Also on today’s show: Halle’s co-star in Things We Lost in the Fire, Benicio Del Toro. Halle plays Audrey, a mother of two trying to cope with the sudden loss of her husband. Benicio plays Jerry, her dead husband’s oldest friend—a heroin addict she’s always detested for his weakness. Together, the widow and troubled junkie struggle to heal.

Don’t miss today’s Oprah!

Check out Oprah’s response to a guest telling her about her sexual experience on a golf course. You’d think she’d give some reference to a hole-in-one, but nope! Oprah likes it…. like that!

Check out the video below of Oprah talking dirrrrrty –

Justin Timberlake only had good things to say about former girlfriend Britney Spears despite her making headlines for out-of-the-ordinary behavior:

Oprah: What do you think is going on with Britney?

Justin: I don’t know, to be honest with you. I haven’t spoken to her in years. I mean, there’s no ill will—I have nothing but love for her. It’s funny because we dated each other at a time…wow, I haven’t talked about this in a long time. It’s interesting.

Oprah: But you’ve never talked about it to me, so it’s okay.

Justin: Hey, let’s get it in, girl.

Oprah: Let’s get it in.

Justin: We were teenagers, you know?

Oprah: Yes, famous teenagers.

Justin: I think that’s basically the best way to describe what happened to us. I think she’s a great person, and I don’t know her as well as I did …. What I do know about her is she has a huge heart, and she is a great person.

Catch Justin and Idol champ Kelly Clarkson on today’s episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show!

Rosie O’Donnell turned down an opportunity to promote her book “Celebrity Detox” with Oprah, opting instead to be interviewed by Diane Sawyer. (The book slams Barbara Walters, Donald Trump and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.)

Says Rosie’s rep to Page Six, “I’m sure Rosie will do Oprah’s show another time.”

Rosie quickly turned to her blog to express her reasons why she turned down the big invitation from Oprah. Here’s her reasons why, explained on her official blog:

The African-themed July issue of Vanity Fair is being guest edited by U2 frontman Bono — the biggest July issue ever. 20 covers, all shot by Annie Leibovitz reflect Africa and its supporters — Bono, Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Jay-Z, Djimon Hounsou, Chris Rock, Alicia Keys, Warren Buffett, Desmond Tutu, Muhammad Ali, Bill and Melinda Gates, Iman, Don Cheadle, Barack Obama, Madonna, Maya Angelou, Queen Rania of Jordan, President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Here’s a sampling of the celebrities involved:

BRAD PITT Brad Pitt’s activism in New Orleans, Haiti, and Africa has received worldwide attention. His involvement in Africa began in 2004 with visits to Ethiopia and South Africa; in 2005 he helped launch the One Campaign to Make Poverty History. He is also a co-founder of Not on Our Watch, which teamed with the International Rescue Committee to hold premieres of Pitt’s current film, Ocean’s Thirteen, to benefit Darfur. He interviews Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

DJIMON HOUNSOU Once a year, actor Djimon Hounsou visits his family in Benin, where he recently helped rebuild his childhood home. “The goal of the African people is to become self-sufficient,” says Hounsou, who served as a consultant on our portfolio, otherwise “sometimes it does feel like the white man’s burden. Some of the efforts need to be implemented by Africans who do good for the continent. Then people can see that their own people can really make a difference. We are not looking for a handout.”

GEORGE CLOONEY In 2005, George Clooney was going through the Oscar process when he read about the crisis in Darfur: “I wanted to take all the attention I was getting and do something positive with it. [But] you can’t just talk about an issue, you have to understand it fully, you have to be there.” With his father, Nick, Clooney traveled to Chad to film the 2007 documentary A Journey to Darfur. “The more time you spend with the people in the camps, who are holding on by a whisper and still believe that their lives will be better,” he says, “the more you believe that anything is possible.”

OPRAH WINFREY Through her Angel Network, the public charity she founded in 1998, talk-show host and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey has helped fund 28 schools in five African countries as well as personally creating the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, in South Africa, in 2007. She says, “Education is freedom; it’s the only way out. Despite the poverty and despair many of these young African children face every day, they have a fierce determination to get an education. I want to help give them the chance they deserve.”

Check out the full slideshow at Vanity Fair. All 20 covers will be on display in the windows of Barneys New York on Madison Ave through June 19. More Here! »