14 DAY TRIAL // The clock is ticking on the biggest and most popular show on television, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which is scheduled to air the final episode on May 25. With the dates leading to this one packed with only huge stars, the question of who will be on the final one keeps popping up.
Oprah has some of the biggest names invited on the upcoming shows, from areas like showbiz and politics, so she’ll be expected to top all this with the May 25 show, which is her farewell.
The one name that can top all the other names who will sit on Oprah’s couch in the following weeks is that of Oprah herself.
In other words, her surprise guest for the final show could very well be herself, an insider familiar with the production tells PopEater.
“How can one celebrity possibly sum up 25 years of such a groundbreaking show? Who could possibility come on the show and represent everything Oprah has done from celebrity interviews, to human-interest stories to politics to women’s issues to breaking news,” the insider asks.
There is only one answer to this: “only one person could do that and that is Oprah herself,” the spy says.
When you’ve done it all, there’s no other way to say goodbye on a high note than by returning to the basics and choosing an understated farewell to a fabulous run in front of the camera.
“Oprah has spoken before of her love of the final episode of ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ where Mary turned out the lights and left. Is she planning something in that vein? Perhaps, especially since the third and second to last shows (May 23-24) are going to be star-studded affairs in what producers have dubbed ‘Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular’,” the aforementioned e-zine argues.
Instead of trying to go for something bigger that will attempt to best everything else she’s done for so many years, Oprah may be turning the cameras on herself in a bid to show viewers where it all started – and how far they’ve come together.
“Her last show will look back at some of her most important and favorite moments from her show. But at the end of the day the show will end where it started. A woman with a microphone looking into a camera and trying to make the world a better place,” says the same spy.