Oprah Winfrey

A pair of global icons met in front of a television audience today, as Susan Boyle appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Asked about her world famous makeover, the Britain's Got Talent contestant said doesn't consider her new look too drastic of a change.

"Depends what you mean by a makeover," Boyle said. "I mean, my best friend actually helps me with my makeup. You know, I mean, that's hardly a makeover."

The singer debuted a $50 dye job last month, which she said was meant "just to tidy myself up, like any other female would have done.

Regarding her chances to win Britain's Got Talent, Boyle remained humble.

"Well, I hope I have the chance, but at the same time, there's a lot of other talent in the competition, so I'm willing to take my place with them," she said. "There's a lot of good talent on the show."

We love Boyle, but she's right. The show won't be a mere coronation for her. Hollie Steel and Jamie Pugh will have a lot to say about who comes out on top.

Oprah Winfrey is famous for handing out free gifts, such as a new car, to her studio audience.

But is the talk show goddess keeping a significant secret from her adoring fans?

According to the cover story in this week's National Enquirer, Oprah only has a few years to live. The unreliable* celebrity gossip tabloid claims it brought in "experts" to review Winfrey's medical history.

These anonymous sources say the star's battle with her weight is due to a faulty thyroid that will send her to an "early grave." Reportedly (i.e. not remotely accurately), she's considering surgery to have the thyroid removed.

How pissed will members of Oprah's audience be when she opens a future show with: "Everyone here is getting... a piece of my thyyyyyyyyroid!"

* As with any National Enquirer article, we must state the caveat that the publication was the first to report that John Edwards was having an affair with Rielle Hunter. (We're reminded of that story about a blind squirrel finding a nut...)

Nearly two months after the brutal attack that left her unconscious and him in handcuffs, it's still unclear if Rihanna and Chris Brown have reconciled.

They haven't been seen together in public, nor have they been hanging out since he was seen jet skiing like a tool at Diddy’s Miami mansion last month.

In mid-March, it was rumored that they were sort of broken up again. Or at least taking a break (whatever that means) as his felony arraignment nears.

But another, public reconciliation may be in the works yet. Rumor has it that none other than Oprah is trying to them on her show - at the same time!

Oprah's camp denies this, but sources say she has secretly been talking to Rihanna for weeks. She also reportedly told her not to get back together with him.

Rihanna, however, apparently wants Chris Brown by her side if she appears on Oprah's show. She allegedly wants a public apology as well during the show.

"She's been having second thoughts about being back together," a source says. "Going on Oprah to tell the world how sorry he is will help make up her mind."

If there's any truth to this story, wow, talk about awkward. We just hope that Dr. Phil and Gloria Allred and Octomom find some way to cash in on it as well.

Up-and-coming fashion designer Jason Wu may have gotten major attention after he created Michelle Obama's inaugural ball gown, but it looks like Michael Kors is running a close second with some non-TV-related press thanks to Mrs. O, too.

Not only did Michelle Obama's White House portrait feature a black Kors ensemble, but she sports an eye-scorching blood orange (red?) dress on the April cover of O.

This is celebrity fashion news in and of itself, as the only person to ever grace the cover of O during its nine year history is, well, the Big O herself. We mean Oprah.

Bruce Weber shot the cover of the magazine, upon which Oprah is wearing Rachel Roy and touting this as the first interview Obama allowed in the White House.

Technically, wouldn't that honor belong to the already-released March issue of Vogue? Either way, do you like the dress Michelle wears on the new cover of O?

The wife of U.S. President Barack Obama has become our de facto celebrity style icon in-chief since he took office in January. She recently became the second First Lady to grace the cover of Vogue (after Hillary Rodham Clinton).

Oprah Winfrey is angry. At herself.

The talk show host has gained 40 pounds over the last few months, as she now admits to tipping the scale at approximately two bills. Oprah says she's "fallen off the wagon."

In the January issue of her O Magazine, Winfrey adds:

"I'm embarrassed... I can't believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I'm still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, 'How did I let this happen again?'"

Does Oprah need to lose weight?

Two of the most famous women in the world aren't gettlng along well these days.

Oprah Winfrey told Extra earlier this week that she asked former Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin to appear on her talk show. But the Alaska Governor snubbed Oprah, possibly because she was busy keeping an eye on Russia for us.

"I said I would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin when the election was over...I went and tried to talk to Sarah Palin and instead she talked to Greta [Van Susteren]. She talked to Matt [Lauer]. She talked to Larry [King]," Winfrey said. "But she didn't talk to me."

Oprah even got in a little dig at John McCain's running mate.

"Maybe she'll talk to me now that she has a [multi-million dollar] book deal," she said.

Snaps, yo! We're excited to hear Palin's rambling response.

Whose side are you on in this dispute?

On the first part of an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired today (the second part airs Monday, check local listings!), Tom Cruise let us down.

The occasionally deranged husband of Kate Holmes and probable father of Suri Cruise simply sat on a couch. He didn't jump on it once.

Here's what Cruise had to say on a number of topics:

On his feelings for Holmes: "I can't even articulate it, to be honest. That feeling, that connection. Just who she is and what she means to me."

On waiting three months to publish Suri's photo in Vanity Fair in 2006: "Kate and I didn't feel any need to [rush] it. We said, 'Why? It's our family.' We just were on Suri time."

Check out more Tom Cruise quotes - from the crazy to the, unfortunately, rational - now.

Yes, Tom Cruise is coming back to The Oprah Winfrey Show.

The episode, which will appear in two parts during May, will celebrate Cruise's career since his breakout role 25 years ago in Risky Business.

"Tom will be doing Oprah's show," Cruise's rep, Julie Polkes, confirmed this week. "He is really looking forward to it."

One part will be shot in-studio before a live audience. In the other, Tom Cruise will show Winfrey around his Telluride mountain retreat.

They will then conduct the second portion of the interview at his home.

Great, insane moments in Tom Cruise history.

In 2005, the Scientology ring-leader memorably jumped up and down on Oprah's sofa and proclaimed, "I'm in love!" with then-girlfriend Katie Holmes.

They later married and had a cute baby named Suri Cruise, who was falsely rumored to be fake, Asian and/or the spawn of L. Ron Hubbard.

Snoop Dogg has evolved into a pretty mellow dude, at least for the past 10 years or so since he stopped getting charged with murder and stuff like that.

But you can still rile this rappin' canine up pretty good.

Tha Doggfather recently slammed talk show goddess Oprah Winfrey after she branded him a misogynist. Winfrey named called the rap star a big offender in perpetuating negative images of women through hip-hop.

Snoop's beef? Oprah didn't invite him on her show to defend himself.

Dogg insists he would have welcomed the opportunity to explain himself on the show, as he doesn't believe her accusations were accurate.

"I don't like [Oprah Winfrey] no more. I really was offended, because I kind of like her," Snoop told Contact Music. "Liked her. I'm articulate, very intellectual. She didn't even get a chance to even know me."

Snoop, who recently renewed vows with wife Shante Broadus, insists any misogynistic ways he once had are behind him, as his new work "is for the women" and "(I want to) give the ladies something, because I've been so mean and so rude."

You know who could help these two put their feud behind them? Democratic Illinois Senator Barack Obama. The man is a uniter, not a divider.

Oprah Winfrey deserves a better fate than to be lumped in with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

But sculptor Daniel Edwards - who is responsible for a representation of Britney Spears giving birth and a statue of Paris Hilton - has focused his latest efforts on the talk show queen. He calls it "The Oprah Sarcophagus" and claims he's paying homage to the closest thing America has to a living deity.

We claim he's desperate for attention.