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Cape Town - "We have never all been in one room together," says Oprah Winfrey about tomorrow's episode (August 9) of The Oprah Winfrey Show on SABC3 at 17:30 in which she has a talk show host reunion that brings her biggest former rivals and talk show legends like Phil Donahue, Ricki Lake, Sally Jesse Raphael, Montel Williams and Geraldo Rivera together.
In America, about 110 people have had their own daytime talk shows; most did not last very long and only a few became household names. In the 1980s and 1990s the talk show genre exploded in America, often with lurid topics and controversial guests in an attempt to compete with game shows and each other.
Go Ricki! Go Ricki!
Ricki Lake, whose Ricki Lake was seen on e.tv, was the youngest talk show host when she started in 1993 in New York. A divorced mother in her 40s of two boys living in Los Angeles, she's currently working on a brand-new talk show that will start in 2012.
On Tuesday viewers will see the tragedy that befell Lake while she lived in Malibu. Winfrey also shows a clip in which she and Lake did a dance routine together on stage in 1988.
"I did my show for 11 years," says Lake. "I would literally pretend to be Oprah. I would hold the mic and think: 'What would Oprah do? What would Oprah say?' Let me just say, we never had a conflict. The people that were on my show were never on Oprah first."
She says she was glad to end her talk show. "I actually was grateful to walk away. 9/11 happened. I watched it first hand in New York. I realised at that moment as I was watching the plane hit the building that I was getting out. I was getting out of New York, I'm getting out of the marriage I was in and I'm getting out of the show. I finished my contract and moved to Los Angeles."
Sally's secret revealed
Sally Jesse Raphael with her iconic red-rimmed glasses who ended her talk show in America eight years ago says it was very difficult when her talk show got cancelled. On Tuesday, viewers will see what she does now. "It was two weeks, great – I don't have to get up! Then it was seven years of 'Why doesn't anyone call me?" She explains to Winfrey the secret as to how her red glasses came about.
Geraldo Rivera, whose new talk show Geraldo at Large, is seen on Fox News (TopTV channel 405), was on the cover of both Newsweek and Playgirl in 1988 when trash talk television ruled the airwaves. "The great thing about my platform on Fox News is that they let me do basically whatever I want."
From male strippers to home births
Phil Donahue's Donahue was seen on M-Net and featured everything from atheist, males strippers and the home birth of a baby to anatomically correct dolls and even boxing with Muhammad Ali. "We had to do things that would make them talk about us," says Donahue.
He says he felt a sense of relief when Donahue ended after 29 years. "You know what, I ran out of ties."
In America, about 110 people have had their own daytime talk shows; most did not last very long and only a few became household names. In the 1980s and 1990s the talk show genre exploded in America, often with lurid topics and controversial guests in an attempt to compete with game shows and each other.
Go Ricki! Go Ricki!
Ricki Lake, whose Ricki Lake was seen on e.tv, was the youngest talk show host when she started in 1993 in New York. A divorced mother in her 40s of two boys living in Los Angeles, she's currently working on a brand-new talk show that will start in 2012.
On Tuesday viewers will see the tragedy that befell Lake while she lived in Malibu. Winfrey also shows a clip in which she and Lake did a dance routine together on stage in 1988.
"I did my show for 11 years," says Lake. "I would literally pretend to be Oprah. I would hold the mic and think: 'What would Oprah do? What would Oprah say?' Let me just say, we never had a conflict. The people that were on my show were never on Oprah first."
She says she was glad to end her talk show. "I actually was grateful to walk away. 9/11 happened. I watched it first hand in New York. I realised at that moment as I was watching the plane hit the building that I was getting out. I was getting out of New York, I'm getting out of the marriage I was in and I'm getting out of the show. I finished my contract and moved to Los Angeles."
Sally's secret revealed
Sally Jesse Raphael with her iconic red-rimmed glasses who ended her talk show in America eight years ago says it was very difficult when her talk show got cancelled. On Tuesday, viewers will see what she does now. "It was two weeks, great – I don't have to get up! Then it was seven years of 'Why doesn't anyone call me?" She explains to Winfrey the secret as to how her red glasses came about.
Geraldo Rivera, whose new talk show Geraldo at Large, is seen on Fox News (TopTV channel 405), was on the cover of both Newsweek and Playgirl in 1988 when trash talk television ruled the airwaves. "The great thing about my platform on Fox News is that they let me do basically whatever I want."
From male strippers to home births
Phil Donahue's Donahue was seen on M-Net and featured everything from atheist, males strippers and the home birth of a baby to anatomically correct dolls and even boxing with Muhammad Ali. "We had to do things that would make them talk about us," says Donahue.
He says he felt a sense of relief when Donahue ended after 29 years. "You know what, I ran out of ties."
