Model-turned-TV chatshow host Tyra Banks dedicated her Daytime Emmy Award to talk show “Queen” Oprah Winfrey - hailing the TV powerhouse as her “inspiration.”

The supermodel-turned-talk show scooped the gong for Outstanding Talking Show in the Informative category, beating off stiff competition from A Place Of Our Own and Winfrey’s protege Dr. Phil.

And when she was presented with her award, Banks was full of praise for the veteran presenter.

She says, “I want to thank Oprah Winfrey for her inspiration. She is the queen. She will always be the queen.”

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Oprah Winfrey has still got it, according to Forbes Magazine, which on Wednesday released its Celebrity 100 List, ranking the most powerful names in Hollywood.

Based on earnings and fame, Winfrey came in at Number 1, earning $275 million before taxes over the last 12 months. She was followed by Tiger Woods at number 2 with $115 million and Angelina Jolie who earned a reported $14 million and enjoyed unrivaled levels of fame.

Rounding out the top 10 was Jolie’s boyfriend Brad Pitt, who last year banked $20 million.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was the year’s top earner, making $300 million with the help of her last installment of the Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

To see who else made the top 10 see below!

1. Oprah Winfrey

2. Tiger Woods

3. Angelina Jolie

4. Beyonce Knowles

5. David Beckham

6. Johnny Depp

7. Jay-Z

8. The Police

9. J.K. Rowling

10. Brad Pitt

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Victoria Beckham is going to attempt to woo TV audiences into supporting her fashion label by appearing on the Oprah Winfrey later this year.

The former Spice Girl has taken up the offer to appear on the talk show in a bid to prove she is not just a soccer star’s wife, reports Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper.

A source tells the publication, “She’s spoken to Oprah’s TV firm Harpo and wants to prove she isn’t just David Beckham’s wife but has a career in fashion.”

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Keith Powell, who plays Toofer on NBC’s much loved comedy 30 Rock, is keeping his fingers crossed that talk show powerhouse Oprah Winfrey will make an appearance next season.

“That’s the rumor,” He told OK! at Bravo’s A-List Awards. “Last I heard, NBC was really, really trying to make it happen. I don’t know if it will happen yet or not.”

But fans of the show aren’t the only ones excited by the prospect of Oprah’s big 30 Rock debut. “There are very few people in the world that if I meet I would hyperventilate over and that would be her,” Keith confessed.

With a slew of famous faces having stopped by in the past, we wondered if Ms. Winfrey would play herself or some kooky character. “She’d have to play herself,” Keith added, “I think we’ve talked about her so much she’d have play herself and then you’d have to watch me loose all bowel movements.”

OK! even had a story line on hand for them — Oprah should play Keith’s love interest. “Ah, please! Write a letter. I’ll tell you who to write the letter to- Tina Fey. You need to write her and give her that story line!”

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Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is turning to veganism for 21 days in a bid to cleanse her body.

Winfrey, 54, will banish meat and diary from her diet for three weeks in the hope of raising the profile of veganism.

She says, “How can you say you’re trying to spiritually evolve without even a thought about what happens to the animal’s whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?”

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Tom Cruise has defended his infamous couch-jumping appearance on The Oprah Winfrey show in a new interview with the US chat-show host.

The Hollywood actor was widely ridiculed in 2005 when he repeatedly jumped on Oprah’s couch and pumped his fist in an exuberant profession of his love for then fiancée Katie Holmes.

But in Friday’s interview, the second part of which will be shown on US TV on Monday, the 45-year-old said he would not go back in time to change his actions.

“That was a moment, and it was real, and I don’t know if I would [do it differently],” he said.

“I really don’t.”

But in the interview, recorded at the Colorado home he shares with Holmes and their two-year-old daughter Suri, he admitted regretting his apparent criticism of the medicated treatment of depression in comments made in the weeks after his original Oprah interview.

“When you look at something, it’s an individual’s right to make a decision on what they’re going to do with their life,” he said.

Cruise also defended his Scientology faith to the chat-show host and insisted it allowed for the “respect [of] the religious beliefs of others”.

And he laughed off rumors his marriage was a publicity stunt and that Suri, two, was not his daughter.

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Tom Cruise’s couch jumping days are over.

The actor, 45, filmed the second-part of his Oprah Winfrey interview in her Chicago studio Thursday, the Associated Press reports.

“He was really calm and collected,” said Diane Andonovski of Toronto, Canada.

During show breaks, Cruise even talked to audience members and seemed “so sweet and so sincere,” Sally Maddy of Duluth, Minn., said. “He’s even cuter in person.”

Cruise was joined by immediate and extended family members, including wife Katie Holmes and their daughter Suri, who just turned 2, audience member Jenny Hume of England said.

He appeared on the show in honor of the 25th anniversary of his break-out film Risky Business. His friends and colleagues — including David and Victoria Beckham, Dustin Hoffman and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett — also appear on the show.

Part one of Winfrey’s interview — taped from his family’s home in Telluride, Colo. — airs this afternoon.

He is expected to open up about whether he thinks he has come under attack unnecessarily and how he has been accepted by his Holmes’ family, as well as his infamous Matt Lauer interview.

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