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AFP – Britain’s Duchess of York will give her first interview about a cash-for-access scandal when she appears on Oprah Winfrey’s US television show next week.

AFP – Britain’s Duchess of York will give her first interview about a cash-for-access scandal when she appears on Oprah Winfrey’s US television show next week, it was confirmed Thursday.

Reuters – Britain’s Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, will appear on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show this coming Tuesday to discuss a videotape of her apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband, Prince Andrew.

AP – The Duchess of York is taking her side of the story to the queen of television.

Reuters – Oprah Winfrey’s charity, the Angel Network, is closing down as the popular U.S. television talk show host prepares to end “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2011 after 25 years to set up her own cable TV network.

AP – Speaking to booksellers and librarians Wednesday at a New York trade show where she was promoting her children’s books, the Duchess of York referred obliquely to the influence-peddling scandal that has sparked a firestorm of bad press.

AP – Speaking to booksellers and librarians Wednesday at a New York trade show where she was promoting her children’s books, the Duchess of York referred obliquely to the influence-peddling scandal that has sparked a firestorm of bad press.

AP – The woman known for her impression of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” will win the nation’s top humor prize this year from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

AP – If an alcohol-monitoring bracelet can keep celebrities like Lindsay Lohan from drinking, some parents might wonder, Can I get one for my teen?

Reuters – U.S. television talk show host and media entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey has hired a prominent investor to manage her personal fortune, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

AP – Oprah Winfrey is joining with Alan Ball to produce an HBO film based on the nonfiction best-seller “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

AP – Jasper Johns’ iconic painting of the American flag, in the collection of the late best-selling author Michael Crichton, could set a new auction record for the artist at a sale Tuesday evening at Christie’s.

Reuters – Australian actor Hugh Jackman has been bested by a Manhattan window dresser — at least in an online green auction which raised about $1 million for the environment.

AFP – A 114-year-old French woman who this week became the world’s oldest person lives on a Caribbean island and still enjoys a glass of champagne every now and then, especially on her birthday.

AP – Oprah Winfrey wants America’s drivers to declare their cars “No Phone Zones.”

Reuters – Oprah Winfrey’s cable network, OWN, has announced another show for its lineup, “Inside Rehab,” set within a facility for the treatment of eating disorders.

AP – Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Cher will be among the stars honoring Mike Nichols when he receives the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

Reuters – One has to admire Kitty Kelley’s chutzpah. For decades, she has managed, unauthorized naturally, to take on really big people as her subjects — Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra among them — and this time around is no exception.

AP – Jeff Bridges is still collecting awards for his Oscar-winning turn as a booze-soaked country singer in “Crazy Heart.”

AP – There are a lot of wonderful moments, some intensely personal, in “Sondheim on Sondheim,” the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revelatory revue celebrating Stephen Sondheim’s theatrical career.

AP – Hal Holbrook has performed on stage as Mark Twain far longer than Twain himself did.

Reuters – Beauty and household care group Procter & Gamble, the world’s biggest advertiser, said it has signed a multiyear media deal with OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which is set to debut in January as Winfrey prepares to end her long-running syndicated television talk show.

AP – Just a few miles after passing a towering Marlboro Man ad, a second billboard off the highway promotes cigarettes with a new American face: Kelly Clarkson.

AFP – The spectacular wardrobe of Grace Kelly, the glamorous Hollywood film actress and princess of Monaco, goes on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Saturday.

AP – Nadya Suleman’s attorney says the octuplets’ mother will appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” next week and discuss how she is raising her 14 children.