The last we reported on Rosie O’Donnell’s new girlfriend, Michelle Rounds, her dad went on the record to the National Enquirer to say that he didn’t know his daughter was gay and that he found out through the press like everyone else. Roger Rounds told the Enquirer “It totally hit us out of left field. We only found out about Michelle liking girls when all this came out about them a few weeks ago. It’s been hard to take!” As I mentioned at the time, given that Michelle’s parents responded so negatively and were so willing to talk to the press about it, you can understand why their daughter didn’t come out to them personally.

Well I bet Michelle’s family is in for another surprise. Their 40 year-old daughter is engaged to the abrasive TV personality just a year after they first met. Rounds lives and works in New York, and same sex marriage was legalized in the state this June. Rosie made the announcement on her flailing talkshow on OWN.

Rosie O’Donnell has a lot to celebrate.

The TV star, 49, not only launched The Rosie Show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network in October, but now she’s preparing to say “I do” to girlfriend Michelle Rounds.

She broke the news to her audience Monday during a break set aside for commercials during the taping of her show in a Chicago studio. Her rep later confirmed it to PEOPLE.

On Friday, she posted a photo of Rounds on her Instagram page with the word “love.” She also Tweeted a link – this time with the caption “happy – in love” – of her new fiancée the same day.

The duo met earlier this year at a Starbucks. In October, O’Donnell joked that her “gaydar was way off” because she thought Rounds was heterosexual and just 28 years old, when really she is a gay woman and 40.

“It’s fun and very exciting,” O’Donnell recently said about the relationship. “I did not expect it.”

[From People]

It looks like Rosie and Michelle are rushing into things, but maybe it will work out for them and maybe they believe they’ve carefully considered it. Rosie told Howard Stern this fall that she was hoping to marry Michelle and that they had even talked about it at that point. She said “We’re gay women come on. We’ve met the family, we’re getting wedding invitations printed… I think it could be in the cards, it’s legal in New York. We’ve discussed it.” They’re moving forward with those plans. It’s well overdue that they have the right to marry, even if I still doubt that these two will last. Rosie just seems like a hard person to get along with and from an outsider’s perspective it’s been a whirlwind relationship.

Update: here are a bunch of photos from Rosie’s Twitter account. They look really happy together and that’s a gorgeous ring.

The Enquirer has an interview with the father of Rosie O’Donnell’s new girlfriend, NY-based businesswoman Michelle Rounds. Michelle’s dad goes on the record to say that he had no idea his daughter was a lesbian and adds that “it’s been hard to take.” Rosie first went public with Rounds at an event in late September. Rosie later dished about their relationship on the Howard Stern show, saying that she didn’t realize that Rounds was gay when she first met her at a Starbucks holding a cute puppy. She told Howard that she had met Michelle’s parents at that point (that’s at 1:10 into this video), saying “yes” when Howard asked her if she’d met Michelle’s parents and claiming “We’re gay women come on. We’ve met the family, we’re getting wedding invitations printed… I think it could be in the cards, it’s legal in New York. We’ve discussed it.” Only Michelle’s dad says that Rosie was lying, that he’s never met his daughter’s new girlfriend and is still trying to come to terms with the fact that his daughter is gay:

The parents of Rosie O’Donnell’s sexy new lover Michelle Rounds are devastated that their beautiful daughter has hooked up with the outspoken lesbian talk-show host.

What’s more, the ultra-conservative couple from upstate New York say Rosie’s a liar for claiming they’ve met her – and, even worse, they didn’t know their 40-year-old daughter was gay until Rosie publicly proclaimed the two had fallen head over heels in love.

“It totally hit us out of left field,” Michelle’s father Roger Rounds divulged in an exclusive ENQUIRER interview. “We only found out about Michelle liking girls when all this came out about them a few weeks ago. It’s been hard to take!”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, received via e-mail]

The Enquirer sent us that text as a teaser article and promises that in the full interview they’ll reveal “how Michelle’s parents first heard the news,” “Michelle’s parents hopes for her, now shattered, and how they raised her with traditional family values,” and “Michelle’s high school experiences and her dating life up until Rosie.” So this is a case of a women keeping the fact that she’s gay from her parents, and letting them find out by default through the press. The fact that they’re responding this way and are willing to talk about it to the Enquirer pretty much explains why their daughter didn’t break the news to them herself. I’m not a Rosie fan and I generally find her full of crap, but it’s not her fault that her partner wasn’t out to her family. Rosie shouldn’t have fibbed to Howard by claiming she’d met Michelle’s family though. Maybe she meant that she’d met a sister or brother or something. I get the vibe that this relationship won’t last long for Rosie. The last we heard, Rosie was pressuring Michelle to quit her job and move to Chicago to be with her, and was getting Michelle in trouble at work by calling her all day.

The National Enquirer has run quite a few exclusive stories on Rosie O’Donnell, and they broke the news of her split with longterm partner Kelli Carpenter in 2009. It’s not like all of their Rosie stories are undeniably true, but they seem to have an insider source at least. Their latest story claims that Rosie is smothering her new girlfriend, Michelle Rounds, by calling her multiple times during the day while she’s working. Rosie is also reportedly pressuring Michelle to move from New York to live with her in Chicago after just a few month of dating. If this is the case, I don’t see this one lasting too long.

Rosie O’Donnell’s new relationship is already starting to crack because she’s coming on way too strong for her new galpal, sexy businesswoman Michelle Rounds…

Despite dating for just a few months, Rosie is already asking Michelle to drop everything and move to Chicago with her!

“The warp speed at which Rosie has been pursuing Michelle has left her head spinning,” revealed a source. “But Rosie just won’t let us! While the romance is still in the puppy love stage, Rosie is like a giddy teenager and her behavior is verging on obsession.”

She’s been calling and texting Michelle “constantly, just to check in” – even while her girlfriend is at work!

“Michelle has a busy, stressful job as a headhunter for firms seeking information technology professionals,” explained the source. “And to have Rosie pestering her at work isn’t sitting well with her bosses and colleagues, especially when she’s interrupted during important meetings.”

Now she’s asking Michelle to relocate to Chicago, where Rosie recently bought a $2.5 million home. Meantime, the star is getting ready to launch a new gabfest… on Oprah’s OWN network on Oct. 10.

“Michelle is balking at being pushed to commit,” added the source. “She thinks the relationship is far too new for them to be living together, and she’s not ready to give up her friends and family back east.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, October 10, 2011]

You know that old joke about the U-Haul lesbian? “What does a lesbian bring on a second date? A U-Haul.” It’s obnoxious, it’s offensive to some and it’s a stereotype, but it does come to mind in this instance. (And it applies to both sexes and to hetero relationships too of course.) Rosie is 49 and she’s got a busy life and four kids. She sees a potential partner and she doesn’t want to waste time, I get it. Still, people have their own lives and they need to ease into a relationship. Not everyone is ready to jump in head first or give up their career for a new relationship. Michelle is taking the smart course to wait and see, especially when it’s with someone with a history of volatility like Rosie.

The Daily Mail has photos of Rosie’s new $2.5 million home in Chicago, where she wants Michelle to move in with her if this story is accurate. It looks homey and nice.

Back when we covered Rosie O’Donnell’s joint O cover with The Mighty O (because no one can be on Oprah’s magazine without Oprah standing right there looking like she’s calling the shots), I mentioned that the contrast between Rosie and Oprah was noticeable and comical. Rosie was dorky in a pose that looked like she was a child lifting up her skirt (it was a stage curtain) while standing awkwardly in some combat boots. Oprah was behind her looking incredibly glamorous in an evening gown, like she was so much more elegant than Rosie could ever be. Well Oprah was also a lot thinner looking than Rosie, and supposedly that peeved Rosie off since it’s not the case at all in real life. It looks like the Photoshop grunts who work for Oprah are only allowed to thinify Oprah, not the occasional minions she permits to share the cover with her. Rosie wondered why she looked so fat in comparison.

Rosie O’Donnell is furious over the October cover of “O” magazine she shares with Oprah Winfrey – she feels she was used as a prop to make her new TV boss look skinny.

The Emmy winner “believes Oprah resorted to trick photography” to alter the picture so she looks thin, but didn’t use the same manipulation for Rosie, an insider told The Enquirer…

“Rosie is upset because she worked hard to make herself look good and get back into shape for ‘The Rosie Show,’” said the insider. “And this cover just makes her look terrible – especially standing next to Oprah, who is clearly slimmed down through the miracle of computer technology.

“In reality, Oprah has at least 30 pounds on Rosie!”

[Oprahs] O covers had removed her flabby belly, double chin, refined her nose and slimmed down her body to make her appear at least 50 pounds trimmer. They even retouched her feet to make them look like those of a foot model while her real feet look almost deformed with crooked bunion toes!

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, October 3, 2011]

I love how The Enquirer calls out Oprah on her hammer toes! That’s so funny. Well Rosie has a new thin girlfriend, so if she’s worried about looking heavy next to someone she’s about to deal with that on a daily basis. I kind of love it when Oprah gets called on her egotism though. She sees herself as a benevolent deity sent here to rescue us from the daily grind, and it’s clear that type of delusion extends to her personal appearance too.

Oh and check out the image they used for the inside of the magazine. Rosie in a bunch of TVs with Oprah presiding over her.

photo credit: Fame and O Magazine

Rosie O’Donnell is no longer with that single mom to six kids that she dated in the wake of her breakup from her longterm girlfriend, Kelly Carpenter. I remember reading that they had broken up, but Rosie claimed they were back together afterwards. She said in April that “We didn’t really break up. She just has six kids… And I have four. It’s insanity.”

It looks like Rosie has stopped the insanity, because she now has a hot new girlfriend who is presumably childless. Rosie brought her new girlfriend, a corporate headhunter whom she claims to have met at Starbucks, to an event over the weekend. Then she put an announcement about it on People:

Rosie O’Donnell has a new girlfriend – and they met at Starbucks!

O’Donnell, who returns to TV Oct. 10 with a new talk program, The Rosie Show, on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network, introduced her new girlfriend Michelle Rounds Monday night at O’Donnell’s annual Rosie Theater Kids Gala in New York City.

“They met at a Starbucks a few months ago,” a source tells PEOPLE. “They are adorable together and are very, very happy.”

An upbeat O’Donnell, 49, joked onstage at the gala that she had just bought a new red bra “with the underpants that match and everything.”

Rounds is a corporate head hunter for an IT company in N.Y.C. O’Donnell has four children with former partner Kelli Carpenter, whom she married in 2004. They separated three years later.

[From People]

I bet these two met over the Internet, not at Starbucks, but good for Rosie. She’s got a new talkshow with Oprah, she’s no longer a rage-aholic, and she’s got herself a new girlfriend. Rosie’s show premieres on OWN on October 10th, and this news seems timed just right to coincide with that. Rosie may be rich and famous, but I bet she’s a royal pain in the ass to deal with on a daily basis. This chick has her work cut out for her.

Rosie is shown with Fran Drescher, Natasha Lyonne, Gayle King and Cynthia Nixon on Monday at “Rosie’s Building Dreams for Kids Gala.” Credit: WENN.com

Rosie O’Donnell is the co-cover girl on Oprah’s O Magazine this month (because Oprah never lets anyone get the cover unless she standing right next to them as they lick her ass). Rosie is attempting to remake her image after seeming so pissed off at the world when she stood her ground against View co-hostess Elisabeth Hasselbeck, quit that job and then later mildly trashed her then-employer, Barbara Walters. (Who deserved it, but still.) She’s got a new show on the OWN network and Oprah has to present Rosie as reformed and back to her old ’90s koosh-throwing self. I think that ship has sailed, but admittedly I haven’t listened to Rosie on satellite radio lately. Many of you have commented that she’s got a great show despite the dumb sh*t she often says.

So here’s how Rosie explains away her breakup with her longterm girlfriend, and her anger issues. She tends to place blame on external factors instead of taking personal responsibility, but it sounds like she understands that she needs to change her image.

Rosie O’Donnell opens up to Oprah Winfrey in O, The Oprah Magazine about her split with Kelli Carpenter, how she calmed her rage, why she takes to being a mother-of-four, what led her to the OWN network and more in an in-depth Q&A between the talk show legends.

In the interview, O’Donnell opens up about her 2007 split from ex Kelli Carpenter, calling it “humbling” and “humiliating.”

“In the O’Donnell family, no one had ever been divorced,” the Exit To Eden star explained.

O’Donnell told a story about their conflicting lifestyles that ultimately led to their split.

“She wanted to play tennis at the country club, and I don’t do country clubs. I tried,” O’Donnell said. “They made an exception for a gay family, and we joined. It was a big thing: ‘They let in a gay family – whoo!’

“So I show up to play with her, and somebody comes out and says, ‘You can’t play unless you have tennis whites.’”

O’Donnell told Winfrey that receiving estrogen treatments has helped her stop seeing red all the time.

“I had, like, zero estrogen. And since I got some, I’ve been able to function more normally,” O’Donnell said. “I’ve stopped being so angry. You know, I think I had a lot more rage than I was aware of.

“But I’ve gotten back access to my other feelings. I’m not cut off from my emotions anymore.”

O’Donnell held little back in discussing her four children, admitting that she often connects better with the young’uns than she does adults.

“The truth is, I’m a little socially awkward — with adults, I still need Relationship 101. But I was always comfortable around kids and always wanted a family of my own.

“I would die for any of my children, and, more importantly, I would live for any of them.”

O’Donnell returns to the air with the debut of The Rosie Show on OWN next month; Winfrey gave her prize acquisition huge words of praise, saying that “in 25 years of doing my show, only one competitor ever seriously challenged me in the ratings: Rosie O’Donnell.

“From the day Rosie took her place among the crowded field of talk show hosts, I knew she had the ‘It’ thing,” Winfrey said.

O’Donnell returned the praise, admitting she passed on a network deal to hitch her wagon onto Oprah’s brand.

“I was actually on the verge of signing a new deal with NBC, and — this probably sounds kiss-assy, but it’s true — just before I was about to sign, I remember saying to my agent, ‘Doesn’t Oprah have her own channel? Can we call there?’

“If I was going back to entertaining, I wanted to work with you,” O’Donnell said.

[From Radar Online]

I find it very hard to believe that Rosie was on the verge of signing a deal with NBC. She had a live variety show on NBC in the fall of 2008 that was absolutely unfunny, awful, and completely tanked in the ratings. Oprah kind of says it all when she explains that she’s never had competition from any other talk show hostess. Now she’s Rosie’s boss, and I’m sure she’s relishing that.

As for the estrogen stuff causing mood problems, I’ve heard that before. It must be really tough to go through menopause. US Weekly has some more quotes from the interview in which Rosie says that hormone shots changed her life.

There’s a promo clip for Rosie’s new shown on the OWN website. It’s kind of disjointed and annoying.

Oh and the cover is just so fug. Rosie is holding a stage curtain over her front, but it looks like she’s lifting up her dress to reveal fishnets and gold combat boots with her toes pointing inward. It’s awful and they made her all clownish while Oprah got to look glam. Typical.

Chris Brown currently has the number one album on the Billboard Hot 200. He’s not doing as well on the iTunes charts, where his CD is at number 79, but I think it’s safe to assume that his career has recovered despite the fact that he choked, bit, punched and left Rihanna for dead about two years ago and still speaks about it as if he was the victim of some negative event that happened to him. Still, radio hostess Rosie O’Donnell thinks that Brown is “held to a different standard,” and that it has to do with his race. She also said Robin Roberts should question whether she’s responsible for Brown freaking out and throwing a chair through a window after she asked him about his abusive past during an interview on Good Morning America two weeks ago.

Rosie: I can name 25 stars who trash dressing rooms, who trash hotel rooms. I just don’t know why this kid seems to be held to a different standard than anyone else.

Producer: Is there a racist thing here?

Rosie: I totally think there is. I also think that’s why he felt he was safer with Robin Roberts.

Producer: Is it because he’s a rapper? [sic] I’m thinking of Kanye West… Black rappers are not allowed to be angry and then recover from it.

Rosie: I do think that there is a societal paradigm in which you have to be an angel or a thug if you’re a black male… Tupac Shakur there’s a whole series of books written on the fact that he struggled between his image of a poetic angel or a drug dealing thug.

I actually felt bad for Chris Brown during that interview, and I felt mildly angry at Robin Roberts. I wish I had her email… I feel like going ‘can you take a look at this again and see if maybe you find in any way your responsibility in this at all?’

The next day she’s like ‘We invited him to come back, but he said no.’

I would not blame him. Part of me wanted to take a chair and throw it through The View after all that happened.

[From Rosie's show, video below, via Popeater]

First of all, how stupid are Rosie and this producer woman for calling Chris Brown a rapper? He’s an R&B singer and he does pop music. I’ve never heard him rap up to this point, but I googled it and he does have a recent song with Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes where he attempts to rap. Still, that’s not what he’s known for at all. That’s like calling Usher a rapper.

Second, I think it’s safe to assume that Rosie identifies with Chris because she has anger issues too. That’s all I can take away from this. I’m not saying she’s physically abusive, we’ve never heard that about her, but I would bet that she’s flown off the handle in her day.

It ridiculous to say that the pressure is coming down on Chris Brown because he’s black. First of all, the kids’ career isn’t suffering at all and he got to go on Dancing With The Stars, also on ABC, after he trashed their GMA studio. People are still questioning Chris because he keeps acting like a little bitch and refusing to take responsibility for his actions. If he never would have thrown that chair through the window we wouldn’t be talking about him, but the dude did it and he ripped off his shirt and ran around outside like Bruce Banner.

Also, how can Rosie ask Robin Roberts to take responsibility for Chris freaking out and throwing things like a bad toddler? Roberts very gently asked him about what happened with Rihanna, and her questions were approved ahead of time. Roberts wasn’t accusatory at all, (you can watch that interview here) and it was a very typical interview about a high profile incident but somehow Brown couldn’t hack it and he freaked out. How is that Roberts’ fault in any way whatsoever? This just goes to show Rosie’s line of thinking. If someone gets angry, it’s the other persons fault for “provoking” them, and when people think it’s inappropriate when someone freaks out and breaks things they’re somehow biased against that person. It definitely sounds like she identifies with Brown.

Header photo credit: PRPhotos

Page Six reports this morning that Rosie O’Donnell and her girlfriend of over a year, Tracy Kachtick-Anders, have called it quits. They seemed to get together very quickly last January (-ish), and they seemed to have quite a bit in common. Tracy was/is a LGBT activist, a doula, and an adoptive mother, and between Tracy and Rosie, they had ten kids.

Rosie O’Donnell has split with her girlfriend of over a year, Tracy Kachtick- Anders, sources tell Page Six. The comedienne, multimedia star and former TV talk-show host, who has four children, confirmed in January last year that she was dating Tracy, a Texas artist and mother of six.

She made the announcement after they were spotted holding hands in Miami in December 2009, and soon their combined brood of 10 kids became one big family. But sources tell us they recently parted ways, with Tracy living at a separate house with her children, while she and Rosie, who lives in Nyack and on Miami’s Star Island, remain on good terms.

A rep for O’Donnell told us, “Rosie and Tracy never officially lived under one roof. They have lived near one another for quite some time, and their families still socialize and they see each other frequently.”

But a source said, “They have definitely split up, but it is very complicated because their kids are very close. They still spend a lot of time together.” The insider noted that Rosie still has pictures of her and Tracy together on her blog.

Tracy is active in parenting issues. She launched Open Arms Campaign, a nonprofit organization to recruit adoptive families in the LGBT community.

Rosie has four kids with ex-wife Kelli Carpenter, with whom she split in October 2009. After announcing her new relationship, O’DonNell said, “Tracy has six kids, she lives next door . . . It’s a lot! We’re the Gay-dy Bunch! It’s a challenge, but when you fall in love with someone, they come with a whole bunch of things, including children” — adding that she fell for Tracy because of her love for kids.

On her radio show, O’Donnell went on to describe Kachtick-Anders as a “lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely person,” adding, “I love it all. It’s almost too good to be true!”

[From Page Six]

Well… that’s sad. I didn’t know that much about Tracy, but she seemed nice. It sounds like the breakup is complicated, but I bet they’re managing. I know many of you don’t care for Rosie at this point, but I still kind of like her, and I wish… I guess I wish that she wasn’t so crazy in relationships. I think Rosie has a self-destructive streak.

Photos from WENN & Rosie’s website.

Kim Kardashian blames MTV ‘s Teen Mom show for some anectodal evidence that teen pregnancy is on the rise, when it has in fact decreased. There’s another minor celebrity who finds the show worthwhile and even watches it with her teenage daughter. Rosie O’Donnell told US Magazine that she likes the show and thinks it helps educate her 13 year-old about the pitfalls of young motherhood.

“I have to say it’s interesting,” O’Donnell, 48, told Us Sunday at Self Magazine’s Tribute to Women Who Make Women Look Good on Film. “My daughter is 13. I watch it with her,” the star said of Chelsea, whom she adopted with ex partner Kelly Carpenter. “I think the fantasy for adopted children is to have a baby of their own, and then keeping it, which their mother did not do,” she mused.

Added the comic: “The rate of teenage pregnancy is up [sic], so when my daughter saw that [Teen Mom 2] was on the air, I said ‘Let’s watch it.’”

Her review? “At the end of almost every episode the mothers say they wish they used protection or waited, ‘My whole life is over,’ or ‘I can’t live the life of a teenager.’ I think it sends out a positive message.”

Her opinion wasn’t shared by Kardashian, who ripped on the MTV hit in her blog last week. “It seems that shows like Teen Mom are all of a sudden making teen pregnancy seem cool in the eyes of young girls,” the reality star, 30, wrote “But girls, these are not people you should idolize!”

O’Donnell had one note of concern about the show, however. “I do feel sad that all these girls are getting pregnant in an effort to get on a TV show,” she told Us. “That’s a little tragic.”

[From US Weekly]

Teen pregnancy was on the decline 6% from 2008 to 2009, according to the CDC. A study last year found that the birth rate among 15 to 19 year-olds increased 3% from 2005-2006. It looks like there’s a kind of rise and fall in teen pregnancy rates that may be connected with the economy. There was that story that Kim Kardashian got up in arms about involving 90 pregnant teen moms at one school in Memphis. It turned out that a lot of the pregnant teens transfered there for special services they offered. So these shows and stories are sort-of framing the debate and making it sound like teen pregnancy is on the rise when it has in fact since lowered.

I also wonder if these stories about teens getting pregnant just to get on Teen Mom are accurate or if they’re trumped up. Surely there are a few teens who may be encouraged to do it, but I doubt it’s a trend.

The US has the highest teen pregnancy rate among industrialized nations. You might say that Teen Mom is reflecting reality rather than shaping it.

These photos are from Rosie’s Blog. Her kids are adorable, and she has a blended family of 10 kids (!) with partner Tracy.

It was just over a year ago that Rosie O’Donnell allegedly angered the mighty O by calling Oprah’s road trip with her BFF, Gayle, “as gay as it gets.” If that comment pissed off Oprah, she seems to have gotten over it, considering that Rosie has a new talkshow that will air on Oprah’s OWN network starting next year. In a recent red carpet interview with ABC News, Rosie said that she believed Oprah’s most recent assertion that Gayle isn’t her girlfriend and that they don’t have anything going on other than a deep friendship. It’s not like Rosie is going to trash talk her new employer, although that didn’t really stop her where Barbara Walters was concerned.

Rosie O’Donnell spoke about the speculation surrounding Oprah Winfrey and best friend Gayle King, saying that she believed Winfrey’s recent statement to Barbara Walters that she is not a lesbian.

According to ABC News, O’Donnell spoke at the Jingle Ball concert in New York City on Friday. She suggested that the rumors about Winfrey and King stem from a lack of understanding about the nature of close female relationships.

“People don’t really understand or don’t have the privilege of seeing a friendship between two women that is that deep,” said O’Donnell. “I have the same best friend that I’ve had since I was 3. I know the intensity of that relationship and what it feels like — to have someone you can depend on no matter what. So, I get it. And I don’t think she was defending it as much as just answering all the speculation. She didn’t seem defensive to me. If anything, it’s just insulting to her integrity that people would consider that she was lying.”

In an interview that aired on ABC last week, Winfrey responded to a question from Walters about the “dumb rumors” by saying, “I’m not even kind of lesbian.”
O’Donnell will premiere a new talk show on the Oprah Winfrey Network next month.

[From The Advocate via ONTD]

If you watch Rosie talk to the ABC reporter (below) she gets kind of defensive like she’s saying all that out of obligation, but she seems defensive like that most of the time.

I agree with Kaiser that if Oprah was gay she’d tell us about it and make it into a month-long theme about being true to your core self or whatever. When it comes right down to it, the only person that Oprah truly loves is herself.

Check out the logo for the new Oprah Winfrey Network, in brilliant shades of orange green and purple. Isn’t it hideous? The upcoming shows on OWN look somewhat interesting but familiar, like an organizing show, a cooking show with amateur cooks, a medical mystery show that’s like a real-life House, and reality shows featuring Shania Twain and Duchess Fergie. One thing that’s missing is any kind of talk show with Jenny McCarthy, as has been rumored for some time. Lisa Ling is there, though, as is Rosie. We’ll see how Oprah’s ratings are when her network premieres January first.

Rosie is shown on 12/10/10 and 11/11. Oprah is shown in Australian on 12/13 and 12/14. Credit: WENN.com