5 Secrets About Oprah Winfrey's Final Show

It's A Three-Parter! The Chicago Tribune reported that the United Center taping will air on May 23 and 24, with Oprah’s actual, real, final episode to be broadcast on May 25. The title of the two-part United Center Show will be called “Surprise, Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular.”

We Think We Know Who The Final Guests Are There have been weeks of speculation about who will be her last guests. Barack and Michelle? Tom Cruise? Jennifer Aniston? But Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett-Smith seem to have won the rumor mill contest. If so, will they be joined by their kids, junior show-biz powerhouses Jayden and Willow?

The NBA Changed A Game Because Of Her The Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat were set to duke it out tonight in the United Center in the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals. But Oprah already booked the center for that night. So the game was played three days ahead of schedule. “We got the email,” commentator Charles Barkley said a few days ago. “Oprah’s got it locked up.”

There Will Be Tweeting (We Hope) At least one Midwestern TV station says its people will be inside the United Center, tweeting and live-blogging during the taping. But during the recent royal wedding, the British government installed tweet-blocking technology in Westminster Abbey. Will the United Center do the same?

Gayle King: The Actual, Final Episode Will Make History King, Oprah’s longtime friend, says the superstar loves the finale of the Mary Tyler Moore show, when the sad WJM crew toddles en masse toward the newsroom door. But King isn’t saying whether that’s what Winfrey will do. “You just have to know,” King told USA Today, “that whatever you do in that last episode will really go down in the history books.”