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Sherri Shepherd Says She & Barbara Walters Talked About SEX
From The View to her ain synonymous talk show, Sherri Shepherd is nary alien to daytime TV.
But that doesn't mean she won't instrumentality a portion of proposal oregon 2 from her chap daytime tv icons, particularly 1 of the genre's astir celebrated hosts of each time: Oprah Winfrey.
"When I speech to her, I consciousness similar Oprah does not discarded conversation," Sherri exclusively told E! News' Carolina Bermudez. "And I consciousness similar Oprah volition springiness you immoderate nuggets, and she's not gonna say, 'These are nuggets,' but it's up to you to instrumentality it arsenic such. So, definitely, erstwhile I speech to her, she ever has thing for me."
Oprah became a daytime TV icon with her syndicated speech amusement The Oprah Winfrey Show, which ran for 25 seasons from 1986 to 2011. And portion Sherri—who took implicit The Wendy Williams Show's erstwhile time slot successful September 2022—doesn't chat with the A Wrinkle successful Time prima often, she is ever delighted by what Oprah has to say.
"Oprah volition substance maine and say, 'I was watching this,' and 'This was precise funny,' or, 'This is truly good,' or, 'Your ratings are great,'" she continued. "She volition springiness maine encouragement, truthful it's truly surreal to cognize Oprah's keeping way of the show, and I telephone her erstwhile I request advice. If I'm not definite of something."
Oprah isn't the lone almighty pistillate who's made an interaction connected the prima implicit the years, arsenic she shared the surface with legendary writer Barbara Walters for respective years connected The View.
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"I connected with Barbara's consciousness of humor," Sherri said of the precocious quality anchor, who passed distant successful December 2022. "I deliberation that not capable radical truly got to spot what a bawdy sense of wit Barbara had."
And portion Barbara would amusement up for her co-star astatine her latest TV and movie premieres, Sherri joked that her enactment came successful tiny (but hilarious) doses.
"She would enactment my movies, but she would leave, close successful the mediate of it, and announce, 'I'm leaving,'" she explained, adding, "Or adjacent my sitcom, she came, and we weren't adjacent done the archetypal country and she's like, 'I'm leaving,' like, 'I've supported you enough.'"
Catch much of E! News' exclusive interrogation with Sherri connected Jan. 24. Tune successful to E! News contiguous astatine 11:30 p.m. connected E! for today's biggest amusement stories.
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