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Rosie O’Donnell acknowledges that Oprah is not a lesbian

”I thought she was really great on that road trip she did with Gayle when they were going into the camper and Gayle said, ‘Let’s spice up those lesbian rumors,’ I was cracking up. Listen — she’s pretty magnificent in every capacity and no, I don’t think she’s gay.”

Lesbian talk show host Rosie O’Donnell reacting to Oprah Winfrey‘s denial of rumors that she is secretly gay. (ABC News)

In October of 2009, O’Donnell joked with Howard Stern that Oprah and Gayle King‘s trip was “as gay as it gets” and “that’s the couple.”

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