Vernon Winfrey, the father of Oprah Winfrey, is writing a book about his daughter, something the TV host and entrepreneur was unaware of until informed by the New York Daily News.
Winfrey moved in with her father in Nashville after becoming pregnant at the age of fourteen. Her baby died soon after it was born. Winfrey credits her father for helping her through the difficult time, and maintains that the two of them still stay in touch. Nevertheless, Winfrey says she was "stunned" to have found out about the book through other people and not her father.
Vernon Winfrey plans to call his book Things Unspoken, which pretty much describes any book. If the things were spoken, then it would be a book on tape, you see.
Meanwhile, infamous biographer Kitty Kelley is also writing a book about Oprah.
Beloved actor and writer Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the original
British offering The Office, will write an episode of the American version starring Steve Carell. The episode
will be co-written by Stephen Merchant. While Gervais and Merchant have each served as an executive producer
on the show, they have not yet written an episode. The news comes from Gervais' spokesman, and there's no
word on what the episode will be about or when it will air just yet.
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