Though she wasn’t the first to speculate that Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King are
more than best friends, out lesbian
Rosie O’Donnell told Howard Stern that the Winfrey and her longtime friend are “the emotional equivalent” of a gay couple, even if she doesn’t know if they’re “doing each other.” O’Donnell added: “I don't mean it to be an insult either.” But rumors began flying that Oprah didn’t like it. “Rosie should know better,” a Winfrey associate allegedly told the
Chicago Sun-Times. But there seemed to be no hard feelings when Winfrey announced that O’Donnell would return to the hosting seat on a
new series on Winfrey’s OWN
and is taking over Winfrey’s longtime studio. The boss took to Twitter to set the story straight. “There's no feud between Rosie and me,”
Winfrey tweeted. “I get so sick of people trying to create fights and feuds when women are in business. Don't buy into it.”