Oprah Winfrey and her partner, Stedman Graham, are making headlines after they just made a rare public appearance together.
The couple was photographed together this week during a special gathering dedicated to a major milestone for the humanitarian’s famous and iconic talk show. Their appearance comes as Oprah has once again found herself at the center of public speculation about her personal life, including longtime rumors surrounding her relationship with best friend Gayle King, with people continuing to suggest that they’ve been more than friends. Read more about her and her husband’s rare and buzzed-about outing and the latest updates on her and Gayle below.
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Oprah Winfrey & Stedman Graham Make A Rare Appearance In Chicago
Because she's become such a famous household name on her own, there are lots of people in the world who don't know or tend to forget that the Color Purple actress has had a very serious life partner for quite a while.
The talk show host and her partner, a businessman, author, and more, stepped out together in Chicago this week for a reunion of former employees of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which ended its historic 25-season run 14 years ago in 2011. The gathering was held at a restaurant at the city's famous Navy Pier and came as former staffers from her talk show celebrated its legacy days ahead of its 40th anniversary. Oprah and Stedman posed for photos with some of her former colleagues, marking a particularly rare and notable public appearance for the longtime couple.
The accomplished pair have been together since 1986, the same year her talk show debuted. Although they became engaged in the early 1990s, they ultimately decided against getting married, remaining partners ever since. Over the years, they've generally kept their relationship out of the spotlight, making their joint appearances pretty uncommon. Before their recent outing with the show's former staffers, they reportedly had not been photographed together publicly since 2019.
Oprah & Gayle King Continue To Face Romance Rumors
Because they've kept a low profile as a couple, the 72-year-old and her partner have led fans and other members of the public to begin speculating about their personal lives behind the scenes, especially Oprah's.
With her romantic relationship being very private, people have speculated about arguably her most public relationship, which is her extremely close friendship with journalist and fellow media personality Gayle King. The two women have faced decades of rumors and speculation about their friendship, which sparked in the 1970s. Since then, Gayle's become one of the most important people in Oprah's inner circle, with them occasionally working together, vacationing together, attending major public events, and more.
Due to their closeness, since they became two extremely famous figures, the pair have faced decades of rumors that they're romantically involved with each other, despite both of them maintaining that their relationship is a friendship. The CBS reporter recently opened up about the rumors during an appearance on Call Her Daddy, stating, "It used to really bother me."
"I was recently divorced, and the National Enquirer did a story about [how] that's the reason for the divorce, because they're secretly gay," she recalled. "Number one, if we were gay, we would tell you, because believe me, there's nothing wrong with it. It's just, I prefer a man. I prefer a man... It's hard enough for me to get a date on a Saturday night, and now people think I'm a lesbian; you've gotta say something."
