Although outdated, “Talk To The Hand!” is still a pretty effective way of brushing off someone you’d rather have a root canal than converse with — and it’s the exact method Oprah Winfrey’s using to shake off the paternity fallout from Kitty Kelley’s buzzed-about tell-all, Oprah: A Biography. The chatshow queen wants nothing to do with an ailing Navy vet who now claims to be her biological father.
Last week, The National Enquirer published 85-year-old North Robinson’s claims that he is the talk show host’s long lost father. He is from Kosciusko, Mississippi, the sleepy rural town that Winfrey ditched at age six. Robinson, who lives in a Veterans Affairs Hospital Down South, claims he has no interest the billionaire’s vast fortune and wants only to meet his alleged daughter before he dies.
But Oprah — who was raised by her mother Vernita and her presumed father Vernon, has no interest in meeting Robinson or finding out if his claims are true.
“I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!” she furiously told journalists outside her New York City hotel Tuesday. “I’ve never heard of him. I know who is claiming to be my real father.”
When asked what Robinson could possibly gain by lying about her lineage, O barked, “Get out of my face!” before pushing a New York Post reporter aside to jump into an SUV and jet out to lunch.