{"id":536506,"date":"2010-04-21T06:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=101515"},"modified":"2010-04-21T06:33:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:33:34","slug":"oprah-says-%e2%80%9chell-no%e2%80%9d-to-paternity-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/536506","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Says \u201cHell No\u201d To Paternity Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although outdated, &#8220;Talk To The Hand!&#8221; is still a pretty effective way of brushing off someone you&#8217;d rather have a root canal than converse with &#8212; and it&#8217;s the exact method Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s using to shake off the paternity fallout from Kitty Kelley&#8217;s buzzed-about tell-all, <em>Oprah: A Biography<\/em>. The chatshow queen wants nothing to do with an ailing Navy vet who now claims to be her biological father.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Oprah-Refuses-To-Meet-Alleged-Father-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Oprah Refuses To Meet Alleged Father\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-101516\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-101515\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week, <em>The National Enquirer<\/em> published 85-year-old North Robinson&#8217;s claims that he is the talk show host&#8217;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&#8217;s vast fortune and wants only to meet his alleged daughter before he dies.<\/p>\n<p>But Oprah \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!&#8221; <\/em> she furiously told journalists outside her New York City hotel Tuesday. <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never heard of him. I know who is claiming to be my real father.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When asked what Robinson could possibly gain by lying about her lineage, O barked, <em>&#8220;Get out of my face!&#8221;<\/em> before pushing a <em>New York Post<\/em> reporter aside to jump into an SUV and jet out to lunch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5i8RiaYZrua5nyNLU1MzRJxxehw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5i8RiaYZrua5nyNLU1MzRJxxehw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5i8RiaYZrua5nyNLU1MzRJxxehw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5i8RiaYZrua5nyNLU1MzRJxxehw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although outdated, &#8220;Talk To The Hand!&#8221; is still a pretty effective way of brushing off someone you&#8217;d rather have a root canal than converse with &#8212; and it&#8217;s the exact method Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s using to shake off the paternity fallout from Kitty Kelley&#8217;s buzzed-about tell-all, Oprah: A Biography. The chatshow queen wants nothing to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}