From: To: "Jeffrey Epstein" Subject: F. Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:36:54 +0000 Importance: Normal Oprah offers debt-ridden Fergie her very own TV show Daily Mail at 10:34 PM on 24th July 2010 Oprah Winfrey, the `queen' of American TV, has offered the cash-strapped Duchess of York her own prime-time chat show. Billionaire Oprah, 56, is launching her own cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network, next January, and last week called the scandal-hit Duchess to offer her a deal. A source close to Sarah Ferguson said last night: 'Oprah made the call this week. They spoke in person and, for Sarah, the offer is a ray of light at the end of a very dark tunnel. 'Oprah has known Sarah for some time and the Duchess went on Oprah's show to explain herself after her most recent scandal. Oprah has always been impressed by Sarah's ability to pick herself up and reinvent herself. `She feels Sarah will be someone viewers of her new channel will be able to relate to on many levels - she's a divorcee, a working mother, someone who has made some very public mistakes and a woman who, like Oprah, constantly battles with her weight.' Fergie last went on Oprah's show in May to issue a grovelling public apology after being caught by a tabloid newspaper asking for £500,000 to provide access to Prince Andrew. The Prince knew nothing of the 'sting' and the Duchess later returned the £27,000 'down payment' she had received. On the show, the Duchess admitted she had been drunk when she was secretly taped accepting the money and told Oprah: 'I was not in the right place. I haven't faced the devil in the face because I was in the gutter at that moment.' She later described her actions as 'idiotic and stupid' yet insisted Prince Andrew and their two daughters Beatrice and Eugenie remained fully supportive of her. The source said: 'Oprah was impressed by Sarah's ability to face up to her errors and to apologise publicly for them. Americans love people who reinvent themselves