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Oprah Winfrey to air her last show tomorrow

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Oprah Winfrey will bring her quarter-century reign on US national television to an end tomorrow.

Highly popular American talk-show host Oprah Winfrey was one of the most influential and highly paid women on television. She would air her final Oprah show on Wednesday.A star-studded send-off featuring Beyonce, Madonna, Aretha Franklin, Tom Cruise, Michael Jordan and many others honoured the talk show queens efforts to boost education and fight poverty at a Surprise Oprah A Farewell Spectacular.Winfrey made the initial announcement back in November 2009 on a live The Oprah Winfrey Show programme that the show would end in 2011.Winfrey is wrapping the final season of her syndicated Chicago-based show to devote more energy to her fledgling OWN cable network, which launched in January 2011.OWN is a Los Angeles-based joint venture she formed with Discovery Communications Inc.