Oprah on OWN: Wouldn't do it now

Oprah on OWN: Wouldn't do it now

Hindsight is a cruel thing, as Oprah has learned. The Queen of Daytime TV on Monday admitted her decision to found her own TV network may not have been the best one to make.

"The idea of creating a network was something that I wanted to do. Had I known that it was this difficult, I might have done something else," The Big O said on CBS This Morning, cohosted by her old pal and former OWN star Gayle King.

"I didn't think it was going to be easy, but ... if I knew then what I know now, I might have made different choices. If I were writing a book about it, I could call the book 101 Mistakes."

Surely she's not going to quit TV?

"I'm a very driven person," O says of her determination to continue contributing to the box. "Also, I believe that I am here to fulfill a calling. That because I am a female who is African American, who has been so blessed in the world, there's never going to be a time to quit. I will die in the midst of doing what I love to do, and that is, using my voice and using my life to try to inspire other people to live the best of theirs."

Alec Baldwin: A bachelor no more?!

He's been single - footloose 'n fancy-free - since his nine-year marriage to fellow thesp Kim Basinger died in 2002. But Alec Baldwin's George Clooney-ian days are about to end: The 30 Rock star has become engaged to his Mallorca-born yoga instructor Hilaria Thoma, who runs New York's Yoga Vida studio and has a degree in art history from NYU. Hilaria isn't exactly half Alec's age, but close: At 28, she's 26 years his junior.

Love? Love is a battlefield

Maroon 5 alterna rocker turned The Voice star Adam Levine, 33, and his too-hot-for-alterna-rocker-dudes gal, Russian-born Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna have called it quits, Anne, 26, confirmed on Monday. "Adam and I have decided to separate in an amicable and supportive manner," she said. "We still love and respect each other as friends."

The two-year relationship, "is the longest, most functional relationship I've ever been in," Levine told Howard Stern in February. "I don't want to screw it up." Oops.

True love for Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh

Ginnifer Goodwin, 33, and Josh Dallas, 30, who play dreamy, lovey-dovey fairy-tale couple Snow White and Prince Charming on ABC's Once Upon a Time, have taken their on-screen romance to the real world's mean streets, multiple anonymous sources tell Us Weekly. "She and Josh have a blast together and had instant chemistry," one source tells the mag.

Jerry Lee Lewis takes seventh bride

Jerry Lee Lewis isn't done teaching the rest of us the real meaning of marriage. CNN has revealed that the 76-year-old rock pioneer has wed for the seventh time, marrying his 62-year-old caregiver, Judith Brown, March 9 in Natchez, Miss. Brown is the former wife of Lewis' second cousin, Rusty Brown. Rusty, you may remember, is the brother of Lewis' third wife - and his cousin once removed - Myra Gale Brown, who was 13 when the then-23-year-old icon wed her in 1957. Mazel tov!

Being Ashton Kutcher, actor man

It's good to be Ashton Kutcher: Demi Moore's estranged husband is one step closer to becoming her ex-husband. TMZ reports Ashton has purchased the "multimillion-dollar" Hollywood Hills house he has been renting since splitting with his wife. Demi has filed papers disclaiming ownership rights to the property, which means the two are keeping their finances totally divorced from each other, as it were.

Ashton's career also is healthy: Two and a Half Men cocreator Lee Aronsohn tells the Hollywood Reporter that Ashton is raring to return to the sitcom he took over from Charlie Sheen - as soon as CBS cuts him a nice, big, fat check.

And Variety says Ashton has signed to play computer god Steve Jobs in an indie biopic to be directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote).

Today in EntBiz News

The Jay-Z and Damon Dash-founded fashion label Rocawear, which has annual sales of $700 mil, will unveil a TV ad this week featuring Jay-Z Himself and In Person. Titled "Marcy to Barclays," the 30-second spot is a veritable epic, says the news release. It "is a retrospective of Jay-Z's ascent to cultural icon status and an account of Rocawear's evolution into the global lifestyle brand it is today."

Us Weekly says Dancing With the Stars competitor Jaleel "Urkel" White, 35, "flipped out" and initiated a shouting match Friday during a rehearsal when his pro partner, Kym Johnson, said "ouch" when he trod on her foot. Why can't we all get along?

Adam Sandler set a new Razzies record Sunday for his stinker Jack and Jill. The film was nominated for 12 Razzies, given to the year's worst films, and won 10.

Jon Stewart and 125 Daily Show staffers will camp out at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., from Sept. 4 through 7. They'll roast marshmallows, and, we imagine, file a few reports.

Octomom receives death threats

Nadya "Octomom" Suleman's stock has plummeted since she left reality TV. The unemployed mother of 14, who recently made headlines for posing nude in a Euro-trash mag for $10,000, has received death threats after it was revealed she is going on welfare, courtesy of the State of California, TMZ reports. "Die ," reads a Facebook message. "I'm not working for your kids, you're the one that wanted them." Octomom, who will receive $2,000 a month (usable only for food), tells TMZ she signed up for aid only because she is "becoming totally destitute."

A chance to play Whitney? Far out!

Is Rihanna, 24, really in the running to play Whitney Houston in a biopic?

"I didn't get that call yet," the Bahamian singer said Monday at a press confab in Yokosuka, Japan. If she did get the call? "That would be something that I would have to give my entire life to do," R said, "because I would want to really pull it off. That's a huge, huge role and whoever does it has to do a good job."

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