Oprah leaving Chicago for LA

Oprah Winfrey and the Discovery Network are preparing a press release announcing the move of her talk show from Chicago to Los Angeles when her current contract ends. Work in LA for the daytime talk show on the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) should begin in 2011. The show will no longer be shown on local network stations.

Winfrey already owns a home in Montecito, CA near Santa Barbara, along with other real estate holdings around the country (including the Chicago studios). It appears with her own cable network, the advancement of other projects in the pipeline (Precious), her alliance with Tyler Perry, then include her new LA studio plans may forecast more film industry deals in the future.

Cheronda, Cheronda, Cheronda...

Meet Cheronda Guyton. She worked for Wells Fargo as a senior vice president responsible for managing the bank's foreclosed properties. Well, it seems one of Bernie Madoff's devastated victims signed their Malibu home over to Wells Fargo to satisfy a debt. Good ole' Cheronda decides to cop a squat in the property, give lavish parties and keep them going by not putting the desirable beachfront home on the market.

Neighbors (Mrs. Kravitz) in the Malibu neighborhood, which counts actor Tom Hanks among its residents, said they saw Guyton’s family staying at the house and that Guyton apparently hosted a party in August at which guests were ferried to the beach house from a yacht offshore.

In a statement yesterday, Wells Fargo said its internal investigation concluded that "a single team member was responsible for violating our company policies. As a result, employment of this individual has been terminated."

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