(Reuters) - Fifty came with a televised bash, celebrity
friends and a black-tie dinner, but Oprah Winfrey will have a low-key 60th
birthday at home in California on Wednesday.
The billionaire media entrepreneur will have a "quiet
dinner" in the seaside town of Montecito, 90 miles northwest of Los
Angeles, says a source familiar with her plans.
Winfrey had previously said she would have "the biggest
blowout party I can dream of," but scaled back the affair after the guest
list grew too large, the source said.
Instead, last week she and her friends in West Hollywood
attended a birthday SoulCycle spin class, an indoor stationary cycling exercise
with motivational coaching. Winfrey posted a video online after the class with
a group of people wearing navy blue T-shirts with "Happy Birthday
Oprah" on the front.
A self-made woman, she rose from poverty as an African
American born to a teenage mother in rural Mississippi to become one of the
world's most powerful celebrities, with an estimated net worth of $2.9 billion,
according to Forbes magazine.
She runs her own cable TV channel, the Oprah Winfrey
Network, in partnership with Discovery
Communications Inc.
Winfrey's popular daytime talk show ended in 2011, and her
trademark interviews were a must for public figures looking to remake their
images.
She told CBS television's "This Morning" program
last October: "The 6-0 number, I've always said to people to own it. Even
I, who has said to women all these years, own it, own it, own it, took a pause
for that."
Her 50th birthday party in 2004 on her "Oprah Winfrey
Show" featured actor John Travolta, comedian Jay Leno and singers Tina
Turner and Stevie Wonder, who all surprised her on set. She followed up with a
high-profile luncheon and black-tie dinner.
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