After annointing Barack Obama “The One” and helping secure his election, Oprah Winfrey has had enough of Chicago.

According to virtually every Hollywood rumor site, the populist Queen of daytime talk has decided to end her show, and leave the city.  There is no word on what will happen to her Chicago-based company, Harpo Productions, or its employees.  Sources say her last show will air in 2011.

“Why would anybody stay?”  She allegedly told insiders, “It’s freezing here and I own a mansion in Montecito.”

She certainly does.  It’s a modest little thing she picked up for a rumored $55 Million dollars – only 23,000 square feet.

Don’t worry about her, though.  If she starts to feel cramped in her California digs, she can always jet off to her posh Hawaiian plantation.  Located on the island of Mauai, the property includes a 9,700 square foot home situated on 60 acres of land, overlooking the Pacific ocean.
 

If today’s news has you worried that you’ll no longer be able to get your Winfrey fix, or that she won’t have a platform from which she can help us choose our next socialist president, fear not.  Oprah is going to a have a new show, which she describes as “smaller” and “different” on cable. 

It will be filmed in California because, well, it’s cold in Chicago.  Remember?

First the King, now Oprah….will the last prominent liberal leaving Chicago please get the lights?

Thanks.

- Robert Laurie

For her official press release, go here.

For real info, check out Deadline Hollywood.

Finally, Here’s an enlightening clip from the Oprah show, via The Soup: