Oprah Winfrey cancels gospel singer from show
Oprah Winfrey at an event in Chicago (AP Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast)
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is caving into pressure and will remove gospel singer BeBe Winans from an upcoming episode of her show.
Winans appeared on Oprah’s show last month, and he taped another appearance during Oprah’s karaoke challenge.
Winans was charged with a misdemeanor domestic assault earlier this year, accused of shoving his ex-wife to the ground.
His ex-wife Debra Winans publicly complained that Oprah shouldn’t have allowed BeBe to appear on her show because she took a hard stance against Chris Brown when he was charged with assaulting Rihanna.
Many bloggers (myself included) accused Oprah of having a double standard.
Apparently, Oprah agrees because her spokesman issued a statement saying BeBe will no longer appear on the karaoke challenge episode.
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Although I strongly agree that someone who is an abuser should not receive any societal rewards, I fail to see what the incident has to do with the man’s talent. I believe the show is about the greatest Karaoke singers; not “Abusers and other sinners Karaoke contest”. By the wife criticising Oprah for having him on the show, truely makes the wife look like the abuser. Is her objective to ruin his career and cause a national media storm? I am neither judge nor jury, and unless a person is smack-dab in the middle of the conflict, the rest of us should not try him without a proper court. We, the people, have become too good at convicting people before the “guilty” has even been tried. Shame on us.