Yes, it’s the queen of American chat shows, Oprah Winfrey, who in her infinite wisdom blamed her recent Titanic style weight gain on her thyroid. Should that be spelt, gateau?

She’s 55 years old and more than 55lbs over weight, and Winfrey is throwing a birthday party at her Santa Barbara home where she will be cutting into a mammoth sized pink and white birthday cake which stands higher than the Empire State building.

The way we were!

Never one to hide all the warts and problems in her life as she recently demonstrated in an interview regarding the saga of her weight gain, Oprah wore a bright yellow cardigan and a pair of skin tight beige trousers, made to fit Katie Holmes, and displayed her cellulite for all the world to see.

In her revealing interview for her own magazine ’O’, the media mogul moaned about her disappointment at having put on weight, and now tipping the scales at 200 lb. The blobby shaped celebrity confessed ‘I’m mad at myself. I’m embarrassed. I can’t believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I’m still talking about my weight’. Well here’s a thing, everyone else is fed up with it too!

The ‘massive’ star continued, ‘I look at my thinner self and think, “How did I let this happen again?”‘ Probably by stuffing pink and white birthday cake down your throat!

But at least Oprah can console herself that being the biggest isn’t always the worst as she sees herself holding the number one position in Forbes as the top earning African-American celebrity. She topped the list with a $260 million fortune while golfer Tiger Woods landed the second spot with $100 million.