Is Oprah wooing Pippa Middleton for OWN show?

Is Oprah wooing Pippa Middleton for OWN show?

Is Oprah wooing Pippa Middleton for OWN show? Ever since the Royal Wedding, Pippa Middleton has become a fixture in the British and international media, and interest in her is so great that she may even get her own reality show: on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network.

The National Enquirer claims to have it on good authority that Pippa is being courted by at least two major figures in US television, Oprah and Barbara Walters, with the end of having her on her own show.

According to the tab, the two are secretly “duking it out,” each trying to outdo the other and land the hottest royal commodity right now, Pippa.

The fact that she’s young, gorgeous and, as of late, a member of the Royal Family means that she will undoubtedly be a hit with American audiences, the report goes on to say.

As such, cutthroat negotiations are currently taking place, with both talk show hosts doing their best to get Pippa on their side.

“Years ago, when Kate broke up with Prince William briefly, Barbara tried to hire her as a View co-host – but now she thinks Pippa’s so sassy, young and gorgeous, she’d be a fantastic fit. Ratings would be amazing!” an insider claiming to be familiar with the situation says for the tab.

However, adds the spy, whereas Walters is offering Pippa a spot on The View, Oprah is doubling the offer, by telling her she could get her own show on her recently released network.

“She wants Pippa to host her own show for her OWN network,” the insider explains.

“O[prah] knows it would be a great ratings coup because Pippa’s a star on fire – and Americans are so obsessed with the royals!” the spy adds.

Pippa has not decided anything just yet, but reports online suggest that she’s thinking it through because she realizes now is the best time to make a decision about a career.

In fact, Pippa has already understood that she must make the most of her newfound fame – and has even hired a PR firm to help her cope with it.
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Pippa Middleton get the look

Pippa Middleton get the look

Catherine Middleton’s marriage to Prince William has turned her younger sister Pippa into a global superstar. We take a look at the outfits that got helped her on her way and our experts explain how you can steal her style.

The morning after
The day after the wedding, a fresh-faced Pippa emerged from the Goring Hotel looking stylishly casual, championing the high street in a bright blue blazer from Zara. Pippa teamed the jacket with white skinny jeans – allowing the waiting press another glimpse of her famous derriere – and Tory Burch ballet pumps, which at £120 cost almost twice as much as the jacket. Her make-up was subtle and flattering, although the Body Shop’s head make-up artist, Chase Aston, believes she might have overdone the fake tan. “Pippa’s make-up was spot on for the wedding weekend – she looked fresh and glowing, natural and beautiful,” says Chase. “She may have overdone it just a little bit with the fake tan, but what bridesmaid or maid of honour hasn’t?”

Headline hair
Pippa’s wedding day dress turned the new Duchess of Cambridge’s sister into a global superstar, with many predicting her dress, not Catherine’s, will transform wedding dress trends for years to come. Her glossy mane was styled to complement Kate’s, as Fiona Chandler, who styled Pippa’s hair for the big day, explains. “Pippa has fantastic hair to work with,” says hair stylist Fiona, creative director and bridal expert at Richard Ward Hair. “Her hair was styled to echo Kate’s demi-chignon. The front was styled by taking sections and softly twisting and securing at the back. The main focus for this look was her gorgeous Lilly of the Valley accessories.This needed to be pinned carefully so the flowers didn’t move as she walked outside. For me, it was important to remember that Pippa is only 27, so I didn’t want to create a look that was too fussy.”

Cardigan couture
Few of us can carry off a cropped cardigan but Pippa does it with aplomb – in this case opting for a burnt orange creation that perfectly showcases her golden skin. “Pippa Middleton is a classic English beauty and this is reflected in her style,” says Sophia Jolly, Gold Label buyer at TK Maxx. “Her love of casual classics such as blazers, cardigans and jeans teamed with a flash of colour looks fresh and modern for day to day.”

Belt up
Pippa’s always known how to dress her stunning figure, often opting for tailored jackets or dresses which showcase her tiny waist, using wide belts to add to the effect. “Like her sister Kate, Pippa’s look isn’t showy – her style is elegant, simple but amazingly stunning,” says Karine Jackson, former London Hairdresser of the Year and founder of karinejackson.co.uk.

Back to the future
While most of us would struggle to carry off the ‘leg warmers and roller skates’ look, Pippa does so with ease, which is precisely why she’s so popular with the general public – she’s got the kind of figure that would look good in a bin bag, but she’s never taken herself too seriously. Remember those pictures of her wearing a wedding dress made from loo roll? Enough said….

Bag lady
When it comes to accessories, Pippa loves to coordinate, often sporting a handbag in the same colour as her jacket or top. In this picture, taken in early 2007, Pippa teams a smart tailored jacket with a simple handbag in a matching shade. The Edinburgh university graduate has always had somewhat of a handbag fetish, and after she was snapped carrying the Modalu Bristol handbag outside the Goring Hotel, the bag sold out within hours.

Underwhere?
This dress – worn by Pippa in 2008 – is another example of how Pippa’s fabulous figure allows her to wear the kind of dresses that can be hard to carry off if you’ve got a less than perfect figure. She’s also a dab hand when it comes to choosing the right colour, often plumping for pastel shades that perfectly accentuate her year-round tan. Most importantly, Pippa always manages to avoid the horror of a VPL by choosing her underwear carefully. “‘Choosing the right underwear is a key part of Pippa’s look,” says Debby Duckett, buying director at www.bouxavenue.com. “The perfect fitting lingerie can make all the difference to the lines and shape of an outfit. Pippa Middleton’s looks are always seamless with no VPLs.”

Prints charming
Bold prints can be hard to carry off, but Pippa does so with ease, often teaming a bold, printed item of clothing with toned-down, natural make-up. “Much like her sister Kate, Pippa has a signature look of soft smoky eyes and complements this with rosy blush and nude lips,” notes make-up artist Jemma Kidd. “The only difference in their make-up seems to be complexions – Pippa usually has a slightly warmer complexion than Kate who favours the pale English rose look.”

Wild thing
This animal print dress is another great example of how Pippa often lets one key item of clothing do the talking, in this case teaming a loud, zebra-print dress with nude heels while keeping accessories and make-up to a minimum. “Pippa’s choices of wrap and body-skimming dresses in brights and prints for events flatter her slender shape and fabulous legs,” says Sophia at TK Maxx.

Dress for success
The ruffles on this sunshine-yellow dress are perfect for flattering a larger behind, but Pippa certainly doesn’t need any help in this department. The contrasting belt again emphasises her narrow waist, while she’s also scaled back the jewellery and avoided showing too much flesh, in order to let the dress take centre stage.

Her Royal Hotness: How Kate's foxy sister Pippa stole the show (leaving naughty Uncle Gary to languish in the shadows)

By Catherine Ostler


Stylish choice: Pippa Middleton's slinky white cowl-neck dress showed off her slender figure, while the cap sleeves kept it youthful. The back of the dress was studded with tiny silk-covered buttons


The day might have belonged to the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, but the supporting cast were almost as gripping, and none of them more so than the members of what is fast becoming Britain’s most famous and fascinating family.

Middleton-watchers were amply rewarded with a spectacle of nerves, tans, dignity, surprising outfits and sex appeal (yes, that refers to you, Miss Philippa Middleton!).

Indeed, you could even say that the Westminster Abbey Show felt just as much Bucklebury (the Berkshire village where the Middletons live) as it did Buckingham Palace — despite all the trumpeters and foreign dignitaries.

The Duchess of Cambridge's uncle Gary, right, went pretty much unnoticed while her brother, James was given a starring role with the only person to give a reading during the wedding service at Westminster Abbey

Elegant: Pippa, pictured entering Westminster Abbey this morning with the bridesmaids and pageboys, echoed the bride's dress in a design by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen


For that we can thank the lively nature of that close-knit, party-loving Home Counties family.

Even the trees lining the Abbey aisle seemed to be a reminder of the oak-lined avenue that leads through Bucklebury to the Middleton manse. They served like lights on a runway to guide the Middletons to take-off as the family became linked for ever to the British monarchy.

Only Earl Spencer in a front row abbey seat and looking like an overgrown member of the Bullingdon Club could offer advice from personal experience of how bumpy a journey that can sometimes be.

But the Middletons out in force, it has to be said, just make everything look like enormous fun.


For royalists, Disney fans, romantics and young girls, the bride who became a Princess before our very eyes and her smart groom were the only hero and heroine.

But right on their tail in terms of youth, glamour and audience excitement was the new Duchess’s fabulously foxy younger sister Philippa, otherwise known as Pippa.
Certainly, among many a red-blooded male, and on social networking site Twitter, Pippa was, plainly ‘It’.

Within minutes of her arrival, the younger Miss Middleton had nearly crashed the Twitter site as thousands of wedding watchers tweeted in enthusiastic praise of Her Royal Hotness.

The 27-year-old party planner was notably darker than her sister and looking all the more so because, very unusually for a bridesmaid, she was also wearing white.

‘She was mahogany in colour,’ said one guest, ‘but absolutely gorgeous. She looked amazing.’

Her slinky frock, like her sister’s, by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen, was made of ‘heavy, ivory, satin crepe’ and sported the same embroidery and buttons as her sister’s dress, but had youthful cupped sleeves, a surprisingly low cowl-neck — for an abbey — and a resulting suggestion of cleavage.

Many women would have been quite happy to wear Pippa’s dress themselves as a wedding dress. One wit remarked: ‘It would have looked particularly good for a beach ceremony for a wedding somewhere like Ibiza.’

Responsibility: Pippa walked down the aisle with the two youngest bridesmaids Grace van Cutsem (left) and Eliza Lopes (right), both three.
They were followed by Margarita Armstrong-Jones, eight (middle left), Louise Windsor, seven, (middle right), Billy Lowther-Pinkerton, ten, (back left) and Tom Pettifer, eight (back right)

Bridal party: The maid-of-honour held the two youngest bridesmaids' hands as they entered the Abbey

Pippa wore her hair half-up and half-down, clipped with lily-of-the-valley flowers at the back, and she walked into the Abbey beaming, holding the hands of the two smallest bridesmaids, Grace van Cutsem and Eliza Lopes (both aged three), having meticulously straightened her sister’s train.

Her parents had given her a pair of floral diamond earrings as a present, designed, like her sister’s, by Robinson Pelham (whose creative director Zoe Benyon was a wedding guest and who is married to the Middletons’ local MP Richard Benyon).

Pippa executed her duties (holding and passing the bouquet, smoothing the train, shepherding pages and bridesmaids up and down and making sure none of them got left behind) beautifully. But her efficiency wasn’t necessarily the focus.

Many women admired her dress, but an army of male fans were happily distracted by her shapely rear as the procession went up the aisle.

It certainly seemed that Prince Harry was smitten as he walked back down the aisle with her, sharing some piece of jolly mischief.

Though by the time they came out on to the Buckingham Palace balcony he had his grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh to compete with, as the duke indulged in a little light jokey flirting, discovering his sense of humour for the maid-of-honour’s benefit. (And why should the fact that he’s nearly 90 stop him sharing banter with such an adept bridesmaid?)

For many, it became irresistible to indulge in a little what-if speculation about the idea of Harry and Pippa enjoying themselves late into the night on the dance floor under the mirror balls in the Throne Room . . . Chelsy, if she is still interested, had better reveal her hand now.

The other Middleton sibling, brother James, the third acorn on the family crest (is he now sporting a brand new signet ring on his pinkie, emblazoned with it?) had an equally key role, being — unusually — the only lay speaker, and definitely the only one without a bushy grey beard.

The 23-year-old Cake Kit entrepreneur and wannabe Richard Branson also looked as if he’d had a close encounter with a Fake Bake spray gun (though rumours that a company had set up a booth for the family the night before in The Goring Hotel were quickly denied).

He arrived with his mother in a Jaguar and escorted her down the aisle. But his starring moment came when he read the lesson from Romans Chapter 12.

Doting sister: Pippa carries Kate's train as she enters Westminster Abbey with her father, Michael Middleton

Moment in the spotlight: Pippa then proudly carried her newly-married sister's train out of the Abbey after the wedding, before helping her into a waiting horse-drawn carriage


Smartly and slightly flamboyantly dressed in tail coat, pale yellow waistcoat, blue shirt with white collar and a purple tie (with a tie pin sporting that ubiquitous oak motif), he didn’t smile much, but he did get all his words out without a single stumble and seemed to know it all off by heart.

If anything, the Middleton parents looked more nervous than their children. One-time flight dispatcher Michael Middleton (‘What a day for the Yorkshire son of an airline pilot!’ a BBC commentator helpfully announced) has never seemed like a man who relishes attention and looked less than relaxed about dispatching his elder daughter into the Windsor family.

But like any proud father handing over his daughter, he was a touching sight. He was seen reassuring Kate: ‘Are you ready? You look great.’

Caring: Pippa clearly relished her role as maid-of-honour, which involved escorting three of the youngsters - (left to right) Billy, Grace and Margarita - to Buckingham Palace as part of the wedding procession

Ladies -in-waiting: Pippa Middleton and young Margarita give the crowds a wave as they leave the Abbey

Helping hand: Best man Prince Harry supported Pippa in her duties, taking care of his seven-year-old cousin, Lady Louise Windsor in the procession to Buckingham Palace


He clutched her hand tightly at the altar until he passed it to Prince William when he gave her away.

At which point he looked rather relieved to have got the major part of his role out of the way. One hopes someone gave him a glass of something strong post haste at the Palace.

But the greatest relief of all must have been that the family black sheep, Uncle Gary, former cocaine addict and owner of Ibiza palace Le Maison de Bang Bang, was hardly to be seen.

Though seen leaving his mews flat in his £280,000 Rolls-Royce, tattoos fully covered in a pink shirt and slightly odd grey tail coat with grey waistcoat — tan freshly topped up courtesy of The Electric Beach in the days before the wedding — no one spotted him going in to the Abbey as the world was distracted by the fashion parade.

And for the Middleton family brand image, that can only be a good thing.

Uncle Gary was taken to the wedding in a £280,000 Rolls while his tattoos, visible right, were covered







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Loving the limelight, Philippa is the Middleton sister who doesn't know the meaning of self-doubt. Just don't call her Pippa!

By Catherine Ostler


On show: Pippa Middleton steps out of her cab at the engagement party of Holly Branson at The Roof Gardens Club in West London last Friday

The legs are on show, and the characteristic fake tan is visible through the shiny sheer tights.

She wears towering black stilettos, a brief cocktail dress, lots of twinkling diamond jewellery and heavy make-up — pink blusher and black eyeliner all around the eyes, applied with a trowel. A broad grin is the finishing touch.

Pippa Middleton's appearance in front of the photographers who clamoured for her picture as she left the engagement party of Richard Branson's daughter Holly in West London last Friday cleared up one thing at least: the chief maid of honour is certainly relishing her newfound attention.

Of course, if her sister wasn't marrying the second in line to the throne, Pippa would just be another passably attractive arts graduate from a second-tier university. But in Kate's orbit, she can be a star.

In short, the Bucklebury kitten has got the cream.

Weather girls, Hollywood starlets, Oscar nominees and potential prime ministers have looked less comfortable than she posing for the camera on the publicity circuit.

There 'Perfect Pippa' was again yesterday, in the car with her sister Kate, wearing tasteful navy; and then driving her mother Carole around, sporting 'aviator' shades.

She couldn't have looked less bothered by the latest rumour to emerge from the Palace: that aides have been put out by her bright idea of suspending disco mirror balls in Buckingham Palace's Throne Room for the 'post wedding breakfast disco', to lend it a louche nightclub vibe.

Mirror balls might seem neither original nor necessary, given that the gold-and-red Throne Room is one of the most opulent in the Palace, and a few cheap glittery balls will surely lose in a fight with one of the elaborate gold chandeliers.

But 27-year-old Pippa is nothing if not determined, and she will see off such dinosaur views.

She is one of life's organisers. And as recent pictures amply testify, self-doubt is not her speciality.

Kate's maid of honour is, of course, by trade a party planner, working three days a week at Clapham company Table Talk. She has tactfully wheeled in her accommodating boss, JoJo Browner, to help out tomorrow night.

'Perfect Pippa': Kate's sister looks at ease in aviator shades as she drives her mother Carole away from their family home in Bucklebury yesterday


Pippa spends the other two days of the week editing The Party Times, the online magazine that is a spin-off to her parents' company, Party Pieces.

On Monday, Party Times was pushing customers to buy last-minute bunting for British Street Parties, but this was taken down after all-too-familiar accusations of opportunism.

Pippa gave one interview to promote the site. Another was — at Kate's request — cancelled at the last minute.

Both of these roles are an extension of what Pippa most liked doing at Edinburgh University — which was organising shindigs for friends, and shepherding bright young things into after-dinner activities at grand house parties.

She has, apparently, taken two weeks off from her job to help plan the evening party for 300 at the Palace.

As William wants the evening to be 'young and cool' — odd, given that he has never particularly come across as either of those things — it seems to have been decided that part of the Palace should be transformed into a branch of that somewhat decadent London club, Boujis, for the night.


Pippa's close friend, the raffish Old Etonian nightclub owner Charlie Gilkes, is said to be organising the disco.

He runs Maggie's nightclub in the Fulham Road, which is an Eighties-themed tribute club to Margaret Thatcher, with stools styled to look like those symbols of the age — Rubik's cubes. (You get the picture.)

Furniture and accessories are being imported into the Palace for the night, to differentiate Pippa's party from the rest of the day's celebrations (which will, hopefully, be sympathetic to Palace features rather than trying to eclipse them).

Prince Charles might have won the catering battle by insisting on his favourite chef Anton Mosimann (his menu is a state secret, though one hears whispers of crab followed by lamb), but Pippa is said to have dreamed up the bacon butty and ice cream vans that will sit outside.

Great organiser: Pippa at a party for Starlight Children's Foundation at The Saatchi Gallery in London, left and with her brother James, right


(Like Marie Antoinette and her toy farm, there is nothing jolly young Sloanes love more than a bit of faux proletarian fodder. They find it amusing, so much so that we are in real danger of getting Wills and Kate 'rock 'n' Royal' pork scratchings at this rate.)

At the same time, just as Kate has asked that she be known as Catherine, apparently Pippa has asked to be called Philippa, but this may just be Palace malice.

True or not, she does now have her very own coat of arms; after Friday, Pippa will be the only person entitled to use Kate's original 'three-acorn-with-black-runs' job topped by a blue ribbon. (The bow represents the unmarried Middleton female.)

The recent suggestion that she might use her newfound fame and party planning experience to set up her own company 'in conjunction with her parents' seems highly likely.

She wouldn't be the first of her siblings to do so.

The third acorn on that crest, little brother James Middleton, is less visible than his sisters, but the 23-year-old has registered a series of companies in the past two weeks.

By her sister's side: Kate and Pippa leave their home in Berkshire earlier this week


Not content with the Cake Kit Company (it does what it says on the cake tin — you get all the kit to make a themed cake, be it football or a pink castle, for around £16), James has also registered Nice Cakes, Nice Wine and Nice Group London. All of which suggests an appetite for empire-building unhampered by the tiresome necessity of gleaning experience anywhere.

Like James, Pippa could reduce any start-up costs by setting herself up through her parents' company, publicising herself on their website and locating herself in the Party Pieces' HQ in Berkshire.

It is quite natural that, like James — the two of them share a flat in Chelsea that their parents bought in 2002 — Pippa should now want to be an entrepreneur.

Apart from being the children of self-starters, every young toff now thinks it is their destiny to be the next Branson.


Happy times: Kate, Pippa and their mother at her 26th birthday party in 2007


The younger Middletons have reassuringly close examples in their own set, such as Jamie Murray Wells — William's friend and the now very rich founder of Glasses Direct.

Just as you'll have to search very hard for the notorious and once easily available pictures of James Middleton in a frock at a party, neither will you find friends' pictures on Facebook of a perky Pippa wrapped in loo roll at a private party any more.

Her boyfriend, City financier and former England cricketer Alex Loudon, seems not to share his girlfriend's comfort in the limelight, since he's rarely seen by her side.

On Friday, it will be Prince Harry who will accompany Pippa into the signing of the Register and back down the Abbey aisle.

And by that time any fear — misplaced or not — that the socially hungry Middleton clan's behaviour could affect Kate's relationship with William will have lost its potency.

From now on, Pippa will find herself in the happy position of being sought after in the upper echelons of society, and able to do pretty much whatever she likes.

And on current form, we can be sure that the younger Miss Middleton will enjoy that.



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Pippa Middleton's party plans peeve the Palace as courtiers 'shudder' over glitterballs in the throne room

By Rebecca English


We are not amused: Pippa Middleton's plans for a vibrant young party are alarming the courtiers

Kate Middleton's sister and chief bridesmaid Pippa has put Palace noses out of joint with her arrangements for the post-wedding celebration.

The events organiser, who also works for her parents' online party business, has taken a fortnight off work to oversee final details for her sister.

But her enthusiasm for the task has seen her at loggerheads with Buckingham Palace staff over both the catering and what sources say is her determination to introduce a younger atmosphere to the royal couple's evening reception.

In particular, courtiers are said to have shuddered over her suggestion to erect glitter balls in the throne room where a post-wedding breakfast disco is going to be held. In the end, Pippa won the day.

Pippa, 27, Kate's younger but more vivacious sister, works three days a week for leading party planning organisers Table Talk.

The other two days she writes an online magazine on party planning for her parents' website, Party Pieces.

She has been utilising her company connections to help organise every last detail of the party being thrown on Friday evening for 300 of William and Kate's closest friends and has even arranged for her boss at Table Talk, JoJo Browner, to work behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace on the big day.

The source said: 'Pippa has taken two weeks leave from her job at Table Talk spend time with Kate and take full control of organising the wedding reception.

'Before she left she sat down with her boss, JoJo, and went through every last detail with a fine-tooth comb. They have organised everything from the flowers to the napkins and even helped chose the menu.


The Duchess of Cornwall was all smiles yesterday as she emerged from a top London salon with her hair dyed and trimmed. Clearly Camilla was pleased to get rid of her grey roots in time for the wedding

'Originally they wanted to use their own caterer, but then Prince Charles, who is funding the entertainment, stepped in and demanded they use his favourite, Mosimann's.

'It didn't go down well with the caterers Kate and her sister were intent on using, but there was nothing they could do.

'Pippa's choice of turning the throne room into a nightclub set-up also went down like a lead balloon with Palace aides, who tried to have it stopped.

'But William stepped in and insisted that he wanted the evening event to be very different from the formal champagne and canapé reception being thrown by the Queen immediately after the wedding.

'He wants to it be very young and cool, so the old guard caved in and gave their approval.'

According to one well-placed source, Pippa and her sister have plumped for a muted colour scheme with blue-grey napkins and armfuls of creamy-white flowers.

But the entertainment will be 'full on' with vans parked up in the Palace quadrangle serving 'bacon butties' and ice creams.

A Palace source said there was little staff could do as the evening event was down to Kate and the staff at Clarence House.

So buoyed is Pippa by her success that she is apparently planning to start her own party planning business later this year in conjunction with her parents.


source:dailymail