OPRAH Winfrey has dropped jaws at the 2024 Golden Globes as she presented the very last award while flaunting her bombshell new figure.
Oprah, who presented the coveted Best Motion Picture-Drama prize, stunned in a purple gown in homage to The Color Purple.
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Finishing out the 81st annual Golden Globes, Oprah showed off her incredibly slim figure and some specs.
The Color Purple producer, 69, donned a beautiful purple Louis Vuitton dress in honor of her movie.
She finished off her dazzling velvet gown with a pair of glasses, which was perfect for reading the big winner: Oppenheimer.
The pin-thin Oprah kept her speech short and sweet.
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When the broadcast returned for the final prize, she simply declared: “And the award goes to… Oppenheimer,” with a drawn-out “Oppenheimer!” in classic Oprah style.
One fan wrote on X: “Oprah keepin the purple consistent with promoting her film The Color Purple tonight! We love to see it!
“Queen O has never looked better. Stunning!”
“Been waiting 40 years to hear Oprah Winfrey shout “Oppenheimerrrrrr!'” a third wrote.
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“Oprah looking 100 in ironically the color purple,” wrote a fourth.
‘600 HOURS TO MAKE’
Speaking with Extra, Oprah said the gown took “600 hours” to make.
“Three women . . . It’s like a work of art,” she told Extra. “I am gonna hate to take it off, I’m gonna need three people to take it off.”
Ophra has worn a ton of purple looks while promoting The Color Purple.
She joked to PEOPLE: “I’m doing for purple what Barbie did for pink!”
‘PRESCRIPTION FOR MANAGING WEIGHT’
In recent months, Oprah has been more candid about her weight-loss journey and wasn’t shy about admitting to a weight-loss drug.
“I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing,” she recently shared, per E! News.
“The fact that there’s a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for.”
Though she didn’t name-drop Ozempic – the Type 2 diabetes medication – she defended the stigma against using it.
“You all know I’ve been on this journey for most of my life,” she added.
“There is a distinction between mindset, which we’re now hearing. The brain tells you a certain thing about how you process food versus the willpower.”
Her admission is a stark contrast to what she told the Daily Mail in December when she called “Weight loss drugs” the “easy way out.”
“I don’t know that there is another public person whose weight struggles have been exploited as much as mine.
“One of the things I carried so much shame for, and even when I first started hearing about the weight loss drugs, at the same time I was going through knee surgery and I felt, ‘I’ve got to do this on my own because if I take the drug, that’s the easy way out.”
ALL THAT GLITTERS…
After a tumultuous few years, the 81st edition of the awards show returned on Sunday night in prime time.
The three-hour affair aired live on CBS starting at 8 p.m. ET from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles and can be streamed on Paramount+.
It was hosted by Jo Koy, a relatively unknown comic who “bombed” his opening monologue.
Koy turned heads with a “sexist” joke about the Barbie movie.
“Barbie was based on a plastic doll with big boobs,” he uttered.
He added the “key moment” is when Barbie goes from perfect beauty to “bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet or what casting directors call a character actor.”
When no one laughed, Koy snapped off-script: “Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago you want a perfect monologue? Shut up.”
“You’re kidding me, right? Slow down. I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”
Koy also got a death stare from Taylor Swift when a joke at her expense also got crickets.
He got the big gig after several celebs, including Chris Rock, Ali Wong, Tiny Fey, and Amy Poehler, reportedly turned it down.
“It’s a thankless job,” one celebrity publicist told CNN. “It’s not worth it. There are a lot of politics. It’s not easy and it’s not fun anymore.”
It’s a new era for the awards show as it entered its first year without the now-dissolved Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
In 2021, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization responsible for handing out for the awards, was boycotted after an investigation found there were no black members among the 85 voters.
After the fallout, the H.F.P.A. was dissolved, and in 2022, the show didn’t air at all.
With the previous network NBC set to air one last NFL game, Sunday’s show was switched to CBS.
Jerrod Carmichael, who hosted the show last year after the scandals, took the HFPA to task in his opening monologue: “I’m here because I’m Black.”
Other presenters included stars such as Michelle Yeoh, America Ferrera, Daniel Kaluuya, Florence Pugh, and Simu Liu.
Fans were in for the return of “Barbenheimer” as Barbie and Oppenheimer are two of the most nominated films this year, with nine and eight nods, respectively.
Some of the biggest wins were surprises, like Ayo Edebiri for The Bear, Emma Stone for Poor Things, and Keirin Culkin for Succession.
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