Letterman finally gets Oprah to return
Hollywood Desk

LOS ANGELES—Daytime talk queen Oprah Winfrey will appear as a guest on David Letterman’s late-night CBS show next month, sealing a long, gradual thaw in the once-testy relations between two of television’s biggest stars. Winfrey’s visit to the “CBS Late Show with David Letterman” is set for December 1, the same night as the red-carpet premiere of the Broadway musical production of “The Color Purple,” which she is producing.
Letterman has pressed Winfrey to join him on the air since Time magazine quoted her in 2003 vowing never to go on his show again. She had said two guest stints on the old NBC “Late Night with David Letterman” show during the 1980s left her feeling “like the butt of his jokes.” At one point, Letterman even jokingly suggested that he and Winfrey could patch up their differences in a “Super Bowl of Love” officiated by self-help guru Dr. Phil McGraw, who himself took a lot of ribbing from Letterman until becoming one of the most popular “Late Show” guests.
Winfrey finally turned the tables on Letterman in December 2003 by inviting him to appear on her top-rated nationally syndicated daytime show, an offer he acknowledged on his program — “Oprah no longer hates me” — but never accepted. A month earlier, Letterman revealed on his show that Winfrey had sent him collection of children’s book as a gift marking the birth of his son, Harry.