Oprah Gets Daddy to Zip it

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Oprah called her father, Vernon Winfrey, to question him about the memoir rumors. As we told you yesterday, Oprah was said to be 'shocked' when she learned from Page Six that Mr. Winfrey was penning "Things Unspoken" about his daughter. Today, TV Guide is reporting that the book is officially 'on hold".

Vernon Winfrey, who still runs a Nashville barbershop, told TV Guide in an exclusive interview. "There is no book," he says, denying reports that he's been peddling a memoir titled Things Unspoken. "We might think about it later on," he went on to say. If he does decide to do it "later," Vernon's not sure if he'd want to collaborate with Oprah, whose book-club efforts have helped sell millions of copies of the works featured on her show. "Well, I don't know," says Vernon. "We have to decide."

When Vernon was pressed as to if Oprah herself talked him out of writing the book, he got a bit defensive saying,

"It's just on hold right now, OK?"

Ok, Ok. Geesh. I bet he got paid off.