Maria Shriver, stunned to discover her husband, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a love child–is close friends with Oprah Winfrey and was one of the stars who appeared at the Tuesday taping of two of her last shows at Chicago’s United Center, with 20,000 in the audience. <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/5441923-417/big-stars-show-up-to-laud-oprah-in-farewell-spectacular.html>>The Sun-Times report on the show is here.
Among the stars at the tapings (the shows will be broadcast May 23 and 24) to mark Winfrey’s last season–she closes the show after 25 years at the end of this month:
Tom Hanks, Jerry Seinfeld, Tom Cruise, Queen Latifah, Madonna, Beyonce, Halle Berry, Aretha Franklin, Maya Angelou, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Jordan and more.