{"id":8445,"date":"2024-04-15T21:55:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=8445"},"modified":"2024-04-15T21:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:55:48","slug":"when-tina-turner-surprised-oprah-for-her-50th-birthday-show-it-was-simply-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=8445","title":{"rendered":"When Tina Turner surprised Oprah for her 50th birthday show it was simply the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that Oprah was one of Tina Turner\u2019s biggest supporters.<\/p>\n<p>As the talk show host put it in her tribute to the Queen of Rock and Roll, \u201cI started out as a fan of Tina Turner, then a full-on groupie, following her from show to show around the country, and then, eventually, we became real friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So it was only fitting that Turner surprised Oprah on January 29, 2004 during the taping of her 50th birthday show.<\/p>\n<p>And surprised she was!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oprah Winfrey a Happy Birthday!  with a song from Tina Turner\" width=\"820\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/od3ab_yBvSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oprah was genuinely shocked at the legend who appeared before her and sang \u201cThe Best\u201d on The Oprah Winfrey Show.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to watch without a smile on your face!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that Oprah was one of Tina Turner\u2019s biggest supporters. As the talk show host put it in her tribute to the Queen of Rock and Roll, \u201cI started out as a fan of Tina Turner, then a full-on groupie, following her from show to show around the country, and then, eventually, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}