Rosie O’Donnell via Associated Press
Rosie O’Donell has hit out at her one-time friend and collaborator Oprah Winfrey for attending Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ much-publicised (and widely-mocked) wedding.
The multi-award-winning former daytime talk show host and panellist on The View – who recently relocated to Ireland in light of Donald Trump’s re-election as president – shared her thoughts on Bezos’ recent wedding in a candid poem posted on her Substack, writing that it had “turned my stomach seeing all these billionaires gathering in the gross excess of it all”.
Bezos and his now-wife Lauren Sánchez’s wedding was attended by guests like Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Ivanka Trump, as well as Oprah, who was specifically name-checked later in Rosie’s post.
Oprah Winfrey via Associated Press
“Is Oprah friends with Jeff [Bezos?] Really – how is that possible?” Rosie questioned. “He treats his employees with disdain, by any metric he is not a nice man.”
She also took aim at Sánchez, who she branded Bezos’ “fake fem bot wife”.
“[Bezos] sold his soul is what it looks like from here,” she continued. “The devil is smiling at all his conquests.”
Read Rosie’s full post over on her Substack page.
Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos in Venice on Saturday via Associated Press
Bezos and Sánchez’s days-long wedding took place in Venice last week, and was not only met with a wave of derision on social media, but also hundreds of protesters in the real world.
Many of these demonstrators voiced their frustration that the wedding ceremony – which is reported to have cost between £34 million and £41 million – only fuelled many of the issues currently facing Venice, including overtourism and climate change.
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