- Billionaire TV host, Oprah Winfrey, has revealed she will join actress Mindy Kaling in supporting Premier League club Swansea City
- Oprah made the decision during a TV Show where Mindy passionately explained why she is supporting Swansea
- Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Billionaire TV host, Oprah Winfrey, has revealed she will join actress Mindy Kaling in supporting Premier League club Swansea City after the actress passionately explained why she is supporting the Welsh football club.
Mindy who was a guest on ITV's Lorraine alongside Oprah and Reese Witherspoon, was asked to confirm whether she really does have shares in Swansea.
She stunned show host Lorraine Kelly when she said certainly does, before hailing the club a "smart choice" and inspiring the other guests to fly the flag for the Swans.
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"It's true. It doesn't come up organically in conversation but when I was here I was hoping to go to Wales and see my team," Mindy told Lorraine.
"Football is such an amazing sport, it's so incredible and incredibly popular. And honestly I was inspired by Oprah - she invests in things she believes in - I believe in this team, and I think it's a smart choice, I don't think it's going anywhere.
"I could have picked something a little bit closer to my home but I think it's an adventure."
An Oprah who Listened intently to Mindy's impassioned explanation for investing in the Premier League minnows, Oprah announced that she was now also a fan.
"I do believe in making investments in what you believe so that your energy goes into the same thing that your money is going into and that just gives it more power, so I now believe in the team, I'll invest in it too," she said.
Stunned by the humorous and unexpected direction in which the conversation had headed, Lorraine announced: "So we are all Swansea football club supporters here, including Oprah Winfrey, you heard it here first," to which Oprah responded "there you go".
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
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She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
She is the richest African-American and North America's first multi-billionaire black person and has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history.
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