Oprah Winfrey gives magazine staff $10,000

Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey has given staff at her magazine $10,000 (£6,700) each and an Apple iPad.

Oprah Winfrey once gave every member of her audience a new car Photo

  "As a thank you for their hard work and dedication, Oprah Winfrey surprised the staff of O, The Oprah Magazine with an Apple iPad and a check for $10,000, to commemorate the magazine's 10th anniversary," a magazine spokesman said.

   Reports from the US said that each Apple iPad came with a leather case engraved with the staffer's initials. All staffers received the gift, regardless of how long they had worked there.

The total number of staff members who received the gifts was not released.

Winfrey is known for handing out lavish gifts.

   In 2004, Winfrey celebrated the 22nd season of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" by surprising 276 members of her studio audience with brand new Pontiac G6 sport sedans courtesy of General Motors.

"You get a car, you get a car, you get a car," Winfrey famously said.

 She has also given her staff all-expenses-paid holidays to the Mediterranean and Hawaii.

The popular US television talk show host plans to end "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011 after 25 years to set up her own cable TV network.

   The top-rated daytime show is broadcast from Chicago on ABC television stations across the United States and in more than 140 countries. It has helped Winfrey amass a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at $2.3 billion.
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