This story comes to us from Star Magazine. We would have heard it somewhere else or better yet, seen photographic evidence, if this was true. It’s still so interesting to contemplate as a potential story that I couldn’t pass it up though. Oprah Winfrey supposedly has almost no hair and what little hair she does have is dyed blonde like that “Stop the Insanity” woman:

Oprah Winfrey is always discreetly flanked by two massive security guards when she works out at Chicago’s pricey East Bank Club spa and gym. But her beefy protectors have little to worry about, since the 54-year-old TV mogul is virtually unrecognizable. In fact, Star has learned exclusively that when Oprah wants to go incognito, she simply takes off her wig to revealed a dyed-blonde buzz cut. “Nobody ever notices Oprah in the gym,” says an eyewitness. “She doesn’t wear makeup or a wig. Her head is practically shaved and she dyes the little hair she does have blonde. If she is recognized, it’s because of her voice!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, December 8, 2008]

This tidbit is in the cover story in Star: “Hollywood Bodyguards Tell All,” and also includes the details that Oprah’s people move her seat with her in it while she’s on stage and that she has someone put her shoes on for her after she walks on stage barefoot. Those two parts I would believe as there are potentially thousands of studio audience witnesses, but Star is really stretching it with this blonde buzz cut story. That said, there’s no way that’s Oprah’s natural hair. She’s got to have something under there.

Oprah is shown on 11/25/08 at tree planting ceremony at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls at Henley-on-Klip, South of Johannesburg, South Africa with Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. Credit: BARM/Fame Pictures