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Former TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey, 69, suggested teaming up with Senator Mitt Romney on a 2020 White House run to beat out Donald Trump, according to a new book.

There has always been frequent speculation that Oprah, a longtime resident of our rarefied enclave, had political aspirations, and analysts said her popularity and wealth make her a formidable candidate.

Now it appears Oprah, a Democrat, made a pitch to the Utah Republican senator, who lost to Barack Obama in the 2012 election, to “save the country.”

Romney, 76, revealed the plan to author McKay Coppins and it is included in his new book Romney: A Reckoning, which has just been published.

The senator apparently dismissed the idea, fearing it would help rather than hinder Trump.

House on the Market

Former TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her actress wife Portia De Rossi are selling Pompeiian Court, the San Ysidro Road estate, they bought in June for $22.5 million, for $46.5 million.

On eight acres, the 1919 property is 6,500 square feet with five bedrooms and ten bathrooms.

A Goop-y Exit

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is ready to make her exit!

The Oscar winner has detailed how she wants her life to look like when she retires in due course.

“I wish to literally disappear from public life,” Paltrow, 51, tells Bustle, a digital website. “No one will ever see me again.”

The Montecito resident plans to sell Goop, the wellness company she founded in 2008. She hopes to retire from her business in “a few more years” to focus on her family.

Paltrow married TV producer Brad Falchuk in 2010 and is stepmother to his two children, a daughter Isabella, 19, and son Brody, 17. She and her ex-husband rocker Chris Martin are parents to daughter Apple, 19, and son, Moses, 17.

According to The New York Times, Goop was valued at a hefty $250 million in 2018.

Sightings

Singer Lionel Richie and former tennis ace Jimmy Connors at the Montecito Club… Actress Robin Wright, ex-wife of Sean Penn, at Pierre Lafond… Weakest Link host Jane Lynch shopping at Montecito Country Mart.

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