Oprah Made A Huge Amount Of Money From A Tweet About Bread
- Publish date
- Thursday, 28 Jan 2016, 4:52PM
Oprah Winfrey is making the big bucks in her new venture with Weight Watchers.
According to Market Watch, the former talk show queen raked in $18 million ($US12 million) in just over an hour after tweeting a video about how she lost weight while still eating bread.
"I lost 26 pounds (11.7 kilograms) and I have eaten bread every single day," she declares in the footage.
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Eat bread. Lose weight. Whaaatttt? #ComeJoinMe https://t.co/jUgpk9ToXY https://t.co/xtnB53EwSf
— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) January 26, 2016
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The ambassador for Weight Watchers saw her ten per cent stock in the company soar after the tweet went out to her 31 million followers.
The Queen of talk shows made $US70 million after she announced she was taking a stake in the dieting company.
Read the full story at nzherald.co.nz
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