When celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz launched his candidacy in November for a U.S. Senate seat to represent Pennsylvania, Oprah Winfrey remained mum on the subject – until now.
Winfrey has come up with her first views on the GOP Pennsylvania Senate campaign of Mehmet Oz, a frequent guest on her old daytime television talk show.The talk show titan took a conscious stand against the conservative heart surgeon’s campaign. \’One of the great things about our democracy is that every citizen can decide to run for public office,’ Winfrey, told New York magazine.
‘Mehmet Oz has made that decision. And now it’s up to the residents of Pennsylvania to decide who will represent them,’ The Oprah Winfrey Show host asserted. She did not offer any words of endorsement for her former protégé who rose to fame in the 2000s as a regular guest on her show before starting his own “The Dr. Oz Show” in 2009.
‘America’s Doctor,’ was how Winfrey lovingly referred to the surgeon who regularly offered offer health and wellness advice on her show.
The media mogul is a well-known Democrat who has previously endorsed former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in their presidential campaigns.
At a campaign meet-and-greet in early December in New York, Oz reportedly told participants that he had requested Winfrey to remain out of his campaign. The doctor sated that he had “high hopes” for new mayor Eric Adams, saying that he “understands law enforcement issues.”
His show will go off air from January 14 while the host runs for office.
Experts believe that the surgeon-turned-statesman, who spent his time on the airwaves on his and Winfrey’s programmes to promote health and wellness habits and deliver suggestions, will have his job cut out for him when it comes to persuading voters of his ostensibly conscientious intentions.
The TV surgeon made news earlier this week after he and his wife, Lisa, were overheard allegedly yelling obscenities at a New York journalist, Olivia Nuzzi, when she commented on a conversation Nuzzi had had with Michelle Bouchard, the couple’s friend.
Not knowing that the journalist was listening, the exchange between the couple raised some skepticism. Despite his high-profile Senate campaign, Oz’s reported words appear to show that the aspiring politician did not want to be seen as the Republican Party’s next leader.
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