Oprah and Tommy Hilfiger: What happened?

Just Kill Me · May 2nd, 2007, 05:39 PM

So I was on my way to a dental appointment and I hear on the Radio "Find out what really happened when Tommy Hilfiger was removed from the set! Today's OPRAH" Did anyone watch this? What the hell happened? I don't even know why I care but I do.

twitchy · May 2nd, 2007, 05:45 PM

They weren't talking about this thing were they?
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McJag · May 2nd, 2007, 05:48 PM

Yes and he's not! He almost cried about it.Hate campaign.

Just Kill Me · May 2nd, 2007, 05:56 PM

That was it? I was hoping he went all crazy and then Axl Rose showed up and Oprah got all Jerry Springer like... stupid commercials; I can't believe I actually cared.

McJag · May 2nd, 2007, 07:00 PM

There was no craziness. He was almost pitiful-this is not his fault!

Palermo · May 2nd, 2007, 07:42 PM

He said he was never on the show before, so he obviously couldn't have walked off. She said she wanted to put the rumors about him to rest once and for all. He said he's in charge of a drive to get 100 million dollars to get a memorial for Martin Luther King erected and has collected 78 million so far. Oprah told everybody that everytime they see an email or hear a rumor about him and his so called prejudice to tell the people it's a big fat lie!

Just Kill Me · May 3rd, 2007, 09:44 AM

That's what was on Oprah yesterday?

Sweetie · May 3rd, 2007, 09:46 AM

He should be raising money to hire a designer for his own line. His "logo" of red and blue is just so pitiful.

greysfang · May 3rd, 2007, 11:21 AM

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Tommy Hilfiger Appears On "Oprah" To Clear Up That Urban Legend Finally...

Filed under: Oprah Winfrey , Tommy Hilfiger

We've all heard that rumor. Tommy told Oprah on her show one time in the 90's that his clothes were meant for the crackers and that he was disgusted that they might have caught on in the black community. Anyone who believed that shit is about as dumb as those who, when they get that e-mail from the guy in Darfur saying they have a million dollars they need you to help them with and ask for your checking account #'s, provides them happily. Anyone who knows anything knows that everyone is Darfur has been brutally murdered. DUH! Anyway, Tommy recently cleared it up for the pinheads out there.

Tommy Hilfiger has never been kicked off Oprah's show ... because he's never even been on Oprah. But today, the preppy designer appeared for the first time with O to refute an ugly urban legend that's been circulating for over a decade.

More on the "Tommy is a Racist" urban legend after the jump.

An e-mail first popped up about ten years ago -- and has recently resurfaced -- which alleges that Hilfiger was booted off the set of "Oprah" when he supposedly admitted that he intended his designs for "upper-class white people," not for Blacks, Jews, Asians or Latinos. Turns out that Hilfiger never said anything of the sort -- anywhere -- and that he wasn't even a guest on the show. Hilfiger was so floored by the rumors, he tells O, that he paid FBI investigators "a lot of money" to track down the source, though the closest they got was an unnamed college campus. And, in the end, he says, the rumor's ridiculous because, frankly, what he really wants is money "from anyone that will buy my clothes."

At least he's being truthful with that last part. Next on Dr. Phil. a gerbil appears to state than no one from his community has ever been in Richard Gere's asshole.

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Just Kill Me · May 3rd, 2007, 12:08 PM

This is almost like that website about having black friends.

Moongirl · May 3rd, 2007, 02:32 PM

Here's a link to video clips from yesterday's show:

Oprah and Tommy Hilfiger Set the Record Straight Plus Our Most Memorable Guests

blissfullyunaware · May 3rd, 2007, 03:29 PM

People make up the strangest stories.
well thats nice to hear that he never said that.

goldengirl · May 16th, 2007, 12:20 PM

Well thats good that he cleared the air about that rumor. LOL @ the Dr.Phil part.

Lalique · May 16th, 2007, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Just Kill Me

This is almost like that website about having black friends.

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that site just cracks me up!

wheelbarrow · May 20th, 2007, 12:48 AM

it sucks how much damage libel can do! these past 10 years i always thought that rumor was true and didn't like Tommy Hilfigure.

it was a big deal at my middle school because pretty much everyone wore tommy hilfigure clothes. as soon as the racism allegations started, anyone who was caught wearing his brand to school was labelled a racist too and harangued.