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Shoaib to appear on Oprah
Shoaib Akhtar is all set to appear on a special one-off edition of the Oprah Winfrey Show, after the talk-show queen invited him to Chicago to discuss his newly released autobiography, Controversially Yours.
A spokesman for Oprah confirmed that Ms Winfrey has reportedly been so moved by the book that she has decided to come out of retirement and host Shoaib in a two-hour special without commercial interruptions.
"OMG, Oprah loves the book. She can't stop talking about it to her friends. She's calling everyone up and telling them they have to read this inspirational story. We haven't seen her this excited since she first read James Frey's A Million Little Pieces."
According to unconfirmed reports, so inspired is Oprah by Shoaib's autobiography that she is also planning to revive the long defunct Oprah Book Club, just so she can promote the book. "Everyone needs to own a copy of this book. And if bringing back the Book Club means more people will read this moving story of one man's rise from difficult circumstances to successfully kick Mohammad Asif in the shins during a locker-room argument, then so be it," she said, wiping away tears.
As per the show's unofficial formula, Oprah will at first share some jokes with the Pakistani fast man, b
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