Believe it or not, American Idol’s resident meanie actually does have a heart. A family in Minnesota know this better than most of us.

Randy and Amy Stoen went on Oprah to talk about their daughter Madelaine’s medical condition. She has a rare form of facial cancer. A friend told Simon Cowell about it, and he paid their mortgage off. Wow.

He actually went on Oprah’s show himself to tell them. He said, I know that you’re having problems with your mortgage. And as of this afternoon, your mortgage has been paid off. If there’s any problems, you know, I’m a guardian angel now.”

You know you’ve really made it big at 14 years of age when Oprah invites you on her show. Disney star Miley Cyrus of the popular show Hannah Montana was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and talked about dating… with her dad sitting right beside her!

When asked about whether Miley was allowed to date, Miley said that she was allowed but that her dad acts weird about it. She told a story of how when a guy visited her at home, her dad was standing in the kitchen looking out at them with the dog right beside him. Billy Ray Cyrus tries to play it off and said that he wasn’t spying but Oprah knew otherwise.

Miley then capped off the show by singing ‘The Best of Both Worlds’.

Sometimes I think Oprah’s a little TOO mushy, but when I saw what she was doing for these girls, I really was touched. I think she’s sharing her wealth in many, many ways, both advertised and not. I’m sure she spends plenty of money on charitable causes here in the US. Such as the Katrina victims and others that I have heard mentioned on her show teasers. (I can’t watch her show as I am still at work when it comes on). Just because she’s spreading money in other parts of the world too doesn’t mean she’s not helping people here. And besides that…it’s her BILLIONS…she can do what she wants with it. As for the beauty salons Dave, if you had seen the special on the opening of the school, you would have seen the harsh back grounds these young girls came from. I don’t think having their hair and nails done is going to turn them into anorexic models, but it just might boost their self-esteem and give them a little more confidence in themselves.

That works out to 7 hours overtime EVERYDAY that means this person worked like 15 hours Monday thru Friday and 7 hours Saturday and Sunday everyday for 4 months straight… That is absolutely absurd and if this person is working like that harpo Inc and Oprah should be ashamed I am sure that goes against every single labor law out there… Although I have to say I would not complain about a 65,000 dollar overtime bonus, but that is ridiculous how many hours that lady has worked… It’s been hard calculating the extra number of hours that employee might have worked but hopefully I have done it right. $65,000 is at times what some people earn in the whole year selling food at major outlets or something similar, so thumps up to that lady but what did she sleep eat and drink coffee every one hour to finish the work load. Oprah should release the work time sheets of that lady and lets know if she is causing labour unrest in the company.