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11-07-2008, 01:02 PM
Oprah Winfrey Reunites With Man She Cried On
Friday November 7, 2008
Oprah Winfrey and Sam Perry
Oprah Winfrey during the live broadcast of President Elect Barack Obama's acceptance speech on November 4, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.
On Friday's Oprah Winfrey Show, Sam Perry - the man she cried on after Barack Obama was elected president - says he didn't mind being her human hankie.
"What a night to share. This is the jacket, and you'll see there's no mascara [on it]," he tells her, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. "My cell phone right from the very beginning was vibrating from calls. People were staked out at my house yesterday as well."
Winfrey -- who dubbed Perry, a consultant living in northern California, "Mr. Man" on her show Wednesday -- says she also got a barrage of questions.
"I get home and there are all these e-mails saying to me saying, 'Who's the guy whose shoulder you were leaning on?' " Winfrey tells Perry, a former reporter with Reuters and UPI.
She was so overcome by joy she never even looked at his face.
"If I had to identify him in a lineup I couldn't," she says, noting that she saw their photos in the paper the day after the election. "At first I did [ask] him if I could lean into his shoulder.
"We were packed so closely you couldn't move," she recalls. "If I had had my hands down, I would have been in this guy's butt."
A panel of co-hosts also joke about the moment.
Snipes actor Mark Consuelos, "Can you image this guy? He's watching Obama and all of a sudden he turns around and it's Oprah."
Friday November 7, 2008
Oprah Winfrey and Sam Perry
Oprah Winfrey during the live broadcast of President Elect Barack Obama's acceptance speech on November 4, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.
On Friday's Oprah Winfrey Show, Sam Perry - the man she cried on after Barack Obama was elected president - says he didn't mind being her human hankie.
"What a night to share. This is the jacket, and you'll see there's no mascara [on it]," he tells her, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. "My cell phone right from the very beginning was vibrating from calls. People were staked out at my house yesterday as well."
Winfrey -- who dubbed Perry, a consultant living in northern California, "Mr. Man" on her show Wednesday -- says she also got a barrage of questions.
"I get home and there are all these e-mails saying to me saying, 'Who's the guy whose shoulder you were leaning on?' " Winfrey tells Perry, a former reporter with Reuters and UPI.
She was so overcome by joy she never even looked at his face.
"If I had to identify him in a lineup I couldn't," she says, noting that she saw their photos in the paper the day after the election. "At first I did [ask] him if I could lean into his shoulder.
"We were packed so closely you couldn't move," she recalls. "If I had had my hands down, I would have been in this guy's butt."
A panel of co-hosts also joke about the moment.
Snipes actor Mark Consuelos, "Can you image this guy? He's watching Obama and all of a sudden he turns around and it's Oprah."