"Why I refuse to get married" - Oprah Winfrey

Legendary talk show host, Oprah Winfrey 59, who has been dating businessman Stedman Graham since 1986 without tying the knot has finally opened up to reveal why the couple have doggedly dodged the road to the alter.

‘If I had wanted to get married, I could’ve made the time. I’m not a traditional woman and I haven’t had a traditional life and I think that had Steadman and I gotten married, we certainly would not have stayed married,’ the self-made billionaire said.

‘If you were to ask him, he would say the same thing. He’s a pretty traditional man, I’ve taught him to be non-traditional, but the very idea of what it means to be a wife and the responsibility and the sacrifice that that carries – I wouldn’t have held that very well, I wouldn’t have held that space very well.’

Speaking to Lorraine Kelly on ITV’s Lorraine during a two-part special this Friday and coming Monday, Oprah reveals she holds her long-running talk show as her biggest achievement.

‘The show was the true love of my life – it took up all of my energy,’ she says, lamenting the show that ended in 2011 after 25 years on air.

‘For so many years I had that day job that occupied my whole life so at the end of the Oprah show one of my final comments was “this show has been the love of my life” that is absolutely the truth.’ *The Spy ALWAYS finds out and ALWAYS tells it like it is. Follow @africncelebspy on twitter and like me on facebook or else....