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Oprah Winfrey's inviolate public image is getting splattered by veteran dirt-digger Kitty Kelley, whose Oprah bio, out today, claims that Winfrey was, by her own admission, a teen prostitute - a detail Kelley says she picked up from an Oprah autobiography that was never published. Kelley conceded on the Today show Monday that Winfrey might have been overstating her youthful promiscuity in using the term "prostitute." The writer also told Today's Matt Lauer that other TV personalities, including Barbara Walters, Larry King and David Letterman, were blackballing Kelley out of fear of offending the Czarina of Chat. Kelley declared that she interviewed 850 people in researching Oprah Winfrey: A Biography, including one who told her that longtime Winfrey escort Stedman Graham is "nice enough but boring as hell. So boring." Other revelations: Some of Winfrey's relatives are skeptical of her oft-stated contention that she was sexually abused as a child. And she had a live-in love affair with former Entertainment Tonight anchor John Tesh in the '70s when they worked together at a TV station in Nashville. Tesh wasted no time confirming the affair Monday. Oprah's response to Kelley's 525-page tome? Winfrey's rep said the star "hasn't participated in or read Kitty Kelley's book, so she is unable to comment."

'Date Night' scores

The final box-office tally is in, and Date Night, the Steve Carell/Tina Fey comedy, narrowly edged out the myth-making Clash of the Titans over the weekend.

Date Night opened with $27.1 million, just $225,000 more than Titans, which was in its second week of release.

Contacted on Olympus, Zeus immediately demanded a recount, threatening to "release the Kraken" if the ranking was not reversed.

How to Train Your Dragon remained surprisingly strong at $25.3 million in its third week. The animated film fell only 13 percent. Compare that to the fourth-place finisher, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? It earned $11 million, a steep 62 percent drop from the previous week.

Anchor twins debut

Action News anchor Monica Malpass of 6ABC gave birth to twin boys shortly before 6:30 p.m. Monday, the station reports.

The new arrivals are Hunter Jace Malpass and Zeke Jones Malpass.

Wedding plans

Prime time's purest pleasure, Glee, returns to the air tonight after a dismaying four-month absence. That means more vicious taunts from America's most feared cheerleader coach, Sue Sylvester.