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Oprah and Dr. Oz -- Colon Ads Are a Load of Crap!

Posted Aug 20th 2009 11:06AM by TMZ Staff

Oprah and Dr. Oz Oprah Winfrey and her pal Dr. Oz are looking to kick a little ass over an Internet colon cleansing scheme.

The two daytime superstars have teamed up to fire off a lawsuit over a bunch of allegedly BS web ads for things like "Colon Pro Cleanse, Power Colon Cleanse, Colon Max [sic]" -- ads that feature Oprah and Oz's image, names and voices.

According to the suit, filed yesterday in NY Federal court, Oz and Op claim the company behind the ads are cashing in "on the false premise that [the products] have been tested or recommended by Miss Winfrey and/or Dr. Oz when they have not."

The O Squad also claims the colon offers usually "turn out to be credit card scams or other fraudulent schemes."

Oprah and Oz are suing the company for an unspecified amount of cash -- though the number is gonna be huge. They're also asking the judge to force the colon people to flush their ads down the drain ASAP.



Tags: colon cleanser, ColonCleanser, dr. oz, Dr.Oz, lawsuit, oprah winfrey, OprahWinfrey

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1. nice

Posted at 11:25AM on Aug 20th 2009 by jmoney

2. Colon! Oprah! First?

Posted at 11:25AM on Aug 20th 2009 by Uhhh... whoops

3. The O Squad also claims the colon offers usually "turn out to be credit card scams or other fraudulent schemes."

Then how in the flaming hellz are you going to go after them? They change domains almost daily, never happen.
Good work on trying to clear your name of them but in the end people will now only recall Oprah said something about colon cleanse and in the end (ha) will go buy up some O colon cleanse product.

Posted at 11:30AM on Aug 20th 2009 by cranky elf

4. Oprah is a colon ad. (top 5!)

Posted at 11:31AM on Aug 20th 2009 by atabaw

5. You would think they would have done something sooner, before so many people lost so much money. Instead of giving the money they win to charity, how about giving it back to the people who were taken for a ride.

Posted at 11:32AM on Aug 20th 2009 by It's about time!

6. But they did endorse Resveretrol which gave me the worst body rash in history. Just stay away from anything that is new to the market.

Posted at 11:32AM on Aug 20th 2009 by South

7. Have anyone bought any of these products? I order the AcaiBerry Burn. When my shipment arrived the bottle look total different from the one on line. Ps once you order you have to search all over the place to cancel your order,so watch your credit card to make sure you don't get any extrat charge from this FREE trial offer.

Posted at 11:33AM on Aug 20th 2009 by Angel

8. whats stuck up their butts? maybe nothing if they would endorse the product

Posted at 11:39AM on Aug 20th 2009 by Joe

9. There's nothing like fighting over "SH!T"!!!!

REGULAR DRINKING OF PRUNE JUICE, FRESH FRUIT, VEG AND ORGANIC YOGURT W/LIVE CULTURE USUALLY DOES THE TRICK!!!

Posted at 11:41AM on Aug 20th 2009 by HumanNature

10. See what people have to say about Oprah - at www.tweetfeel.com right now she is sitting at +56% - It pretty crazy what people are saying.

Posted at 11:45AM on Aug 20th 2009 by jeremy

11. 8. There's nothing like fighting over "SH!T"!!!!

REGULAR DRINKING OF PRUNE JUICE, FRESH FRUIT, VEG AND ORGANIC YOGURT W/LIVE CULTURE USUALLY DOES THE TRICK!!!



Posted at 11:41AM on Aug 20th 2009 by HumanNature


Thanks for giving me a good laugh!! I almost threw up my latte reading your comment!!!!!! ha ha

Posted at 11:52AM on Aug 20th 2009 by Daki

12. I wish Oprah would go to the land of OZ and disappear forever!

Posted at 12:06PM on Aug 20th 2009 by RALPH DOZIER

13. Someone needs to go after that Video professor..His cds are not free..Got me for over $800.00 dollars before I could catch it..

Posted at 1:39PM on Aug 20th 2009 by The Truth

14. I Hope that Oprah prevails in her suit to get these shaddy companies out of business using her name or likeness in selling something that has not been proven or that is not even FDA approved. Oprah is a Brand! and when you have worked your whole adult life to make your success, then you have to have a legal team in place to counter attack all these pop-up over night companies and scams that try to prey on people by using such wording as ''As seen on Oprah'' Go oprah!!!!!

Posted at 11:56AM on Aug 20th 2009 by JEFF

15. Sounds like a bunch of CRAP!

Posted at 11:59AM on Aug 20th 2009 by WillOTheWisp

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