Oprah awards 276 ‘gift boxes on wheels’
Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season Monday by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car.
Making sure the audience was kept in suspense, Winfrey opened the show by calling 11 people onto the stage. She gave each of them a Pontiac G6. She then had gift boxes distributed to the rest of the audience and said one of the boxes contained keys to a 12th car. But when everyone opened the boxes, each had a set of keys.
Winfrey said the audience members were chosen because their friends or family had written about their need for a new car.
Pontiac donated the cars, which retail for $28,000.
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