Winfrey, meanwhile, is mulling her next big move: a school in the U.S., possibly in her home state of Mississippi.

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She calls this shift "the big move" and cites her age and motherhood as its chief causes three years ago she gave birth to her first child, a son, Tiago, whose father is the Uruguayan bass-baritone Erwin Schrott.

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"She had six big breeze blocks on her, which I had to move quickly off of her to get her out and to take her up to the house, " he said.

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