Oprah Winfrey doesn't hosting her iconic miss talk show

Oprah Winfrey doesn't miss her talk show.

The veteran broadcaster helmed the Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and while she loved being able to connect with the audience, she admitted making the programme and delving into hard-hitting topics became very "hard".

Speaking on the Let's Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa podcast, she said: "I miss the everyday conversation. I miss the conversations afterwards.

"As much as I loved the audience, I'm telling you, the nature of what we were doing every day became just so hard."

And Oprah admitted her producers would get "overwhelmed" if the programme didn't win awards so she eventually stopped submitting herself for the major prizes so her team could focus on "doing the best work possible and she could focus on "putting out the effort to do good things, to be a force for good in the world".

She added: "It's not gonna be measured by an award at the end of the year. It's measured in every viewer response.

"I've said many times, your legacy is every life you touch. It's measured in all the lives that are being affected by what you're doing and saying.

"I still hold in reverence all the opportunities we had to reach into people's lives and be there for them in ways that mattered."