Celebrity News USA: Beyonce, Madonna honor Oprah in farewell shows .

CHICAGO (AFP) - The stars came out to honor Oprah Winfrey in a couple of spectacular farewell shows taped in presence of 13,000 ecstatic fans as the talk show queen wraps up her 25th and final season.

Tom Hanks served as host and cheerleader for the evening, telling Winfrey: "Tonight you are encircled by aught but passion" and thanking "a protagonist who had a classroom of millions" for everything she's done for her viewers.

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Oprah bids farewell next week after 25 days on the air and all of Holllywood is coming out to place her off with a bang Tom Hanks Tom Cruise Katie Holmes Madonna Will Smith and lots of other stars descended on Chicago yesterday.

You can go big or you can go O And Oprah Winfrey is passing out in Alist style. The daytime TV doyenne is wrapping up her namesake talk show The Oprah.