Jenny is Oprah's newest protege. Unfortunately, we're pretty sure there won't be any baby pools or hoses involved in Jenny and Oprah's collaboration.

McCarthy has inked a multi-year overall deal with Winfrey's Harpo Prods. to develop projects on different platforms, including a syndicated talk show that the actress/author would host. (thr.com)

Like Rachel Ray and Dr. Phil before her, Jenny now has the opportunity to use the Oprah trampoline to catapult herself to household name status. Hopefully, unlike Phil and Ray-Ray, Jenny will not use the O tramp to annoy the living shit out of the entire country.  Maybe she'll bring us something new and different, and spunky, but not in an icky yum-o sort of way.

Jenny's apprenticeship with Oprah has officially begun with an oprah.com blog, entitled "Give It Up Before Summer." The blog is apparently an online rant about how hard it is to complete a self imposed 30 day period of abstinence from chocolate, or eating after 7 p.m., or whatever other dirty little vice you've got locked away in your deep dark pantry of secrets. McCarthy writes in her first post:

"Let's start a 30-day blog with Oprah.com to come together every day to bitch and moan about how well or horrible we are doing." There are no rules to this. It's simply choosing something you have been wanting to give up and making it happen this month. (oprah.com)

This is hard hitting stuff people. Edgy. Promising. Congrats, J! 

 Previously:

Oprah Loves Ellen [VIDEO]

Jenny McCarthy Fakes It For Chelsea Handler [VIDEO]

Oprah Got Her President Can She Get Her Olympics