Now she’s a life coach, too.
Oprah Winfrey says she steered Sarah Ferguson away from hosting a celebrity cooking show — and from appearing on “Dancing With the Stars.”
Instead, Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, is producing a six-part documentary, “Master Class: Finding Sarah,” for OWN, Winfrey’s new cable network which bows Saturday.
“She [Fergie] started e-mailing me and at one point asked what did I think of her doing a celebrity chef show,” Winfrey told parade.com.
“I said, ‘That’s not going to help you. How are you going to rehabilitate yourself on a celebrity chef show? You should be working on yourself.’ ”
Last May, the cash-strapped Ferguson, 51, was caught on tape trying to sell access to her former husband, Prince Andrew, for over $700,000 to an undercover newspaper reporter posing as an Indian businessman.
Winfrey interviewed Ferguson about the incident on “Oprah” last summer. Fergie claimed she “was in the gutter at that moment.”
“We had a moment of real connection, watching the tape of her trying to get [the money for access to Prince Andrew],” Winfrey said. “She said she didn’t want to go into bankruptcy.
“I said, ‘But when you look at that tape don’t you see a morally bankrupted person? The one thing you were trying to avoid, you already are.
“She said, ‘I never thought of it that way before.’ ”
Winfrey said she told Ferguson afterward, “Don’t let me see you on ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ ” Right.