Oprah’s leaving daytime? That’s the report Stereohyped relays (with editor Lauren Williams’ requisite tears) as she follows the gossip mill that started with Big O’s comments on Larry King Live: “I have four or five years left on my show, and when I’m done with that contract, I’m done. Then I want to change the laws, state-by-state for child predators in this country; and that’s what I want to have done. And I won’t be satisfied until that is done. The children of the United States are being stolen, raped, tortured, and killed by sexual predators. I want the laws to change.”

Not that, when her deal is up in 2012, she’ll be running for public office, of course. (She denied as much to King.) But by then, Chris Hansen will be ready to retire from Dateline’s “To Catch a Predator” series, and they’ll need another stand-in when the pervs show up in the kitchen.

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