Not according to the Big O!
“The next Oprah? No,” the media mogul said at press conference in Pasadena yesterday. “Will he be the next Anderson Cooper? Yes. This whole idea . . . it was like me [being asked], ‘Are you going to be the next Phil Donahue?’ No, I wasn’t. I created my own way of doing it. I’m a fan of [Cooper's]. Obviously, he’s very talented. It would be interesting to see who does watch him, and what [he'll] do that’s different. And I will be rooting for him. He will not, definitively, will not — what I know for sure — he will not be the next Oprah."
Cooper's daytime talk show Anderson premieres September 2011.