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John Tesh is looking back on his brief romance with Winfrey, and the challenges they faced as an interracial couple in the 1970s.
The former Entertainment Tonight host, 73, opened up about dating Winfrey, 72, when the pair worked at competing local television stations in Nashville, .
During a recent interview with Page Six, Tesh spoke about how it was 'very uncomfortable back then for an African-American woman and a very, very white guy' to be dating.
He acknowledged that their relationship 'was unusual in the South.'
'My whole family grew up in the South, and so I was obviously aware of that,' he explained.
Despite the social climate at the time, Tesh said they refused to let the outside noise define their relationship.
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John Tesh is looking back on his brief romance with Oprah Winfrey, and the challenges they faced as an interracial couple in the 1970s; seen in 2001
'It became a joke between us,' he explained, 'because we would work all day and then, like we really saw each other once a week, and she or I would say, "Hey, which restaurant do you want to empty tonight?"'
The pair briefly dated while building their careers in local news before eventually going their separate ways.
The former Entertainment Tonight host, 73, opened up about dating Winfrey, 72, when the pair worked at rival local television stations in Nashville, Tennessee (seen in 1978)
Tesh told Page Six that it was 'very uncomfortable back then for an African-American woman and a very, very white guy' to be dating (pictured in 1993)
In 2020, Winfrey wrote about their decades-long 'spiritual partnership' in her 'What I Know For Sure' column for O, The Oprah Magazine.
