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"Oprah Winfrey has been described as having &amp;quot;mixed feelings&amp;quot; over Your OWN Show host Carson Kressley&amp;#039;s upcoming appearance on Dancing with the Stars.  The media mogul is said to have seen how Kressley&amp;#039;s participation in the popular ABC competition could help her struggling OWN network, despite her alleged aversion to &amp;quot;desperate&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;foolish&amp;quot; reality TV formats.  &amp;quot;Oprah has very mixed feelings about reality TV,&amp;quot; a source told The Huffington Post. &amp;quot;A few years ago, when she was doing her own show, she didn&amp;#039;t care for it at all. &amp;quot;Manipulating people who are so desperate to be famous and making then look foolish on TV is just not something she is comfortable doing.&amp;quot;  However, another insider argued: &amp;quot;Carson is a member of Oprah&amp;#039;s OWN family. If she really didn&amp;#039;t want him to appear on the ballroom floor she would have stopped it. Which she clearly didn&amp;#039;t.  &amp;quot;Her network isn&amp;#039;t the big hit she and everyone else thought it would be. Now those 20 million people watching one of her network stars shake his ass twice a week looks much more appealing.&amp;quot; Kressley will compete against celebrities such as David Arquette, Ricki Lake and Chaz Bono when the 13th season of Dancing with the Stars premieres on Monday, September 19 at 8/7c on ABC. Watch Carson Kressley discuss working with Oprah Winfrey below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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