Tattle: Oprah's big surprise: Her half-sister

A MILWAUKEE woman just hit the genetic jackpot.

Oprah Winfrey has been teasing that she was going to reveal a shocking secret. Alas, it had nothing to do with BFF/rumored lady love Gayle King.

Instead, on yesterday's show Oprah introduced her legions to newly discovered half sister Patricia. Winfrey kept the last name of her new sib mum.

Patricia searched for years for the woman who gave her up for adoption in 1963. At that time, Oprah was only nine and living with her father in Nashville, Tenn. She had no idea that her mother was even pregnant. Through DNA tests, Patricia found that she was an 85 percent match to Winfrey's niece, whose mother

(also named Patricia) died in 2003.

Winfrey said that she learned the news from her assistant 10 minutes before she was set to tape an October show and that it shook her to her core. She spent much of yesterday's episode praising her newfound sis and her kids - Andre and Aquarius - for keeping their lips sealed instead of blabbing to a tabloid, and getting paid for the story.

"When I heard this about you, I said, regardless, I didn't know if it was true or not true that you are my sister, I had to meet you because I wanted to meet someone who had that type of character," Winfrey told Patricia. "So thank you."

The two sisters met for the first time on Thanksgiving.

Razzie dazzles

"The Last Airbender," courtesy of Bucks County-based director M. Night Shyamalan, has been nominated for a whopping nine Razzie Awards, among them worst picture, director, remake, screenplay, worst screen couple and worst ensemble. It also garnered a nomination in the inaugural year of the "worst eye-gouging misuse of 3-D" category.

The Razzies - or the Golden Raspberries, as they are more formally known - bestow dubious honors to the worst cinematic offerings of the year. The nomination for "The Last Airbender" in the worst-picture category marks a three-peat for Shymalan: His films "The Lady in the Water" (2006) and "The Happening" (2008) were also nominated.

Tying "The Last Airbender" for most Razzie nominations was "Eclipse," the third installment in the "Twilight" teen vampire saga. Rounding out the worst-picture list are "Sex and the City 2," the Jen Aniston flop "The Bounty Hunter" and parody film "Vampires Suck."

Robert Pattinson was nominated twice for worst actor for his roles in "Eclipse" and the little seen "Remember Me."

But two noms still can't beat out Jessica Alba, who was nominated for worst supporting actress in a whopping four films: "The Killer Inside Me," "Little Fockers," "Machete" and "Valentine's Day."

"Winners" of the Razzies will be announced on Feb. 26, the day before the Oscars.

Tattbits

* Christina Aguilera will sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl this year. She'll warm up the crowd for the Black Eyed Peas, who will perform during the halftime show. Also, some sort of football game will be played between performances and commercials.

* Officials at a Phoenix hospital say rocker Bret Michaels' surgery yesterday to close a hole in his heart was successful. Doctors discovered the hole in Michaels' heart in April, when he was treated for a brain hemorrhage.

* Director Kevin Smith told

audiences at the Sundance Film Festival that he would sell the rights to his new horror film, "Red State," to himself for the whopping sum of $20. The "Clerks" director said he will distribute the film himself by touring it across the country.

Pastor Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church showed up at Sundance to protest the screening. Smith has said that the main villain, pastor Abin Cooper (played by Michael Parks), in "Red State" was modeled after Phelps. Their protest was countered by a group who sang Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" to drown out the members of the Topeka-based church. By all accounts, these protests were considerably more entertaining than the movie itself.

* Bristol Palin has admitted that she has a new beau: a 20-year-old Alaskan pipeline worker, leading to many inappropriate jokes.

* Ronnie Spector, the girl-group goddess formerly of the Ronettes, had words for hair-style-stealing Snooki, of "Jersey Shore." "I look at Snooki and say, 'Please. I was the first Snooki,'" Spector told the New York Daily News' Gatecrasher. "She thinks she invented the poof. I invented it."

Considering that Spector took lead vocals in "Be My Baby," one of the greatest songs ever recorded, and Snooki was recently arrested in front of 8 million viewers for being drunk in the middle of the day, we're going to suggest that the singer let this one go.

* Former teen heart palpitation Aaron Carter is entering rehab "to heal some emotional and spiritual issues," according to his rep.

* Boxer Floyd Mayweather brought his fiancee, Shantel Jackson, to a hearing for charges of domestic battery filed by former flame Josie Harris in September.

Ladies, if your man's idea of a romantic outing is bringing you to his domestic-abuse trial, it's time to re-up that Match.com account.