“Sally Field used to date Burt Reynolds, and I asked this awful question. It was a bad question. I wouldn’t do it today,” Oprah said, calling it “worse” than a question about sex.

and the world was suddenly fascinated by Burt Reynolds from the bottom of his lifted shoes to the top of his toupee, both of which he admitted wearing. Reynolds's stardom grew quickly ...

He was not above making fun of himself and his toupee. In 1979, he opened the Burt Reynolds ... and bad restaurant investments contributing to more than $10 million in debts, Reynolds filed ...

(who costarred with Reynolds in “Smokey and the Bandit” and also dated him) she asked a bad question. “My big mistake: I asked her, ‘Does Burt sleep with his toupee on?’” Winfrey recalled.

With hit movies including Smokey And The Bandit, Deliverance, The Cannonball Run and The Longest Yard the screen hunk dominated the global box offi ce and was Hollywood’s highest paid star ...

He's an ageing, washed-up, screen heart-throb with bad health ... that one to you then Burt?” Isn’t it, erm, a bit close for comfort...? “Well,” chuckles Burt Reynolds, 82, “I guess ...

(The pair dated for several years in the late 70s; Reynolds died in September 2018 at the age of 82.) "I asked her, 'Does Burt sleep with his toupee on ... "It was a bad question," Winfrey ...