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Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

icyfroth — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:46:25 GMT

All Sydney is agog today with Ellen's visit:

ELLEN DeGeneres and her crew have checked into her penthouse suite in Sydney's prestigious Intercontinental Hotel.

The US TV talk show host earlier arrived at Sydney Airport to the delight of hundreds of screaming Aussie fans.

The US talkshow queen stopped to groove along with the "Ellen choir" as she walked into the international arrivals lounge with wife, Portia.

Ellen stopped and chatted to fans before being swept into waiting black vans swamped by her fans.

Even embattled Prime Minister Julia Gillard got in on the act.

Ms Gillard tweeted: "Welcome to Australia @TheEllenShow. Hope you get to see as much as possible of our beautiful country. JG"

There's a fair bit going on in Sydney this weekend.

The new Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior" is in Sydney on Sunday, on her "Save the Barrier Reef" tour. As a Greenpeace supporter I would have loved to go on board for a look, but we will be travelling out of Sydney this Sunday. Bad planning 😞

I believe Sir Bob Geldof is also gracing us with his presence, I heard him interviewed on the radio this morning.

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

bright.ton42 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:26:52 GMT

Well the last I heard was that she was not coming to Australia. I only read that

yesterday. She must have changed her mind quickly.

I would have like to visit the Rainbow Warrior too Icy.

Melbourne did get a visit though by the QE2.

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

icyfroth — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:15:03 GMT

Hi Bright 🙂

Ellen had a bad flu apparently which made her postpone her original tour dates.

Apparently it prevented her from getting down and kissing the ground. So I read, lol.

The minute she looked out the window of her hotel in Sydney she said "what a beautiful view".

She's obviously done her homework and knows what we aussies like to hear :^O

I hope reporters no longer ask celebrities "how do you like Australia" the minute they get off the plane.

I believe the Rainbow Warrior was in Melbourne as well.

By the way, I tried to pet the ginger cat next door this morning but it flicked it's tail and ran away from me.

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daydream**believer — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:51:38 GMT

Ellen is great

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cherry*135 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:28:16 GMT

Did she get the idea from Oprah?

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

icyfroth — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:42:23 GMT

I guess so.

I don't mind Ellen, I've never watched her show, but from what I've seen and heard and heard she's quite funny.

There doesn't seem to be as much brouhaha about her visit as there was about Oprah's. Our Premier Barry O'Farrel didn't come to welcme her as did our then Premier Christina Kennealy when she welcomed Oprah.

It was nice of our PM to welcome Ellen, though.

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

the_bob_delusion — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:47:35 GMT

I saw the reactions to Ellen. 😮 People are crazy.

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clair.de.lune — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:48:34 GMT

If you've never watched her show why bother with the thread?

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just_me_karen — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:48:45 GMT

Ellen's wife is an Aussie so I think this is more of a personal visit with a bit of promo, whereas Oprah was here for tourism Australia.

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

clair.de.lune — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:49:53 GMT

If you've never kissed her wife why bother with that post?

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

just_me_karen — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:51:41 GMT

:^O you're right, I've never kissed her wife, so please ignore my post.

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

icyfroth — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:09:11 GMT

If you've never watched her show why bother with the thread?

why bother commenting on this thread if it bothers you that I bothered to start a thread even if I don't bother to watch the Ellen show?

Please ignore that I'm ignoring you.

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

clair.de.lune — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:12:03 GMT

I can get to last post now icy Karen showed me how

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

soul_art — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:17:44 GMT

Hi clair, I think you should take Ellen and Portia camping.....I think they'd love it !

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

clair.de.lune — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:20:58 GMT

Hi soul if you've never been camping why would you mention it?

I bet you can't get to last post

I bet ibis' sides are going to hurt now because I've only just learnt to click to last post

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

just_me_karen — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:23:11 GMT

Ellen is a vegan, she doesn't like chooks or eggs... not that I'd know, since I've only watched her show twice and have never kissed her wife, so please disregard this comment.

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

joz*garage — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:25:40 GMT

clair, the last post read? pfft, big deal. did you know there are scripts you can add to your browser (except for IE) which will take you to the last post read?

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

joz*garage — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:27:34 GMT

the last post read?:8}

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soul_art — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:28:04 GMT

umm, I mentioned camping because Ellens wife Portia (who I've never kissed either) has a name that made me think of porta potty and people use them when they go camping....don't they ?

and no, I have no idea how to go to last post but then how would you know what people have posted?

Re: Ellen Degeneres Touches Down In Sydney

clair.de.lune — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:40:53 GMT

soul! My porta potty & my ensuite tent are the best things ever!!

It is a big deal joz Hmpf!