"Now I know why you call this place Oz, because you are truly at the end of the yellow brick road….After a week in this country, I love Australia. I love Australia. I LOVE AUSTRALIA!....Wherever you are in the world, you have to come here.”
-Oprah Winfrey
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| Photo of our TV as we watch the evening news |
What better endorsement can one have than that of Oprah Winfrey’s? She began the last season of her talk show with one of her mega giveaways, revealing the ultimate prize to her guests, mostly consisting of people who never travelled outside of the United States— a trip to Australia!
Fast forward a couple of months and the time has come (and now gone). With a helpful 4-5 million dollar contribution by several state and federal agencies, the show will be broadcasted on 215 stations across United States and 145 countries around the world, bringing Australia into the homes of tens of millions of people. In glorious fashion, the famous and iconic Sydney Opera House, where the shows were taped, was fittingly renamed the “Oprah House”.
Fast forward a couple of months and the time has come (and now gone). With a helpful 4-5 million dollar contribution by several state and federal agencies, the show will be broadcasted on 215 stations across United States and 145 countries around the world, bringing Australia into the homes of tens of millions of people. In glorious fashion, the famous and iconic Sydney Opera House, where the shows were taped, was fittingly renamed the “Oprah House”.
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| Image courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald |
And what a week it has been... From nightly firework shows to an “O” illuminated on the Harbour Bridge (no joke); From the Great Barrier Reef to Ayres Rock, visiting Melbourne to getting up close and personal with koalas and kangaroos, the last week has been a bit of an Oprah frenzy- each moment precisely calculated and documented. She has even made herself an official ambassador to Australia. Thanks to the news here, we have had 24 hour coverage- apparently not much else is happening around the world this week...
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| Image courtesy of Couriermail |
Her first show filmed outside of the United States featured guests including Bono, Jay-Z, Bon Jovi, Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Olivia Newton-John and Hugh Jackman, who accidently injured himself as he made his entrance to the stage- zip lining down from top of the Opera House and slamming into the stage lights below (oops).
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