Ellen DeGeneres
The Daily Telegraph reports
We’re polishing our Down Under Dance moves for
Ellen DeGeneres's March arrival, just as we wept, and screamed and hollered for
Oprah Winfrey when she brought her American audience to Australia in 2010.
Yes, even in a country known for its laconic, laid-back attitude to
life, we seemingly cannot get enough of the cheesiness and cringe-inducing
moments that's all part of the Ellen and Oprah talk shows.
I should know.
When I went on the set of The Ellen Show last month with a bunch of
other typically, cynical hard-nosed Australian journalists, I not only found
myself hugging the person next to me but we danced so much in our seats that we
almost worked up a sweat.
So if we can all take to the female talk-show formula so much, why don't
we have an Australian Ellen or Oprah?
For a long time it seemed that Kerri-Anne Kennerley would take that
mantle until her morning show became stale and overrun by advertorials.
Recently it seemed that the Seven Network would help to revitalise her
until it was announced last week that her yet-to-be announced project had been
put on hold.
Australia even had its own successful talk show queen in former
Playschool presenter, Trish Goddard.
But that didn't happen for her until she returned to the UK where she
now hosts her hot talk show, The Trish Goddard Show, on Channel 5.
Sonia Kruger, who will host a welcome party for Ellen in Melbourne, is
another contender.
The Mornings presenter who also endeared herself to many by hosting Big
Brother on 9, is hugely likable, funny and glamorous, but would she be able to
lay open her soul the way that Oprah does?
That leaves Chrissie Swan, who has recently endured a trial by media
when she was snapped smoking while pregnant. Swan currently hosts Can Of Worms
and has already won a 2011 Logie for Best New Female Talent.
It would certainly be unfortunate if Australians could only get excited
by American talk show talent. This would mean that the cultural cringe is well
and truly back.
Surely we have moved on much too far for that.
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