Australian Host Recalls 'Bizarre' Ellen DeGeneres Experience In 2013 (via Fox411)
He explained that DeGeneres was initially going to co-host the morning talk show, but producers kept changing the plans to the point where she would not even come to Sydney, where the show is filmed.“The whole thing got watered down to, Ellen DeGeneres would do a sit-down interview, right?” Breen explained on, where he now works as a host. “We took the whole ‘Today’ show to Melbourne at our expense but she would do a sit-down interview with Richard Wilkins.
“We walk in and then the ‘Ellen Show’ producers, there was a lot of them, there was a lot of people there,” he explained. “Anyway the producers called us aside and said ‘OK this is how it’s going to work here this morning. Ellen is going to arrive at 10:15 and she’ll be sitting in this chair here and Richard you’ll be sitting in this chair here. Now Neil, no one is to talk to Ellen.
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