Guess Who's Paying To Fly Oprah's Audience To Australia? It's Not Her
Posted on Sep 15, 2010 @ 09:18AM
Australian taxpayers are footing the $2.3 million bill for Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure, the upcoming 10-day televised visit from Oprah Winfrey and 450 of her crew members and studio audience, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Martin Ferguson, the country's tourism minister, gathered state and federal funding in what he dubbed "a major coup," as he believes the exposure from Winfrey's huge audience will serve as a major endorsement for the country's tourism industry, RadarOnline.com has learned.
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The Australian government will send an additional $1 million to help fund the trip, according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
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The talk show icon announced the trip to great fanfare during her season premiere earlier this week, and also gave her studio audience Motorola Smart phones. John Travolta will pilot the flight taking Winfrey and the others to Australia.
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Winfrey, 56, said last November that this season will be her last. She will launch her new Oprah Winfrey Network on cable New Year's Day.
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The Daily Juice
Sep 13, 2010 @ 13:52
Oprah will help herself to her idol, John Travolta. besides, i thought he and his wife were having a baby soon and now he is flying fat ladies to Aussieville!!
Posted Thu, 09/16/2010 - 1:57am
Glad it's not us, for once.
Posted Wed, 09/15/2010 - 8:41pm
Oprah is a very smart and wise business woman. She knows how to work the system, keep everyone happy while making boat load of money. She's like the richest woman in the world. Oprah can buy Africa and the United States, she's so rich! lol
Posted Wed, 09/15/2010 - 7:23pm
Never trusted queen o! It's all about the oprah brand and she stays wealthy because she doesn't spend her own cash.
Posted Wed, 09/15/2010 - 5:32pm
Not surprised. She also DID NOT give cars away a few years ago, that was the car market itself. Somehow she makes herself look great while really it is NOT her footing the bill. I can't stand her and DO NOT WATCh her show.
Posted Wed, 09/15/2010 - 3:24pm
the Oprah network.....everything Oprah...all day and all night. Like her magazine.....a shrine to her own vanity.
Posted Wed, 09/15/2010 - 2:59pm
the Oprah network.....everything Oprah...all day and all night. Like her magazine.....a shrine to her own vanity.
Posted Wed, 09/15/2010 - 2:59pm
She has worked hard to get to where she is today. Give her some credit. She has done some great things to help others.
Posted Wed, 09/15/2010 - 8:04pm
Oprah is such a greedy pig...she gives away nothing of her own.
Posted Wed, 09/15/2010 - 2:58pm