Ellen heads to Australia

Two years after Australia went into a frenzy over a visit from talkshow host Oprah Winfrey, the country is to host another queen of  US daytime television – Ellen DeGeneres.

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DeGeneres will visit in Australia in March and record several segments for the show while she is here. She announced the visit during an interview with Nicole Kidman. The announcement will be shown on an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres show fast-tracked by Arena to be broadcast tomorrow night.

The visit of Oprah Winfrey was seen as a significant coup for Tourism Australia. Four Australian episodes of the show were broadcast in the US and in 145 other countries in December 2010 and repeated in 2011. It led to more than 86,000 media articles globally and

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