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Oprah Winfrey's lucky studio audience has arrived, who will be traveling and exploring the land Down Under after they've won a 8 day trip in her ''Oprah's Ultimate Australia Adventure'' during her 25th and final season of the Oprah Winfrey Show. Associated Press (AP) was first with a story.
Oprah Winfrey will record shows for her daily talk show this week that is seen in 145 countries including South Africa on SABC3. Recording her show in Sydney with a studio audience is the first time the talk show titan has done so, who herself will by now have arrived in Sydney in her $50 million private jet. She is set to make her first official appearance on Friday, according to The Daily Telegraph. The 300 guest (242 women and 60 men) landed in two Qantas 747s and went by bus to Sydney's Intercontinental Hotel on Monday. The Sydney Morning Herald reports people were mobbed at the airport by a massive media presence who swarmed the arrivals hall, and were told not to talk to the media.
Besides recording two episodes at Sydney's Opera House for the Oprah Winfrey Show with tickets for a studio audience of 6 000 people each that was swept up within minutes, Oprah's American tour group will be split up in smaller group's today to visit various Australian states. They're in for an unbelievable adventure through Australia's eight states and territories, ranging from the Great Barrier Reef, the northern rainforest, the Uluru rock monolith, the Outback, the wine farms, Tasmania and Kangaroo Island.
''It's been like Christmas every day,'' Farah Meadows from Indio, California and one of the lucky guests said to Australia's The Australian. ''Everything is a total surprise, everything is very hush-hush, they don't want us to know a whole lot.''
