Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres takes a walk along Manly Beach in Sydney. Picture: Michael Rozman/Warner Bros Source: Supplied
WEARING a striped shirt and beaming smile, Ellen DeGeneres led Sydney fans on a mad game of "Where's Wally" yesterday as she popped up at Manly Beach but was a no-show to watch Russell Crowe's Rabbitohs at Penrith.
After surprising fans with her impromptu beach promenade, with wife Portia de Rossi and a camera crew in tow, the visiting talk show host had been expected to take up an invitation to see Crowe's beloved South Sydney clash with the Panthers at Centrebet Stadium.
A game source confirmed club officials had made arrangements to host DeGeneres in the Chairman's Lounge, where "the table was set and the meal ordered" but her party failed to arrive. Federal Sports Minister Kate Lundy and NRL boss David Smith were among the waiting VIP guests ready to welcome the star to western Sydney.
They weren't the only locals put out by the US celebrity's whistlestop trip, with Botanic Gardens staff receiving complaints from wedding parties that noise from The Ellen Show taping on Saturday had been so loud it drowned out their vows.
"Every effort was made to help (couples) have a successful wedding but the show went over time and had been scheduled to finish by 1pm," a Botanic Gardens spokeswoman said. "The last thing we wanted was for this to affect anyone's big day."
Meanwhile, her security team used decoy cars to distract from DeGeneres' activities but her Twitter fans took to the social media network to help track Team Ellen as she criss-crossed the city.
If producers were expecting their boss to go unnoticed for a Sunday stroll on a perfect day at the beach, they were mistaken. DeGeneres and de Rossi were mobbed from the minute they stepped from their chauffeur-driven car.
It is understood the TV star and her Aussie partner have been overwhelmed by the scale of DeGeneres' popularity here, while her production team has been caught unprepared for the media following her every move.
The intense interest in the Emmy winner was best illustrated when she tweeted a snapshot of herself beside a Moreton Bay fig, writing: "I never met a tree I didn't like." The innocuous image was then retweeted by more than 10,000 followers in less than five minutes.
The Ellen Express jets to Melbourne this morning with DeGeneres confirming she will meet fans at Birrarung Marr parklands (near Federation Square) on tomorrow.
She will also be guest of honour at a champagne cocktail party at Melbourne's Grand Hyatt hotel, to be hosted by Swisse ambassador and Channel 9's Mornings host Sonia Kruger.
But in a snub likely to upset Victorian fans, an Ellen spokesman confirmed the pair have scrapped plans to visit de Rossi's home town of Geelong.
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