Comedian and Talk Show Host Ellen DeGeneres created a lot of ruckus in the Corvallis area on the afternoon of Saturday, May 17 after sending out a tweet that read “I hear Oregon is beautiful this time of year. I also hear something fun is gonna happen at @OregonStateUniv on Wed. Now you heard it too.” That tweet lit up Twitter and eventually made its way to Facebook.
There was speculation all weekend and into Monday that she was going to be in Corvallis promoting Coldplay’s new album. She confirmed late Monday that she will not be at OSU on Monday but will be in her studio interacting with OSU students via satellite.
On Wednesday, she finally disclosed everything. It turned out that she really sent her correspondent, Jeannie Klisiewicz, to Oregon State University in Corvallis to give away money to five lucky people in the crowd. The theme for the show was “Worst Dressed Dad” in honor of Father’s Day which is on June 15. By 2 p.m. Wednesday nearly 2,000 people, mostly students, flocked to the shows set which was located on the Memorial Union Quad on campus. Before taping started at about 3:30 p.m. Ellen’s correspondent went through the crowd looking for five people that were the worst dressed. Once she selected them she brought them inside the barricades and spoke to them. There were two segments the OSU was included in on the show. In the first segment the five selected people were told by Ellen to search for the JC Penney boxes which inside had cash, there was five boxes total, the five chosen people had seven minutes to find the boxes. In the second segment the five lucky people, who each got a box, opened them to see how much money the won. Ellen DeGeneres, with the help of JC Penney, gave away $17,000 total. One box had $10,000, one had $5,000, one had $1,000 and the two others each had $500.
Last weeks Ellen DeGeneres Show taping was the first time in 3½ years that a national TV show has come to Corvallis, Oregon. On Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 ESPN College Gameday set up shop in the Memorial Union Quad to broadcast their three hour college football pre-game show live from OSU’s campus. Roughly 6,000 people showed up for that event, ESPN was there to cover the annual Civil War game between the Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State Beavers. Oregon won the Civil War that year topping Oregon State 37-20.
The OSU episode of the Ellen DeGeneres show will air on Wednesday, May 28 on NBC. If you receive Portland stations the show runs at 3 p.m. on KGW. If you are in the Eugene viewing area then the show will run at 4 p.m. on KMTR.
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