OMFG. The stupid hurts.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,26217319-5014090,00.html
Lack of kangaroos at airports 'shocked Kristen Bell'
MEMO to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Tourism Australia: Please send more kangaroos to Australia's international airports.
American tourists are disappointed. Particularly Hollywood starlets.
Kristen Bell, a member of the all-star voice cast of new animated film Astro Boy, has just returned to Los Angeles after a promotional tour in Australia.
The actress, who plays the Peter Pan-like orphan Cora alongside characters voiced by Nicolas Cage, Charlize Theron, Freddie Highmore and Nathan Lane, says she was disappointed when she landed in Sydney.
”I, like every other stupid American, assumed the kangaroos would meet us at the airport and they would want to hug us as much as we wanted to hug them,” Bell said in an interview in Los Angeles.
”That's really the perspective we have here.
”Going there kind of opened my eyes that that's not the case.”
The 29-year-old, who shot to stardom in 2004 in the TV series Veronica Mars, is a cast member of the new series Gossip Girl and stars with Vince Vaughn in the American box office's number one comedy, Couples Retreat, did get to meet some of Australia's fury friends during a VIP tour of Taronga Zoo.
”We did get a backstage tour of the zoo and got to see some of the marsupials they reared there,” Bell says.
”I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day.
”They're little druggies.”
The actress made headlines recently when she revealed she is so picky with her food she always packs plenty of her American favourites when she travels abroad.
She did not have to worry while in Australia, dining at Icebergs at Bondi and feasting on pizzas from restaurant Made in Italy.
”I loved Australian food,” Bell says.
Yeah, you see, Sydney has 6 million people living in it. It's a CITY. Wild animals that live in a bush environment DO NOT wander around city environments waiting for you to hug them. No, really. They don't. They much prefer to live in their natural habitat where they have ready access to food and where there aren't annoying people around to disturb them. You want to see kangaroos? Go to the zoo. Or the bush. Or Canberra :)
Lack of kangaroos at airports 'shocked Kristen Bell'
MEMO to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Tourism Australia: Please send more kangaroos to Australia's international airports.
American tourists are disappointed. Particularly Hollywood starlets.
Kristen Bell, a member of the all-star voice cast of new animated film Astro Boy, has just returned to Los Angeles after a promotional tour in Australia.
The actress, who plays the Peter Pan-like orphan Cora alongside characters voiced by Nicolas Cage, Charlize Theron, Freddie Highmore and Nathan Lane, says she was disappointed when she landed in Sydney.
”I, like every other stupid American, assumed the kangaroos would meet us at the airport and they would want to hug us as much as we wanted to hug them,” Bell said in an interview in Los Angeles.
”That's really the perspective we have here.
”Going there kind of opened my eyes that that's not the case.”
The 29-year-old, who shot to stardom in 2004 in the TV series Veronica Mars, is a cast member of the new series Gossip Girl and stars with Vince Vaughn in the American box office's number one comedy, Couples Retreat, did get to meet some of Australia's fury friends during a VIP tour of Taronga Zoo.
”We did get a backstage tour of the zoo and got to see some of the marsupials they reared there,” Bell says.
”I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day.
”They're little druggies.”
The actress made headlines recently when she revealed she is so picky with her food she always packs plenty of her American favourites when she travels abroad.
She did not have to worry while in Australia, dining at Icebergs at Bondi and feasting on pizzas from restaurant Made in Italy.
”I loved Australian food,” Bell says.
Yeah, you see, Sydney has 6 million people living in it. It's a CITY. Wild animals that live in a bush environment DO NOT wander around city environments waiting for you to hug them. No, really. They don't. They much prefer to live in their natural habitat where they have ready access to food and where there aren't annoying people around to disturb them. You want to see kangaroos? Go to the zoo. Or the bush. Or Canberra :)