Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Let's Have a Little Fun Today...Hey Heyyyyy

As you saw from my previous spoiler blog post, Ellen DeGeneres was in town at Universal. A few months back, I had some great timing, and I was fortunate enough to get tickets to The Ellen Show for her Spring Break show. I got super excited when we went to Mardi Gras at Universal Studios and saw the crew setting up the stage for the show and the stage where the concert takes place which is behind where we were sitting.

It was a Hot Set especially with 2 HOT chicks!

I must say the Ellen staff was phenomenal. Why you ask? Because they let me Breastfeed! Yup that's right! Our check in was at 12:00 and the taping didn't start until 3:00. As you know my issues with Flower Power NOT taking a bottle, I knew 8 hours away would not be a fun day for Mr.E or her. So we decided to take her along to feed her before check in and hopefully between check in and taping. Our first nicety was the security letting Mr.E and her in past the ticket gates, so I could feed her first. Once we got in, I asked Ellen's staff member Kate if I'd be able to leave the ticketed area to go feed FP. She said she wasn't sure, but would find out. I assumed she wouldn't and I'd have to hunt someone down after check in. Well Kate actually found me in the crowd later!!! And said it would be no problem. I'd just have to go through the metal detectors again....no big deal:) So Dena and I went in and had lunch. Yummy! That's what happens when you leave at 10:30 and have no time for real food ;)
I go to leave to breastfeed FP and the Universal security say NOOOO way! What my poor baby needs to eat and Ellen people said I could!!! So I go find 2 other Ellen staff since I couldn't find Kate. They were extremely nice and funny and said no problem :) I was so happy with their courtesy and friendliness that I even sent Ellen an email comment...wonder if I'll hear back ;) After getting back we headed into the taping. Dena had on a bright orange cute dress ( I think I was pretty cute too) and it ended up getting us the aisle seats on the very top row of the nice wooden chairs.
The taping was exactly like you see on TV (which will air on Wednesday, April 6). Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family and Kelly Clarkson were the guests. During the commercials there were dance offs and tshirt give a-ways. Here is Jeannie from the show.
When Ellen did her dancing she came right by us and danced for a bit! Hopefully it'll make it on TV! If it doesn't it's because the the camera was right behind us and it might be in the shot. I can't wait to see if it is on tv! For the Kelly Clarkson concert since the stage was behind us, we watched it on the big screen.
After Ellen went to talk with Kelly on stage, she came back through with Portia to our stage. Here they are and how close we were to them :)
Dena and I had a great time even if it was 800 degrees out! It'll be even better if we make it on TV :)

1 comment:

KellyS said...

Congrats again Robyn! I will remember to set my DVR so maybe I will catch you in the audience! Sounds like so much fun!