Sam isn’t sitting around chatting with a group friends, she is broadcasting on national television to a huge audience over which she has a substantial degree of influence. She shouldn’t be making any sort of comment or recommendation or whatever you want to call it.
And the issue isn’t just the comments she made (which fly in the face of basic journalistic standards) but the fact that her ego is too big to say “sorry, that’s just my opinion and you should always follow your doctors advice instead of mine”.
Of course the journos were eagerly awaiting to pounce on this segment from Sunrise this morning to make fun of it rather than focusing on proper news stories and other more important matters…
They do, every half hour and plenty between 6:00 and 7:30. But of course the only things they notoriously get known for are stunts like this which really don’t constitute much of the show at all…
I always wonder why whenever Sunrise have the big stars in at Brekky Central, they always remove the comfortable couch and force the stars to sit on the less comfortable stools, similar to the ones the hosts sat on in their studio in Pyeongchang recently for the Winter Olympics. I don’t know why they always do this, go for the cheap option when the big name stars come in and make the studio look more empty I suppose. They did this for John Boyega yesterday & David Duchovny today and other similar stars in recent times. Anyone got any ideas?
I’m not sure those big wide shots would work with the couch. It provides a bit of visual variation anyway which I quite like and the stools can’t be too bad given they spend most of the show perched on them anyway.
My personal theroy: they do it to increase the “exclusive” look - By removing all the furniture from the set (desk included) it makes it look more special maybe and puts the star in the spotlight rather than the set?
I personally agree with you though, it is strange and probably uncomfortable.
As a sidenote, apparently Sunrise/Eddy has been banned from the Oscars red carpet on Monday yet they have been saying on the show and in the promos that they will be there:
Also Freddie Highmore will be on the show live at Brekky Central next week when he is in Australia.
