We had a really great weekend in Hollywood. Saturday was a good day as we just spent most of it walking around, exploring. We walked down Sunset Blvd for a while, then back onto Hollywood Blvd. Then for the rest of the day we watched the Oscars get set up. There were loads of stand-ins for the stars rehearsing the red carpet walk. Staff with big signs hanging from their necks reading “George Clooney”, “Zac Efron” and “Matt Damon” walked up and down for a while, pretending to pose for pictures!
On Sunday, we watched Alice In Wonderland in 3D. It is a great film, and Stephen Fry (who plays the Chesire Cat in it) was very good. We highly recommend it. After that we made our way down to the Kodak Theatre to join the screaming mob at the Oscars. We weren’t expecting the security we encountered. Before we could even get within a 1/2 mile radius of the Red Carpet we were security checked, one by one. We managed to get a bit of a view through a heavily fenced off pavement and we saw some stars walk in. After a while we thought it would be better to watch on TV, so we went back to the hotel and watched the whole ceremony. It was good to watch it at a normal time and not at 4am (which is when we used to watch it in the UK). The right people won I think.
This morning we were back to work with an early start. Well, I got up early. Toby and Ben got to stay in bed!! Not fair! But anyway, I got up to do two radio interviews and there are some more this afternoon. There should be some newspaper articles coming out over the next few days, and then tomorrow we are going to NBC with Stephen Fry to record an interview for TV…so that should be fun!
I’ll keep you updated!








