LIVE! With Regis and Chilly
Blog by Dina Pugliese, Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Igloos and Dogsleds and Mounties OH MY!
So I wake up on Victoria Day feeling great…I pour myself a big bowl of cereal - cozy up to the tube and and bam! Regis and Kelly managed to do the unthinkable - the usually amusing twosome put me in a funk by going LIVE from Niagara Falls, Ontario. It was (figuratively and literally) all downhill from there.
I was expecting some cheerful morning banter, witty interviews, you know, the usual…instead - there was an onslaught of stereotypes that only served to reinforce every ridiculous misconception about us Canucks to every American watching.
First off - it's late May and due to a weird cold snap courtesy mother nature - the weather was unusually chilly and damp. Fine……but how do the Reg and more importantly, Kelly react? By wearing parkas, gloves and fleece blankets…I repeat - BLANKETS!
What's worse? It's all Kelly could talk about - she went on and on the entire time about how cold it was - shivering uncontrollably and saying "cold enough for you? This is their summer."
Okay kel - this is where my Alberta Grade A BEEF begins with you.
Before I go any further - I need to make one thing clear - I adore Kelly Ripa….I think she's adorable and funny as hell and if my feet were half the size they are, I'd dream of raiding her jimmy choo collection.
That said - she ticked me off.
Here's why - Kelly has visited Toronto a gazillion times before - I know this because that's where her hot hubby Marc Consuelos shot his TV show, Missing.
She knows plenty about weather in Toronto = pretty much the same deal as New York.
There is no reason why she had to carry on about our freezing summers when she knows it was an atypical day. It's absolutely maddening.
Now it's bad that I feel the need to ream her out like this - she really looked cold and probably didn't mean to stand there and complain but WHY, WHY must it always be that way?
And why do I care so much?
Anytime someone visits our country for the first time and the weather isn't co-operating (ie. Bitterly cold or snowy or all of the above) I become weather ambassador - I was guilty of it just last week.
Italian hottie and TV chef Giada DeLaurentiis was in the t-dot to promote her new cookbook and was shocked at how 'cold' it was….don't worry I set her straight.
See - this is where we need to unite as a people…always accused of being wishy-washy in politics and such, it is time to stand up for our country and spread the word - like I'm doing in this BLOG. We have four glorious seasons - we wear shorts - turtlenecks are not required 12 months of the year and no - we don't live in igloos or carve ice sculptures for fun....we live in an incredible country that's pretty much crime-free, hurricane-free, earthquake-free…you get the idea - not to jinx it, but we've got it pretty darn good and we've got plenty to be proud of….a couple of snowfalls a year is nothing to complain about - I'd take that over a tornado ripping my house apart or my country leader causing wars any day!
This is why I get so defensive when our American friends come in for a day and poke fun….and quite frankly - all of this venting has left me terribly hungry…I'm going to go grab some comfort food and get on with my day.
Poutine anyone?
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