After years of working on television, Lisa Wilkinson has interviewed plenty of Hollywood stars. While chatting to celebrities may seem exciting, the presenter has had her fair share of lousy interviews.
You’d think being a Hollywood star with bucket-loads of money and hoards of fans would keep you happy, but Sophia Loren was apparently less than friendly when she sat down for a chat with the TV favourite.
Speaking to News.com.au on Friday, the then-Today host revealed the Italian actress — known as one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood — was an hour and a half late and simply “didn’t want to be there”.
“Sophia Loren is probably the person I’ve been the least impressed by,” she told the publication. “Talk about a person not wanting to be in the room. I should have taken the hint when she turned up an hour and a half late!”
Lisa continued: “I thought, naively, that I’d be able to warm her up because I was so excited about interviewing this icon of the movie industry, but she didn’t want to be there and tragically I did, so I think the results were quite sad. She decided very early on that I was not good enough to be interviewing her.”
Lisa isn’t the first presenter to have a bad experience with a celebrity. In 2018, TV star Andrew Denton told 97.3 FM’s Bianca, Terry and Bob that American actress Goldie Hawn was his worst guest ever and described her as both “bad” and “unpleasant” to interview. In fact, the interview was such a disaster, he decided against airing their awkward chat, and to this day it’s never been televised.
“Maybe she was having a really bad day and it was via satellite, but she was so bad and so unpleasant,” he said. He added that Hawn’s management team was also awful, saying, “[they] called our producer the ‘c’ word. It was just an awful experience. We just thought, ‘we’re not putting you onto air and goodbye’.”
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