Australian TV host Neil Breen is dishing about his “bizarre” experience interviewing Ellen DeGeneres for Australia's “Today” show in 2013.<br />According to Fox News Breen had several complaints about interviewing Degeneres.<br />Among the complaints employees is that producers often had strict rules about interacting with her.<br />Ellen was initially going to co-host the morning talk show.<br />Producers kept changing the plans to the point where she would not even come to Sydney, where the show is filmed.<br />The whole crew had to fly to Melbourne, at the shows' expense, for the interview.<br />"They controlled the interview seats, the lights, how it would work, everything.”<br />Breen said Ellen's team told him "you don’t talk to her, you don’t approach her, you don’t look at her."<br />The host said he was shocked and questioned how they were supposed to interview her after coming all this way without looking her in the eye.<br />“I found the whole thing bizarre.”<br />He also said the producers of the show were pretend Ellen was hilarious and exaggerate their laughter to everything she said.<br />He eventually had to request that they be quiet for the sake of the interview.<br />"Someone get real.”
