• @[email protected]
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    3610 months ago

    I can confidently say that 90% of the people where I live have no idea who Oprah is. She’s not famous outside of the US, because, contrarly to singers, actors, sport stars… she doesn’t export anything.

    • Echo Dot
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      2310 months ago

      I think I know who we’re talking about. Is she the one from the “everyone gets a car” meme?

    • ANGRY_MAPLE
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      610 months ago

      I think I first learned about Opera from the one Episode of Drake and Josh. The episode when Josh freaked out because he ran over Opera with his car.

      Can’t say I’ve really heard much since, but I don’t exactly go looking either

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Pretty much. She is a rich nobody.

      I eventually looked up who she was out of curiosity a few years ago. No idea how she got rich (rich parents?) but tends to be weird foreign philanthropist who makes people act like they worship her in exchange for expensive gifts. Shrug. Still unknown here in Australia.

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        510 months ago

        I mean, she was the face of a pretty massive talk show for a long time. She was the housewife jimmy fallon.

        Do you consider any talk show host a nobody? Or just the ones on shows not aired in your country? Im sure theres plenty of famous auzzies and kiwis youve grown up seeing on tv that most people have never heard of, doesnt make them a nobody.

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        210 months ago

        From what I can remember she was mostly one of those whatever ellen was (not including when she was dory from finding Nemo)

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        210 months ago

        Nah, she was pretty poor growing up, she only became wealthy as a TV personality, literally became rich by becoming famous, if only mostly in the US.

    • @Mr_Blott
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      -610 months ago

      Sports stars? Come back to us when you can play real football and/or drive lol

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        510 months ago

        I don’t know what you are talking about. A lot of the best football players are from Europe, others are mostly from South America and Africa. Also F1 drivers are mostly Europeans.

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          I’m talking about the yanks. They have very few international sports stars because they can’t drive or play football