Phil was on Oprah today! Seriously. Near the beginning of show (topic was adventure). He helped a woman face her fear of heights and chatted with Oprah for a bit. He promoted N.O.W. (No Opportunity Wasted, his Discovery Channel show). He did not mentioned The Amazing Race at all (that I heard anyway). I know it's late in the day but some people can still catch him!

I also caught Phil on Oprah and thank goodness he wasn't wearing on of those horrendous sweaters. He looked mighty fine. le sigh Also about NOW I think I could do a lot of things if I had Phil kidnap me and make me do it.

I think a lot of us here at TWoP would like the chance to be captured by Yummy Phil:)

I caught Phil on Oprah. He looked and sounded great. I did notice the absence of any mention of TAR. Oprah didn't even mention it as part of his credentials. Odd.

I wonder how far in advance Oprah tapes. I'd thought he'd be in final prep for the race.

my wife and I did Oprah a few years ago ("Greatest Love Stories") and we taped about 4 days ahead

Looks like CBS has a new promo photo of Phil which it is using in connection with the Fall 2004 schedule information at CBS.com: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/fall_preview_...ce/main_pic.jpg

Yeah, it's from their TAR6 page: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race6/

MMMM. Watched TES yesterday and got to hear Phil say the name of my town and state. Mispronounced Eugene, but said Oregon right and it gave me goosebumps. I'm drooling now. Did I say Yum?

Mispronounced Eugene or just said it with a Kiwi accent. ?
:)

Speaking of which, we have a nice plethora of -a names for Phil's lovely accent to Kiwi-ize. Linder, Charler, Mirner, Eriker ... mmmmm.

I am a Kiwi too :D

Don't forget Marsher.

Phil must be keeping very busy these days...with TAR6 filming around the corner and his new show NOW..No Opportunity Wasted. There was an article in Advertising Age on "Kinder, gentler reality TV" which they dubbed wish fulfillment shows. The first 1/3 of the article was about NOW and they had a big picture of Phil smack-dab in the middle of the page.

DAMN! I've been crossing my name off the routing slip for Advertising Age (no time to read it) when I get it after the boss reads it. Which issue date has that article/picture, parks? I'm going to retrieve it and steal it!

It was the May 31st edition.

I too don't always take time to read it, just happen to come across it!

I wish it was just the Kiwi accent. Everyone who doesn't live here mispronounces it- the emphasis is on "gene" not "eu". I'm not complaining though, at least I got the opportunity to hear him say it. Now, if he'd just say my name...

Thanks, parks. Not surprisingly, I found the issue in my Amazing Mail Pile. I thought I might have sent it on already to the next person on the routing slip, but in fact it was buried under mountains of crap.

Phil in all his loveliness is now sitting on my desk. I've been bugging my Discovery Channel rep to get me some promotional materials for No Opportunity Wasted. I'm still waiting.....

Well, I'm living for the moment I hear Phil say "AW-reh-gonnne" and I get to holler "It's ORYgun, Phil, ORYgun!" But I'll be hollering with love. Even Walter Cronkite used to say it wrong, so it's not Phil's fault.

It could be worse, Red Targetter, he could say 'OR-ay-gan', which always makes me wonder when they added Oregano as the 51st state.

Here's what I always say to these situations: if we're supposed to prounounce all place names the way the residents do, we'd be calling Paris Paree, and what non-completely pretentious person wants to do that? Still, I've always said EU-gene and I've never even been there.

Boy, pretty off topic. So, I guess I'll just say I'm excited about NOW and hope it's a hit.

Most Australian/New Zealanders pronounce Oregon properly, in my experience. Sometimes its more like Ahr-y-gun. But I consider that to be a difference in accent - not a mispronunciation.

I'd agree with you Eegah if we were discussing foreign localities. But if it's in the U.S., everyone should attempt to pronounce it properly. And if I were speaking in French - I would pronounce Paris with (my attempt at) a French accent. Color me pretentious, I guess.

On to other matters - there's a blurb in the current Budget Traveler on Phil. The caption touts both Amazing Race and No Oppotunity Wasted. And the blurb itself is on a restaurant in Auckland, which says he visits when he's there. It's called Thunderburgers, for anyone who's interested. And slightly spoilerish - it says he took some of The Amazing Race crew there. Now that could mean previously, or this race....

And did I mention the nice photo of Phil . . . ?

I thought the new rule is that if it's in published media, Enrico, it's not a spoiler? But I thought Miss Alli was trying to basically eliminate the need for spoiler bars in any thread since all spoiler material would go in the spoiler thread.

Color me confused and in need of more caffeine this morning, after all this deep thinking.

Oh, and I've always said Eu-GENE, but I lived in Oregon as a kid so probably have an advantage.

Oh my, I didn't mean to start a conversation about how to pronounce Eugene. I didn't really care that Phil said it the way he said it, I was happy that he said it. I know that when I was in Australia I didn't pronounce very much correctly- except for Mooloolaba. I have to thank Phil for that!

Phil shows up on Extra! today and is shown holding a microphone on camera listening to Erika from the Apprentice answering some question or other asked off camera on the red carpet at the Entertainment Weekly function that Frat Kevin told us about. (No sign of either of them, though) and the Extra anchor did give a plug to TAR 5's premiere.

The Amazing Race Insider is up at the CBS TAR page, and along with contestant interviews and the first few minutes of Phil arriving on a boat (Paris had the right hunch after all), there's an interview with Phil in which he talks about a doctor "jabbing me in the butt with a double dose of,uh,uh.. (think fast, Phil)...Vitamin B."

There's also a nice shout-out to people coming up and saying, "Can you philiminate me?" Didn't that start here on TWOP?

Mama Tiger, Phil's been doing that with folks since at least before his first TARcon (TARcon 3); it was a topic of discussion with the attendees then IIRC.

I noticed in the two video clips with Phil on the CBS.com web site that he seems to have stolen Ryan Seacrest's hair. I hope I'm wrong, but it really does look like Ryan's hair!

I'm curious who coined the term "philiminate," however. Was that word used elsewhere or did it originate on TAR? That's what I was talking about, which I clearly expressed badly.

Mama Tiger, I think there's more than one origin of the term "Philimination."

Phil even has one of his own, that occurred just after 9/11. Check this interview with Phil from TARflies, third question from the end.

Which makes you wonder, was it used here first before or around 9/11, or somewhere else, since Phil himself was using it so early on. It doesn't strike me that Phil would have coined it and used it himself -- it seems just too egotistical for him.

I'm enjoying the TAR insider very much, esp. the interviews with Phil. Cute, smart and funny. Is he so wonderful because the show is so great? Does the his amazingness rub off on the show? Is is just beautiful synchronicity? I'll just sit here and quitely ponder . . .

I totally agree, nck. I wish they'd let him talk spontaneously more on the show -- he's so charming!

I finally had a chance to watch all of the clips. My heart still belongs to Phil - but not to the massive amounts of gel in his hair. Maybe too much gel is the new butt-ugly sweater. But that reminds me - mmmm, butt-jabbing.

Drooling aside, I liked how relaxed Phil looked. He was sitting on a plastic chair, for dogsakes. Hell, he can do that on my patio with a decent glass of microbrew if he likes.

I believe some of the TAR1 racers came up with it around the middle of the season. My favorite part of the anecdote, though, was that with all the people asking him to philiminate them, no one has asked him to tell them that they've won! If I ever get to TARcon, I'll be sure to ask him that.

Phil's statement about the origin of "philimination" is very early on timewise. TAR 1 premiered September 5, 2001 (just six days before 9/11) and the second episode didn't air until the 19th. While Miss Alli used the term at some early point in her season one recaps as well, IIRC, she's not accepted responsibility for coining the word, though I suspect she may be the first person to use it in a published writing.

My recollection is that the TAR1 racers told us that their nickname for Phil was "the Philiminator." That's my memory. I like to think we made it more popular, heh, but no, it was not us originally.

My boyfriend and I were talking about TAR today and he had the nerve to call Phil "that wierd host," presumably because he doesn't do as much as other reality TV hosts. I was so offended. No one talks about Phil that way.

I can't wait to hear Phil talk about the fast forward being "most advantageous" again. Whee!

I'm looking forward to Phil's first explanation of the Yield rule, because it'll sound so memorable and...oh, I just want to hear him say it. Also I'm curious what turn of phrase they'll come up with that we'll hear every time the Yield is used.

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Phil's on Oprah! I don't know if this is a rerun or new, I just stumbled across it. It's a show about 'meeting your fears' - a bit of a promo for NOW.

On teasing us about the Yield, when he whips his head around looking for teams, he has good reason. He is sitting about 10 feet away from where Charla and Mirna had their picture taken for the first promo.

Playing with my new computer, I made a video file of Phil's appearance on Oprah. I missed the first bit because I was running into the room to find a tape. Also, the quality at the beginning is horrid because I hadn't adjusted the antenna for that channel yet. (Yes, I have no cable.) Anyway, you can view the 11M .wmv here.

He was on Craig Kilborn tonight. Apparently, he's drank cobra's blood. Ew. Caught the segment in-progress but caught the plug for TAR which drew great applause (or maybe it was for Phil).

Apparently Phil's Kiwi accent is not a pure Kiwi accent. He mentioned on Kilborn tonight that he grew up in the Caribbean and lived in Canada, or rather, Canader, for a while!

Miri has put up a trancript of the closed captionning on TARFlies.

I never knew Phil had lived in Canada! I guess I'll have something to ask him at the next TARCon other than: "Can I get your picture"?

Someone at the last Toronto TWoPcon told me Phil used to live in Guelph. It was probably Loraxe - she knows everything :) He sure didn't pick up that accent in Guelph.

I remember talking to Phil about this the morning after TARcon 2. (Heh. That makes it sound like we spent the night together.) He said he used to live in Guelph, of all the random places. Then he put on his best Canadian accent and said: "Let's go get some beers, eh!"

Screen grabs and a .wmv of Phil on the Kilborn show! (Sorry the .wmv is so large. I'm still learning how to make videos on my new computer with this new software - lost all the presets I had on the old one!)

eta: oh, sorry about the wacky moment towards the end where the picture goes crazy. My kitten Mishka had knocked the antenna over.

Mmm. Phil is really into the beers. I wonder what his favorite beer was when he lived in Canada?

In those sceen-caps, Phil appears to be wearing a normal-person shirt and jeans. Is this a good sign? Can we hope for a lack of my-granny-knit-this sweaters? Or perhaps even less?

Show us your stompers, Phil!