From today's National Post ...
Ben Mulroney and George Stroumboulopoulos are the ying and the yang, possibly even the Salt N Peppa of Canadian television. And now, according to something that the latter let slip recently, it turns out George was actually supposed to be Ben!
While doing a guerilla-style online video interview with the Web site The Stroumboulopouli, the host of CBC's The Hour strongly insinuates that he turned down a job at Canadian Idol.
Musing on his career track, the so-called Strombo, who certainly doesn't have Ben's cufflink collection, had this to say: "I mean, I took that show in the States and it bombed, and it was an amazing experience, and I was offered a show that's a huge show here now and I turned it down. And people said to me 'that's the biggest show in Canadian history, why don't you do that show?' "
In a later interview with yet another Web site, insidethecbc. com, Strombo denied having been approached about Canadian Idol, though he didn't say what the aforementioned biggest show could be.
- - - - Shinan Govani
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