On Air with Ryan Seacrest 2010-08-05
What’s Ryan smiling about?
Ellen has a new addiction: @trendfacts. She told Ryan that apples are more efficient than caffeine for keeping you awake in the morning. Ryan asked all the right questions to get a little quantification going on for ‘more efficient’ and ‘caffeine’, but then longing took over:
I do love apples. Now I love the sensation, the feeling of something warm trickling down the back of my tongue and going toward the threshold of my esophagus and rolling inside my stomach and settling.
Which was followed by the intriguing “Apples remind me of sex.”
Ryan’s audition
Ryan talked about his own American Idol audition. Nigel and Ken came over to Burbank and met with Ryan in the conference room at the radio station he worked for at the time. Ryan was recording commercials when they arrived and was trying to remember which was which. He explained that their first conversations were about the possibility of Ryan as a judge, though we all know how that turned out. Incidentally, I love how Ellen sounds surprised when Ryan tells stories that she’s heard before; it keeps things sounding fresh. Ryan went on to talk about an exchange between Nigel and Adam Shankman on last night’s So You Think You Can Dance. Proposition 8 was overturned yesterday and Adam marked it by asking Nigel to marry him!
Ryan assumes an unlikely role
Ryan put a little pressure on himself by flipping his role in Finish the Lyric at the last minute … he’s such a pro!
Ryan lends a hand
photo: Lori Greig
Someone called in to ask for Ryan’s advice because she had promised to hire a limousine for her sister’s Quinceañera in September, but has been getting fewer hours at work and can’t afford it. She feels like crying because she doesn’t want to disappoint her sister.
Ryan initially said they have a bunch of E! News vans — though he wasn’t sure that would give off the same vibe — then conferred with Dennis about the company they use for ‘Pimp my Prom’ and told the caller that they’d provide a free limo for her sister’s Quinceañera.
So it was happy ending for the caller and her sister! That was so nice of Ryan, Dennis and whoever it was on Ryan’s team that filtered the call through to him.
Adam Shankman
Adam, fresh from asking for Nigel Lythgoe’s hand in marriage yesterday, talked to Ryan about Step Up 3D and directing Glee — possibly the Michael Jackson episode.
Julie Chen
Julie talked to Ryan about her new talk show and Big Brother.
Jeanie Buss
Ryan likes the way Jeanie strokes his hair …
