Amanda Keller reveals the celebrity interview that still gives her nightmares
She’s a Gold Logie nominee with over 30 years in the entertainment industry, but even Amanda Keller admits she’s stuffed up when interviewing big name celebrities.
There’s one particular interview that the Living Room host “still has nightmares about” – and it was one she was most excited about.
“You know what was terrible was when I met my hero, Barry Manilow,” The Living Room star told news.com.au.
“I was in Vegas because my girlfriend and I, we’d loved him since we were at school and we thought when we were in our mid-40s that we should go to Vegas and see Barry for the sake of clinking a glass on our 30-year friendship.”
Amanda arranged an interview with the Copacabana singer while she was in town and took her girlfriend along for the chat.
“I had an out of body experience,” Amanda recalled. “It was terrible. I’ve got my head in my hands as I tell you this story.
“We were talking about fans going out of their way for him and I said, ‘what’s the weirdest thing a fan has given you?’ But then I said, ‘apart from herpes’. My friend looked at me like I’d gone insane and Barry looked at me with a face of disgust. I thought, ‘What’s happened?’ I’ve loved this man since I was 16 and I’ve just said the word herpes’.
“It’s like the devil spoke,” Amanda said. “It was so terrible. I tried to recover from it but not very well and it was just dreadful. I still have nightmares about it.”
Amanda is nominated for this year’s Gold Logie Award alongside Tracy Grimshaw, Jessica Marais, Grant Denyer, Andrew Winter and Rodger Corser.