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Sisters recount backstage ‘Oprah’ experience
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As local sisters Kristy O’Conner and Kasey Osborne-Lumpp recently discovered, things are a bit different behind the scenes in television. On Tuesday, fresh from their appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” televised Monday, the sisters detailed some of the more unanticipated moments backstage at “Oprah” earlier this month.
You’ll recall that with a lot of help from Atlantans, O’Conner and Osborne-Lumpp transformed their two $1,000 Bank of America gift cards given to them last month by the talk show queen into a whopping $200,000 for My Sister’s House, a local shelter. The results of Oprah’s “Pay It Forward” challenge aired Monday.
Osborne-Lumpp told Buzz that she and her sister resisted when “Oprah” producers attempted to provide them with talking points prior to their on-air encounter with Winfrey. “We both felt very strongly about speaking from our hearts,” Osborne-Lumpp, a marketing rep, told Buzz.
The sisters were also puzzled when a producer suggested that they round up the amount of money they raised to $225,000.
“I honestly have no idea what the motivation there was,” Osborne-Lumpp said. ” I asked them, ‘Seriously, is $200,000 not enough for you?’ I was beside myself. “
Osborne-Lumpp says Winfrey herself was cordial and kind.
“During the commercial break, she asked if we had enjoyed our experience and if we felt the power of giving.”
When we rang Winfrey’s reps. in Chicago Tuesday to request an interview with a producer, we were asked to fax the request. At presstime, we had not received a response to our fax.
Osborne-Lumpp said the main reason the sisters opted to talk to the media Tuesday to give proper credit to and to thank Q100 listeners (On “Oprah,” it was referred to as “a local radio station”), Kroger shoppers and the many local folks who united to raise the funds.
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