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Finola
on the Oprah Winfrey Show, March 3, 2004
"The Celebrity Spouse
Challenge"
Images
and text by MinaL
"Our first celebrity spouse
challenge. An E.T. reporter makes her husband work the
red carpet. Then, mom's gone -- will the NFL dad
fumble or score? Clint Black goes where he's never
gone before. Plus, can a handsome TV host survive the
kitchen? And a pampered soap star pitches a tent?
Famous couples face-off on Wednesday's Oprah."-
episode description from www.oprah.com
Finola's
hubby of 11 years, Russell
Young, challenges her to "rough it" in their
backyard for the evening. "Camping is my worst
nightmare," the fashion queen proclaims.
With
rain dropping, Fin struggles with the tent-
"Okay, this really sucks!" She states that
she hates reading instructions, ad-libbing
"helpful tent hints- a) go somewhere where it's
not raining," then adds with a grin, "b)
don't do it on television." But after an hour and
a half, she manages to finally get the tent up and
waves at her hubby, who's watching her from the patio
of their home.
Cold and
now in the dark, Finola has to get the fire going and
cook the freeze dried pasta. "Oh, so I've got to
read how to start a fire. Great. Warning. Everything
begins with a warning," she states sarcastically.
An hour later, the fire's going and water boiling.
After mixing the water into the pasta mix, Finola
grimaces, "I don't think I'm going to eat
that."
Questioned
by Oprah about how it was, Finola laughs, "It was
horrible!" She then confesses to cheating by
sneaking into the house at 5:30 that morning.
"She did, for a cup of tea," Russell
confirms. When asked if he was impressed, Russell
responded, "Incredibly impressed. I thought she'd
be in in 5 minutes. So we're going around the world
now, camping for the next year or so." Oprah
asked her if she'd ever do it again, and Finola
quickly retorts, "Never! Ever! Never!" Oprah
also teases her about her Louis Vitton bag which
Finola claimed contained Vogue and Cosmopolitan
magazines. "To find out what to wear when you're
camping," Finola jokes.
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