Angela Bishop reveals her Oscars red carpet secret

The Studio 10 co-host has revealed what prop she waves around on the Oscars red carpet to lure celebrities over for an interview.

The Oscars red carpet is one of the most competitive places on earth for entertainment reporters.

Hundreds of journalists from around the world who are lucky enough to get accreditation stand shoulder to shoulder on the side of the carpet, all jostling for position and all desperate to lure a celebrity over for a quick chat.

Angela Bishop has braved the Oscars red carpet roughly 15 times during her stellar career and has managed to secure interviews with some of the world’s biggest stars each year.

Look how packed the media area is. Picture: Christopher Polk/Getty Images

So how does she do it?

The Channel 10 entertainment editor and Studio 10 co-host told news.com.au’s podcast, From the Newsroom, that her secret weapon is a small prop.

“One of the other things I’ve found most successful over the years, and it sounds silly, is that if I wave an Australian flag that I take with me to these red carpets, for starters you attract all the Australians that you want to speak to because they see it out of the corner of their eye and are immediately drawn to it – but you also just get that inherent love that people have for Australia,” Bishop said. “I just say ‘Australia’ and someone like Helen Mirren will wander over because she just likes the place.”

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The Aussie flag doesn’t always work though, which means Bishop has to do what all the other reporters do – yell.

“There’s no two ways about it, you do end up screaming like a banshee and looking like something quite feral,” she told From the Newsroom. “Often it’s the yell that does the trick and I can be quite dulcet in my tones when I have to be.”

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Very few entertainment reporters are allowed into the Oscars afterparties, but Bishop was lucky enough to be invited to the 21st Century Fox after-party in 2019.

“That … was the Oscars when Rami Malek won best Actor for Bohemian Rhapsody,” she explained. “It was a very star studded event.

“I’d been following the boys from Queen – Brian May and Roger Taylor as well as Rami Malek – throughout the awards season as they won all the way through. Bless their cotton socks, Brian and Roger recognised me at the party and called me into the little VIP area and said, ‘come on, you’ve been as much a part of all this as we have, come in and have some champagne’.”

Angela Bishop with Queen’s Brian May and actor Rami Malek.

When asked if it was a wild evening, Bishop laughed and said: “I’m sure they were wilder back in the heyday of their rock star days, but they were so genuinely thrilled to have recognition for this film that they’d put their heart and soul into. It was certainly lots of fun!”

You can follow news.com.au’s comprehensive live coverage of the Oscars on Monday morning