Cross-Eyed Opossum To Predict 2011 Oscar Winners

BERLIN — Heidi, Germany's beloved cross-eyed opossum, is taking a page from Paul the Octopus' playbook: the marsupial will attempt to pick this year's Oscar winners.

Leipzig Zoo Director Joerg Junghold told Germany's RTL television on Friday that Heidi will be appearing on the "Jimmy Kimmel Show" alongside the Oscars on Feb. 27.

He isn't revealing much about the show but says: "quite similar to Paul, it will be about tips." He says Heidi will be filmed in Germany over the next few days for the U.S. show.

Junghold says Heidi's appearance fee will be donated to an animal protection charity.

Paul correctly predicted the outcome of all seven German games at last year's World Cup plus the Spain-Netherlands final from an aquarium in Oberhausen. He died in October.

Comments

[Rich Phitzwell]

03:08 PM on 02/13/2011

Right after the Oscars on the food network is a new episode of "Deep South Cooking " Opossum Soup followed by "Frugal Road Kill Eats"

[gypsysailor]

12:17 PM on 02/13/2011

No chin. Must be related to Mitch McConnell.

[cjohnathan]

03:05 AM on 02/13/2011

Fame was hard on paul the octopus- he died just months after the world cup- hope this isn't a death sentence for this poor creature...

[natturnerx]

08:53 AM on 02/13/2011

i think average possum life expectancy is about 1 year, so it would just be a matter of months anyway.

http://www.suite101.com/content/animal-life-spans-a25804

[LMPE]

12:41 AM on 02/13/2011

the possum-bilities are limitless

[ATomCat3]

03:15 AM on 02/13/2011

naw, just opossium of the masses.

[mrk65]

12:35 AM on 02/13/2011

Personally, I'm sick of seeing this ugly animal, way too frequently, on the Front Page. Yuck!

[peacekitten]

08:51 AM on 02/13/2011

go away.

she's adorable.

you, not so much.

[Modest1981]

11:04 PM on 02/12/2011

Love it.

[scooperss]

11:03 PM on 02/12/2011

michelle bachmann?

[peacekitten]

08:52 AM on 02/13/2011

how can you insult this poor possum that way?  the possum is cute, sweet and harmless.

the same cannot be said of .b.a.c.h.m..an.n., who should never appear in public without a handler who keeps a tranquilizer dart handy.

[Delaware22]

09:59 PM on 02/12/2011

Too cute!

[Last Gasp]

09:52 PM on 02/12/2011

awwww sorry to hear paul died.

[Stefan Bast]

10:48 PM on 02/12/2011

He died after a plentyful and long life, at least after the standards of his species.

[Red45]

09:41 PM on 02/12/2011

Possums are people, too.

[ran6110]

02:31 PM on 02/13/2011

Yup, read the story about the kid that tried to hire a hit man on facebook and you'll see they are smarter than some humans also!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/12/pa-teen-admits-to-trying-_n_822387.html

[MerryW]

09:24 PM on 02/12/2011

Heidi is way cute; but, why the bad photoshop on her mouth ? or is her bottom jaw deformed ?

[YankeeCanuck]

01:26 AM on 02/13/2011

She's sticking her tongue out. That means someone will not get an Oscar!

[MerryW]

10:11 AM on 02/13/2011

So she is :-) Thanks.

[Transverseangle]

08:28 PM on 02/12/2011

Folks, this is for fun and the proceeds goes to an animal charity. But Heidi is cute.

[Andy Scatterbrain]

08:04 PM on 02/12/2011

Oh, its black and white and cute and fuzzy! I love it!

[jwinps]

07:17 PM on 02/12/2011

I think she's adorable!

[jcarterla]

06:40 PM on 02/12/2011

I suddenly remembered that I forgot to watch Watch What Happens Live! this week.