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Thursday 26 March 2009

Ellen DeGeneres Surprises Jennifer Hudson With Engagement Gift

Ellen Degeneres and Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson is in for quite a ride as she readies to wed fiance David Otunga.

On Thursday's Ellen DeGeneres Show, the talk show host presents Hudson with an engagement gift: A tandem bike.

"David is going to love this," Hudson says, adding that bike riding is one of their favorite activities.

"We're like big kids, so we like to ride bikes," she says.


"One thing I like to do is put my dog in her little basket and put her on my back and then we ride the bike to the dog park," says the singer, who has three Pomeranians.

Hudson also opens up to DeGeneres about her days working at a Burger King in her Chicago hometown. She says she quickly learned she could make more bucks belting out songs than flipping burgers.


"When I was 17-years-old, I worked at Burger King, and I found that I was making more money singing one show [for] $75," the Grammy winner says. "I thought it was a lot of money, so I decided, 'I'm quitting this Burger King - I'm going to make my living using my talents and gifts.' So my first option was to be, what I am now, a singer."

Before famously winning an Oscar, Hudson was a third season American Idol finalist. She taped a performance after the live broadcast for an Idol episode that will air at a later date.


She says if singing didn't work out, she always had a back-up plan.

"My second choice was to be a tattoo artist because I also draw," says Hudson.

Asked if she had any body art, Hudson cringes. "No," she tells DeGeneres,
"I don't have any."

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