Remember Paul? The octopus who predicted the soccer World Cup results. Well, meet Heidi, the cross-eyed opossum who predicted winners for this years Oscars. She came up one pick sort of perfectly predicting the top Oscar awards. She’s a little bit creepy, but cute.
The 2-1/2-year-old opossum correctly predicted Natalie Portman (“Black Swan“) to win best actress and Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech“) as best actor during a series of appearances on the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show on U.S. broadcaster ABC last week.
Heidi became a star in Germany when her photo appeared in the mass-circulation newspaper Bild in December, but her international following has blossomed, including a Facebook following of about 320,000.
Heidi predicted the winners by placing her paw on an Oscar statuette with the actor’s photo on it. She took her time deciding even kapping a kip in between. Hm, seems slightly gimmicky to me, especially since “a German-made plush toy of the marsupial was included in some Oscar gift bags available to high-profile guests.” Plus, both the octopus and the opossum come from Germany.
[ Source: Edmonton ]
