Ryan Seacrest makes his ‘Oprah’ debut, choppers down to Disneyland

Ryan Seacrest took a seat on Oprah Winfrey's couch for the very first time earlier Friday. The "American Idol" host talked about his feelings for Simon Cowell ("He's a terrific individual and one of the sweetest guys you'll ever meet in the business"), his thoughts on Ellen DeGeneres' performance thus far and ran through his insane daily schedule ("You know you're busy when you don't even realize your hair is being flat-ironed"). See video below (thanks for posting, MJ!).

In Part 2, Ryan's mom Connie appears, and all bear witness to a photo slide-show of Ryan as a tubby tween. "I am gonna let someone on my staff go this afternoon for releasing that photograph," he joked. But in all seriousness — and aptly so — Ryan's latest extracurricular project, a collaboration with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver called "Food Revolution," aims to get Americans to eat healthier. It premieres Friday night on ABC.

Though he's not one to get star struck (unless Brad and Angelina are involved), excitement clearly got the best of Ryan this morning when he tweeted, "On @oprah today, love her, she dropped by my dressing room in slippers and haircurlers, I had slippers and a flat iron."

Check out more of the "Oprah" clips here.

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Photo: Ryan Seacrest travels via helicopter to Disneyland, where he live-streamed an appearance by Justin Bieber. Credit: Twitpic

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