Michelle Obama DANCES UP A STORM to ‘Uptown Funk’ on Ellen Show

Telegraph (UK): “Michelle Obama has long been an advocate of exercise as she tries to get America fit with her Let’s Move campaign, and now the First Lady has been impressing her nation – and the rest of the world – with her dance moves.

She appeared as a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote her latest initiative – Gimme 5 – in which she asks celebrities and ordinary US citizens to give her five examples of ways they are leading a healthy life.

The First Lady revealed that she had enlisted the help of a group of choreographers to come up with a special dance routine, which she will perform at next month’s annual White House Easter Egg Roll.

She then challenged DeGeneres to a dance-off, which Ellen happily accepted, as she joked: “Listen, I’m in better shape than you!”

“I got the dance steps the same time you got the dance steps so don’t even try it,” the First Lady countered.

The pair then performed an energetic routine to the sounds of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’s hit Uptown Funk.

Their efforts were met with whooping, cheering and plenty of applause from the audience, and the resulting video has since become an online hit.

Michelle Obama and her dance troupe will next perform their routine at the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 6.”

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show (often shortened to and stylized as ellen) is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.

Debuting on September 8, 2003, Ellen’s show is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBCUniversal, in the United States and Canada. For its first five seasons, the show was taped in Studio 11 at NBC Studios in Burbank, California. It later moved to Stage 1 on the nearby Warner Bros. lot. Since the beginning of the sixth season, Ellen has been broadcast in high definition. The show has won 36 Daytime Emmy Awards as of 2013. It was announced on March 11, 2013 that the show had been renewed through 2017, which would extend the show through its 14th season.