Hugh Jackman injured at Oprah show

Hugh Jackman has already injured his eye while making a spectacular entrance to show Australian Oprah Winfrey.

Jackman gave a flying fox from the top of the Opera House sails before hitting a lighting rig on top of the stage, injuring his eye.

"It was fun until the end," he joked.

Winfrey asked a block of ice and paramedics rushed to the stage to take treat Jackman to his injury.

The star was taken off the stage for treatment, while Winfrey entertain the crowd.

Jackman, who returned to the stage shortly after with a small bandage on the eye, admitted the excitement caused him to slam on the brakes too late.

"I came down waving at everyone, looking over Sydney Harbour, I saw my father children and you went to pull the brake and then, boing," said Winfrey.

Jackman then gave Oprah a lesson about Vegemite, a spread on a biscuit SAO and offer it to the talk show queen.

"I like," she said, before eating some more and wash it with a glass of Penfold's Grange

Winfrey was named the new global ambassador of Australia, saying that his much-touted trip Down Under would bring great rewards to the country's image and coffers of tourism.

Winfrey was taping episodes outside the United States for the first time in 24 years history of their program.

"I called an unofficial ambassador to Australia and I have the biggest mouth in the world," she said before recording two episodes of his star-studded concert before thousands of fans outside of Sydney's iconic landmark, recently named of "Oprah House."

"I know there is much talk and concern in the country as to what this means for tourism in Australia," she told reporters of 6,000 fans waited Winfrey and guests like rapper Jay-Z and Bon Jovi to the stage.

"Let me tell you - that's the truth: It is unfathomable that a four-hour love fest on the country, broadcast in 145 countries around the world can do," she said, referring to his selling power of legend.

"You're not happy that I liked?"

Winfrey, whose endorsement of the books may trigger massive sales, said it had been his dream to visit Australia, and she brought 302 members of his loyal audience with the U.S. as a thank her last year of his show.

After years in the spotlight, she said she had never seen anything like the reception he received in Australia - thousands of cheering her in Melbourne, at a reception not seen since Princess Diana visited in 1980 for lighting "The 'up the Sydney Harbour Bridge during their stay.

Crowds thronged the Sydney Harbour is at dawn hoping to catch a glimpse of the superstar, and many wore hats and shirts emblazoned with her name.

As Oprah hit the stage under a blazing sun of noon, some were in tears. "She's just an inspiration," said the 27-year-old Nicole Menzel traveled to Melbourne for the event.

Australia paid four to five million U.S. dollars to attract the talk-show diva Down Under, a government minister said Tuesday, but experts say the exposure may be worth more than ten times that amount.

Winfrey said the 302 members of the public with it, about 200 had never left the United States and for them a vacation can mean "go to the house of his brother-in-law is."

"What I know for sure what will happen is that people ... have never even thought about Australia, did not know where he was ... will have the seed planted in their hearts," she said.

The first show filmed Tuesday at a stage below the Opera has had a Brazilian flavor, with actor Russell Crowe and family of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin.

A second show was to be filmed on Tuesday by Harpo Productions Winfrey, who spent almost seven million U.S. dollars on the trip and took 200 of his own staff to make four episodes.

Winfrey, 56, said his show was a wonderful phenomenon, but the time to end it had arrived, and while there would be "ugly tears" in the final recording, she had no regrets.

"I really do not think he will leave a hole in my heart," she said.