VIDEO: Kristin Chenoweth Reveals She Couldn't Put Down '50 Shades'

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Beautiful and bubbly Kristin Chenoweth stopped by the fourth hour of this morning's TODAY and told Kathie Lee and Hoda about the awkward moment when she introduced her boyfriend, who is producing the upcoming big screen adaptation of '50 Shades of Grey' to her parents!

The actress voices a poisonous, opera-singing frog who falls in love with a big, bad bird in the upcoming film Rio 2.

The 3D computer-animated musical adventure-comedy RIO 2 is directed by Carlos Saldanha. Featuring the returning voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, and Jake T. Austin, the film will be released on April 11, 2014.

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The fourth hour of 'Today,' hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, has been hailed as "appointment television" by Entertainment Weekly, "uproarious and irresistible" by People magazine, and "Today's happy hour" by USA Today. With their undeniable chemistry and wit, Kathie Lee and Hoda bring viewers a fresh lively show each morning that always gets people talking.

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