Rochester, the former host of The Biggest Loser, and her friend, Queanbeyan teacher Mardi Croke, were in the Los Angeles audience of the ifThe Late, Late Shownf hosted by Scottish comedian Craig Ferguson.

They were pulled out of the audience before the show started and off-camera, Ferguson asked Croke to say she was from Canberra, not Queanbeyan.

When the cameras started rolling, Ferguson then launched into anti-Canberra tirade, the schtick continuing throughout the show.

Croke says it was all meant to be taken light-heartedly. Most of the reaction from Canberra’s movers and shakers has been in that vein.

But Rochester, writing on her website www.findingmymojo.com, took it a step further this afternoon.

‘‘Canberra get a life, get over yourselves, get a sense of humor and hey, at least people are talking about you – which they weren’t last week,’’ she wrote.

‘‘If you can’t see that it was a spontaneous, spur of the moment comedy banter with the man who WILL succeed David Letterman then you are even dumber and more backwater bred than I thought just one day ago. I wasn’t aware that Canberra was governed by a communist doctrine denying anyone the right to his or her own opinion.’’

She does, however, have some good things to say about Canberra.

‘‘I remember with great fondness my friend hanging from the Freefall exhibit at Questicon[sic] , the science museum and me almost peeing my pants as she hung there refusing to let got for about ten minutes while a line of disgruntled children chanted for her to please just let go....that was a highlight. I remember loving Canberra’s greatest ever talent, David Branson, like no other man in my life, may he rest in peace. I also remember with fondness the exit sign at the freeway heading back to Sydney, my own very much loved home.’'