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It didn’t take lengthy for Ellen DeGeneres to go from considered one of tv’s most beloved personalities to considered one of Hollywood’s most despised human beings.
That’s what occurs once you’re accused of faking a pleasant persona when the digital camera is on… and being a merciless and poisonous boss when the digital camera is off.
As chances are you’ll recall, numerous workers spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about 4 years in the past and provided up quite a few examples of how producers on The Ellen DeGeneres Present handled them like crap.
Ellen was largely blamed for what transpired backstage and he or she ended her speak present not too lengthy after these allegations have been made public.
Ellen DeGeneres poses within the press room with the Carol Burnett award through the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards on January 5, 2020, at The Beverly Hilton lodge in Beverly Hills, California. (Photograph by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP) (Photograph by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
This previous November, in the meantime, sources claimed that DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, have been shifting to the UK.
The comic herself confirmed as a lot on July 20.
Amid a dialog within the English city of Cheltenham, broadcaster Richard Bacon requested DeGeneres whether or not reviews that President Donald Trump performed a task within the transfer have been appropriate, to which Ellen replied, Sure.
Initially, DeGeneres thought she and her spouse would spend simply three or 4 months of the yr at their “part-time house” within the U.Okay., she defined to Bacon at Cheltenham’s Everyman theater.
Then, Trump was re-elected as Commander-in-Chief.
Ellen DeGeneres introduces Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus through the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, 2020. (Photograph Credit score: ROBYN BECK/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
The spouses “got here the day before the election,” DeGeneres recalled, “and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in.’ … And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here.’”
In the identical sit-down, the polarizing superstar additionally raved to Bacon about life within the U.Okay., in accordance with the BBC.
“It’s absolutely beautiful,” the star stated, including that she and de Rossi are “just not used to seeing this kind of beauty. The villages and the towns and the architecture — everything you see is charming and it’s just a simpler way of life.”
Continued the California native:
“We moved here in November, which was not the ideal time, but I saw snow for the first time in my life. We love it here. Portia flew her horses here, and I have chickens, and we had sheep for about two weeks.”
Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres attend the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Resort on January 5, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photograph by Frazer Harrison/Getty Pictures)
A reasonably harsh critic of Donald Trump’s America, Ellen went on… simply gushing over her new nation.
“Everything here is just better — the way animals are treated, people are polite,” she stated. “I just love it here.”
DeGeneres isn’t the one well-known U.S. comic to make a transfer to Europe as a result of she has disdain for the President.
Earlier this yr, Rosie O’Donnell relocated to Eire in response to Trump’s return to the White Home.
Trump then not too long ago stated he would revoke O’Donnell’s American citizenship, which is each hilarious and really scary.
He has not but commented on Ellen’s transfer or her newest feedback.