Ellen DeGeneres confirmed she and her spouse, former actress Portia de Rossi, determined to completely relocate to the UK following the re-election of president Donald Trump.
Whereas in dialog with broadcaster Richard Bacon at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre earlier than kicking off her British tour, the previous speak present host stated she and de Rossi have been initially trying to settle within the nation part-time, per BBC.
“We obtained right here the day earlier than the election and woke as much as a number of texts from our associates with crying emojis, and I used to be like, ‘He obtained in.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying right here,’” she defined.
DeGeneres continued of the choice, “It’s clear. All the pieces right here is simply higher — the best way animals are handled, persons are well mannered. I simply like it right here.”
Of explicit concern was the standing of LGBTQ+ rights and same-sex marriage within the U.S., DeGeneres acknowledged, citing Southern Baptists delegates’ nationwide assembly in June the place an awesome majority of the ten,000 church representatives current referred to as to reverse the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s 10-year-old ruling legalizing homosexual marriage. Moreover, lawmakers in 9 states have proposed measures that would undermine 2015’s Obergefell v. Hodges. (Notably, the UK additionally has its points with queer rights, as a current Worldwide Journal for Fairness in Well being article addressed the rising transphobia amongst authorities, public and media officers.)
“The Baptist Church in America is making an attempt to reverse homosexual marriage,” DeGeneres stated. “They’re making an attempt to actually cease it from occurring sooner or later and presumably reverse it. Portia and I are already wanting into it, and in the event that they try this, we’re going to get married right here.”
She added later, “I want we have been at a spot the place it was not scary for individuals to be who they’re. I want that we lived in a society the place everyone may settle for different individuals and their variations. So till we’re there, I believe there’s a tough place to say we’ve big progress.”
Elsewhere, DeGeneres commented on the controversy that partially led to the ending of her daytime collection after 19 seasons in 2022. A string of reviews a few poisonous work surroundings and sexual misconduct by prime producers in 2020 led to an inside investigation by guardian firm Warner Bros., with The Ellen DeGeneres Present making quite a few behind-the-scene adjustments, together with letting go of three longtime EPs and host DeGeneres apologizing to her workers, in addition to to the viewers. DeGeneres had most lately addressed the matter in her 2024 Netflix particular.
“It doesn’t matter what, any article that got here up, it was like, ‘She’s imply’, and it’s like, how do I take care of this with out sounding like a sufferer or ‘poor me’ or complaining? However I needed to deal with it,” she defined. “It’s so simple as, I’m a direct individual, and I’m very blunt, and I assume generally that signifies that … I’m imply?”
She added that it was “sort of loopy” that saying somebody is imply “could be the worst factor that you simply say a few lady”: “How dare us have any sort of temper, or you possibly can’t be something aside from good and candy and type and submissive and complacent,” she acknowledged.
DeGeneres stated it was “actually an disagreeable approach to finish” her present, although “I don’t suppose I can say something that’s ever going to do away with that [reputation] or dispel it, which is hurtful to me. I hate it. I hate that folks suppose that I’m that as a result of I do know who I’m and I do know that I’m an empathetic, compassionate individual.”
De Generes was requested whether or not she misses her present. She stated she would like to current the same format within the UK however that’s not the route the business goes in.
“I’d do the identical factor right here. I’d love to try this once more,” she added. “However I simply really feel like persons are watching on their telephones, or individuals aren’t actually paying consideration as a lot to televisions, as a result of we’re so inundated with with info and leisure.”
