Ellen DeGeneres confirmed she and her spouse, former actress Portia de Rossi, determined to completely relocate to the U.Okay. 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 discuss present host mentioned she and de Rossi have been initially seeking to settle within the nation part-time, per BBC.
“We received right here the day earlier than the election and woke as much as plenty of texts from our pals with crying emojis, and I used to be like, ‘He received in.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying right here,’” she defined.
DeGeneres continued of the choice, “It’s clear. Every thing right here is simply higher — the way in which animals are handled, individuals are well mannered. I simply find it irresistible right here.”
Of specific 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 U.Okay. additionally has its points with queer rights, as a latest Worldwide Journal for Fairness in Well being article addressed the rising transphobia amongst authorities, public and media officers.)
“The Baptist Church in America is attempting to reverse homosexual marriage,” DeGeneres mentioned. “They’re attempting to actually cease it from occurring sooner or later and presumably reverse it. Portia and I are already trying 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 all people might settle for different individuals and their variations. So till we’re there, I believe there’s a tough place to say we’ve got big progress.”
Elsewhere, DeGeneres commented on the controversy that partially led to the ending of her daytime sequence after 19 seasons in 2022. A string of studies a few poisonous work setting and sexual misconduct by prime producers in 2020 led to an inside investigation by mother or father firm Warner Bros., with The Ellen DeGeneres Present making plenty of 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 not too long ago 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 wished 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 “may 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 apart from good and candy and type and submissive and complacent,” she acknowledged.
DeGeneres concluded that it was “definitely an disagreeable strategy to finish” her present, although “I don’t assume I can say something that’s ever going to eliminate that [reputation] or dispel it, which is hurtful to me. I hate it. I hate that individuals assume 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.”
