Back in November, we reported that the comedian Ellen DeGeneres had fled America. She then moved across the world to the United Kingdom. DeGeneres has since been laying low in England with her actress wife Portia de Rossi of Arrested Development fame.
Now, insiders are claiming that DeGeneres is desperate to “rebuild her TV empire” from abroad. This has come as a surprise to many, given the toxic workplace scandal that destroyed DeGeneres’ reputation in the States. Despite this, DeGeneres is reportedly eager to relaunch her entertainment career. To make this dream happen, she’s hatched a plan that involves the former Friends star Jennifer Aniston.
Desperate DeGeneres Calls Aniston For Help
An insider told Star Magazine that even though DeGeneres now lives in England, she would leap at the chance to return to American television. She wants to make this happen despite feeling like she was “kicked out” of show business.
“It may seem delusional, but she really believes she can jump-start her career,” the source said.
In an attempt to relaunch her entertainment career, DeGeneres has reportedly been desperately reaching out to old friends like Jennifer Aniston and Kris Jenner.
“She’s ready to go again and rebuild her TV empire,” the source alleged of DeGeneres.
Check out DeGeneres, Aniston, and Jenner in happier days below.
DeGeneres ‘Would Love’ To Perform Again
This comes one month after DeGeneres admitted that she’s eager to start performing again. She made this admission during a live conversation with the British broadcaster Richard Bacon in the English town of Cheltenham.
“I mean, I wish it [the talk show format worked], because I would do the same thing here [in the UK],” DeGeneres said at the time.
“I would love to do that again,” she confessed. “But I just feel like people are watching on their phones, or people aren’t really paying attention as much to televisions, because we’re so inundated with with information and entertainment.”
DeGeneres went on to indicate that she’s actively looking for new career opportunities.
“[I’ll pick my next career move] very carefully,” she continued. “I just don’t know what that is yet, I want to have fun, I want to do something. I do like my chickens but I’m a little bit bored.”
DeGeneres’ Toxic Workplace Scandal
Later in the conversation, DeGeneres touched on the toxic workplace scandal that effectively destroyed her reputation in America.
DeGeneres was known as “The Queen of Nice” for decades. That all changed in 2020, when her toxic workplace scandal exploded. Indeed, DeGeneres was accused of presiding over a workplace at her talk show that was full of racism, sexism, and bullying. It was even alleged that her own staffers were told to never make eye contact with DeGeneres.
In Sunday’s conversation, DeGeneres acknowledged that she fears that she’ll forever be portrayed as “mean.”
“It’s as simple as, I’m a direct person, and I’m very blunt, and I guess sometimes that means that… I’m mean?” DeGeneres stated. “How dare us [women] have any kind of mood. Or you can’t be anything other than nice and sweet and kind and submissive and complacent…”
“I don’t think I can say anything that’s ever going to get rid of that [reputation] or dispel it, which is hurtful to me, I hate it,” she lamented. “I hate that people think that I’m that because I know who I am and I know that I’m an empathetic, compassionate person.”
DeGeneres Flees America
This reputation for being “mean” was part of the reason DeGeneres decided to flee America and start over abroad.
“Ellen really felt she had made her mark on the industry, but that was diminished when she was cancelled over her alleged treatment of her staff,” a source told Daily Mail back in November. “Then to have celebrities call her out one by one was so hurtful.”
Given everything that has happened, DeGeneres seems to be facing an uphill battle if she wants to make it in Hollywood again. Only time will tell if DeGeneres can make the entertainment comeback that she’s dreaming of!
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