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.
Months before she fled the United States, DeGeneres officially retired from the entertainment world. After the release of her final comedy special on Netflix, DeGeneres even went so far as to blatantly say that she was “done.”
“This is the last time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix special, I’m done,” DeGeneres said while performing in San Francisco on July 1, 2024.
Now, however, DeGeneres is singing a very different tune. Indeed, DeGeneres revealed this past weekend that she’s currently desperate to relaunch her entertainment career in England.
DeGeneres Wants To Perform Again
On Sunday, DeGeneres took part in a live conversation with the British broadcaster Richard Bacon in the English town of Cheltenham. There, she made it clear that she’s eager to start performing again in her new home country.
“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.”
Toxic Workplace Scandal Destroys DeGeneres’ Image
DeGeneres also 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.”
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DeGeneres Fled America To Escape ‘Mean’ Reputation
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.”
Like many Hollywood stars, it seems that DeGeneres simply can’t handle being out of the spotlight for too long.
DeGeneres can try to relaunch her entertainment career in England all that she wants to, but it’s likely going to be an uphill battle for her. In the end, a large number of DeGeneres fans have turned on her, and it’s hard to see her ever being able to win them back!
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