Ellen DeGeneres has said that her move to the UK is a permanent one following Donald Trump's re-election.
It was first reported last year that DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi had relocated to the UK following last year's election, which saw Donald Trump re-elected to the White House for the second time, succeeding Joe Biden.
Now, DeGeneres has confirmed reports that her permanent switch to the UK was down to Trump's re-election, having initially planned to spend part of each year in the UK. The couple bought a house in the Cotswolds.
“We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in”, DeGeneres revealed. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here’".
DeGeneres also revealed that she and de Rossi are considering getting remarried in the UK, amid concerns over reported steps taken by the US to reverse same-sex marriage.
“The Baptist Church in America is trying to reverse gay marriage,” she noted. “They’re trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it. Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we’re going to get married here".
In 2022, Ellen DeGeneres' talk show came to an end after 19 seasons, amid reports of a "toxic work environment", which saw the host later apologise, saying: "Things happened here that should never have happened".
Regarding the backlash, DeGeneres added: “No matter what, any article that came up, it was like, ‘She’s mean’, and it’s like, how do I deal with this without sounding like a victim or ‘poor me’ or complaining? But I wanted to address it. 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?”.
Elsewhere, she also said that it was “kind of crazy” that calling a person mean “can be the worst thing that you say about a woman”, adding: “How dare us have any kind of mood, or you can’t be anything other than nice and sweet and kind and submissive and complacent".
The presenter also added that she does not think she “can say anything that’s ever going to get rid of that [reputation] or dispel it”, which she finds “hurtful”.
“I hate it. 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".
