Ellen DeGeneres confirmed that U.S. President Donald Trump is the explanation she left the US and moved to the U.Okay.
In her first public look since leaving the U.S. final 12 months, DeGeneres, 67, was requested at a dialog occasion if the experiences that she moved to the U.Okay. due to Trump, 79, have been appropriate and he or she merely stated, “Sure.”
“We bought right here the day earlier than the election and woke as much as a lot of texts from our buddies with crying emojis, and I used to be like, ‘He bought in,’” DeGeneres informed broadcaster Richard Bacon in Cheltenham, England, on Sunday. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying right here.’”
DeGeneres had nothing however good issues to say about her new dwelling within the aristocratic Cotswolds area, telling Bacon that life “is simply higher” within the U.Okay.
“It’s completely lovely,” she stated. “We’re simply not used to seeing this type of magnificence. The villages and the cities and the structure — every part you see is charming and it’s only a less complicated lifestyle.
“It’s clear. All the things right here is simply higher. The best way animals are handled, individuals are well mannered. I simply like it right here.”
DeGeneres stated she and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, moved in November 2024, “which was not the perfect time,” however she was in a position to see “snow for the primary time in my life.”
“We like it right here. Portia flew her horses right here, and I’ve chickens, and we had sheep for about two weeks,” she stated.
The comic additionally addressed allegations of a poisonous office tradition on her former speak present, The Ellen DeGeneres Present, throughout her dialog with Bacon.
“It’s so simple as, I’m a direct particular person, and I’m very blunt, and I suppose generally that signifies that… I’m imply?” she stated. “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 folks 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 particular person.”
She stated she misses “rather a lot” about her present and that it was “definitely an disagreeable option to finish” it.
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DeGeneres stated she doesn’t assume a present with the same format as The Ellen DeGeneres Present would work anymore.
“I imply, I want it did, as a result of I’d do the identical factor right here. I’d love to try this once more, however I simply really feel like individuals are watching on their telephones, or folks aren’t actually paying consideration as a lot to televisions, as a result of we’re so inundated with data and leisure,” she stated.
DeGeneres stated she doesn’t know what she desires to do sooner or later however she can be choosing her subsequent undertaking “very fastidiously.”
“I simply don’t know what that’s but,” she stated. “I wish to have enjoyable, I wish to do one thing. I do like my chickens however I’m a bit bit bored.”
DeGeneres and de Rossi moved to England final November after promoting their dwelling in Montecito, Calif., in August.
On the time, The Wrap spoke to sources near the comic and the Arrested Improvement star who informed the outlet the couple are prone to “by no means” return to the U.S. on a everlasting foundation.
DeGeneres isn’t the primary American movie star to debate the concept of shifting overseas — or really do it — after Trump took workplace in January.
In March, comic and actor Rosie O’Donnell revealed that she’s now not residing in the US and confirmed that she moved to Eire.
“Moved right here on January 15 and it’s been fairly fantastic, I’ve to say. The individuals are so loving and so sort, so welcoming. And I’m very grateful,” O’Donnell stated.
O’Donnell, 63, stated she’s at the moment within the technique of getting her Irish citizenship, and that she has Irish grandparents.
“I miss my different children. I miss my buddies. I miss many issues about life there at dwelling and I’m looking for a house right here on this lovely nation and when it’s secure for all residents to have equal rights there in America, that’s once we will take into account coming again,” she stated.
Extra just lately, Trump threatened to remove any probability of O’Donnell shifting again to the U.S. after saying he’s giving “severe consideration” to revoking her citizenship.
Earlier this month, Trump posted in regards to the actor and comic on Reality Social, writing, “Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell isn’t in one of the best pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving severe consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
“She is a Menace to Humanity, and will stay within the fantastic Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA,” he added in his publish.
A screenshot of Donald Trump’s publish on Reality Social.
Donald Trump / Reality Social
In response, O’Donnell shared a photograph of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, writing, “hey donald – you’re rattled once more? 18 years later and I nonetheless reside rent-free in that collapsing mind of yours.”
“You name me a menace to humanity – however I’m every part you worry: a loud lady a queer lady a mom who tells the reality an american who bought in another country b4 u set it ablaze,” she continued. “You construct partitions – I construct a life for my autistic child in a rustic the place decency nonetheless exists you crave loyalty.”
“I train my youngsters to query energy you promote worry on golf programs – I make artwork about surviving trauma. You lie, you steal, you degrade – I nurture, I create, I persist,” she wrote. “You might be every part that’s mistaken with america – and I’m every part you hate about what’s nonetheless proper with it.”
“You wish to revoke my citizenship? go forward and check out, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan i’m not yours to silence i by no means was.”
— With recordsdata from World Information’ Michelle Butterfield
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