I moved to the UK due to Donald Trump

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US TV star Ellen DeGeneres has made her first public look since shifting to the UK, saying she determined to settle in England the day after Donald Trump was re-elected US president.

The comic and host informed a crowd in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, that life "is simply higher" within the UK.

Ellen stated she and spouse Portia de Rossi have been contemplating getting married once more in England after some strikes within the US to reverse the precise to homosexual marriage, and that America can nonetheless be "scary for folks to be who they're".

She additionally addressed allegations of a poisonous office that led to the tip of her long-running chat present in 2022, admitting she could possibly be "very blunt", however dismissed the tales as "clickbait".

'We're staying right here'

Ellen was one of many largest names on US TV for 30 years, due to her daytime chat present, in addition to for her self-titled Nineteen Nineties sitcom, for internet hosting the Oscars, Grammys and Emmys, and for voicing Dory in Discovering Nemo.

After her speak present was cancelled, she went on a "ultimate stand-up tour" within the US 2024 then purchased a home within the Cotswolds, a historic and picturesque space primarily spanning elements of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.

On Sunday on the Everyman theatre in close by Cheltenham, she was in dialog with broadcaster Richard Bacon, who requested whether or not reviews that she moved due to Donald Trump have been right. "Sure," she replied.

The 67-year-old stated she and De Rossi had initially deliberate to spend three or 4 months a 12 months within the UK and acquired what they thought can be "a part-time home".

"We acquired right here the day earlier than the election and woke as much as a lot of texts from our associates with crying emojis, and I used to be like, 'He acquired in'," she stated. "And we're like, 'We're staying right here'."

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Ellen has been giving glimpses of her new rural life on social media, in movies exhibiting her cattle together with sheep - though they've now been offered after they stored escaping.

"It is completely stunning," 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 is only a easier lifestyle.

"It is clear. All the pieces right here is simply higher - the best way animals are handled, individuals are well mannered. I simply find it irresistible right here.

"We moved right here in November, which was not the best time, however I noticed snow for the primary time in my life. We find it irresistible right here. Portia flew her horses right here, and I've chickens, and we had sheep for about two weeks."

Being homosexual in Hollywood 'remains to be an issue'

On her final tour, she joked that she had been "kicked out of present enterprise twice" - the primary time being when she got here out as homosexual in 1997.

That successfully led to the tip of her sitcom after advertisers pulled out and the community stopped selling it, she informed the Cheltenham crowd on Sunday.

Bacon requested whether or not her visibility had inspired different folks to come back out. "I might say no," she replied. "I imagined lots of people popping out like meerkats poking out of a gap and going again in once more. 'How's she doing? OK, no, no.'"

However it's "a extremely laborious resolution" that does not swimsuit everybody, she continued, and stated issues are higher in the present day "in some methods" however not others.

"If it was [better], all these different folks which can be actors and actresses that I do know they're homosexual, they'd be out, however they don't seem to be, as a result of it is nonetheless an issue. Persons are nonetheless scared."

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Ellen additionally referenced a current transfer by the Southern Baptist Conference to endorse the reversal of a Supreme Court docket case permitting same-sex marriage. No less than 9 state legislatures have launched payments to do the identical.

"The Baptist Church in America is attempting to reverse homosexual marriage," she stated. "They're attempting to actually cease it from occurring sooner or later and probably reverse it. Portia and I are already wanting into it, and in the event that they try this, we will get married right here."

Later, in response to an viewers query, she added: "I want we have been at a spot the place it was not scary for folks to be who they're. I want that we lived in a society the place all people may settle for different folks and their variations.

"So till we're there, I believe there is a laborious place to say we've got big progress."

Nevertheless, the youthful technology are "extra snug with it" and are "simply form of fluid", she added. "So I believe the youthful technology goes to point out us the best way."

'Does being blunt imply I am imply?'

After some former employees on her speak present made allegations of a poisonous office tradition, the star - who ended each episode by telling viewers to "be form to 1 one other" - was dubbed as "imply" within the media.

Following the scandal three producers have been sacked amid allegations of misconduct and sexual harassment, and the ultimate season of the present opened with Ellen giving an on-air apology.

She addressed that in her 2024 tour and the accompanying Netflix stand-up particular.

"It doesn't matter what, any article that got here up, it was like, 'She's imply', and it is 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.

"It is so simple as, I am a direct particular person, and I am very blunt, and I suppose generally that implies that... I am imply?"

She additionally stated it was "form of loopy" that saying somebody is imply "could be the worst factor that you simply say a couple of girl".

"How dare us have any form of temper, or you possibly can't be something aside from good and candy and sort and submissive and complacent."

She added: "I do not assume I can say something that is ever going to do away with that [reputation] or dispel it, which is hurtful to me. I hate it. I hate that folks assume that I am that as a result of I do know who I'm and I do know that I am an empathetic, compassionate particular person."

It was "definitely an disagreeable option to finish" her speak present, she stated.

Would 'love' a British speak present

Ellen stated she misses "lots" about her present, however does not assume an analogous format would work any extra.

"I imply, I want it did, as a result of I might do the identical factor right here. I might love to do 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 with info and leisure."

She stated she did not know what she would do sooner or later, however would choose her subsequent transfer "very rigorously".

"I simply do not know what that's but," she stated. "I need to have enjoyable, I need to do one thing. I do like my chickens however I am somewhat bit bored."