Television Ellen DeGeneres to End Talk Show After 18 Years

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Ellen DeGeneres to End Talk Show: “I Need Something New to Challenge Me” (Exclusive)

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DeGeneres gets candid about her decision to wrap up the show, the allegations that nearly torpedoed the series and the parts that she’ll miss most – and least – about her daily platform.

 

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Timing her departure is something DeGeneres has openly wrestled with in the past. In a 2018 New York Times profile, she revealed that her actress wife, Portia de Rossi, had been encouraging her to move on from the 180-shows-a-year gig, while her comedian brother, along with executives at Warner Bros., had urged her to continue. In the end, DeGeneres signed on for three more seasons, but was clear with herself and her team that this contract — which would take her well beyond 3,000 shows, and a stunning 2,400 celebrity interviews — would be her last.

 

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Indeed, after an uphill battle to get the show off the ground — “it was the hardest show we’ve ever had to launch in the history of our company,” a Warner Bros. exec previously told THR — it’s been widely praised for delivering a mid-day jolt of joy, to say nothing of ratings and revenue with its mix of dancing, games and giveaways (nearly $70 million in charitable donations and more than $300 million in audience giveaways).

 

And the allegations:

 

There were pretty serious allegations waged last summer and some changes were made to your show. I’m curious how that chapter impacted you, the show and this decision?

 

It almost impacted the show. It was very hurtful to me. I mean, very. But if I was quitting the show because of that, I wouldn’t have come back this season. So, it’s not why I’m stopping but it was hard because I was sitting at home, it was summer, and I see a story that people have to chew gum before they talk to me and I’m like, “Okay, this is hilarious.” Then I see another story of some other ridiculous thing and then it just didn’t stop. And I wasn’t working, so I had no platform, and I didn’t want to address it on [Twitter] and I thought if I just don’t address it, it’s going to go away because it was all so stupid.

 

But it very much didn’t go away…

 

I became a comedian because I wanted to make people feel good. It started when I was 13-years-old, when my parents got divorced, and I wanted to make my mother happy. My whole being is about making people happy. And with the talk show, all I cared about was spreading kindness and compassion and everything I stand for was being attacked. So, it destroyed me, honestly. I’d be lying if I said it didn’t. And it makes me really sad that there’s so much joy out there from negativity. It’s a culture now where there are just mean people, and it’s so foreign to me that people get joy out of that. Then, on the heels of it, there are allegations of a toxic workplace and, unfortunately, I learned that through the press. And at first I didn’t believe it because I know how happy everybody is here and how every guest talks about, “Man, you have a great place here. Of all the talk shows I’ve done, everyone here is so happy.” That’s all I’ve ever heard.

 

So, there was an internal investigation, obviously, and we learned some things but this culture we’re living is [is one where] no one can make mistakes. And I don’t want to generalize because there are some bad people out there and those people shouldn’t work again but, in general, the culture today is one where you can’t learn and grow, which is, as human beings, what we’re here to do. And I can see people looking at that going, “You don’t care about what people [went through.]” I care tremendously. It broke my heart when I learned that people here had anything other than a fantastic experience — that people were hurt in any way. I check in now as much as I can through Zoom to different departments and I make sure people know that if there’s ever a question or ever anything, they can come to me and I don’t know why that was never considered before. I’m not a scary person. I’m really easy to talk to. So, we’ve all learned from things that we didn’t realize — or I didn’t realize — were happening. I just want people to trust and know that I am who I appear to be.

 

You mentioned that it almost impacted the show. What did you mean by that? Were there moments in there where you thought, “I don’t to want to come back to this”?

 

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was four solid months. And you have to understand, in that time, someone got into our house and robbed us and I lost four animals — three cats and a dog died. It was a tsunami. When it started, with that stupid “someone couldn’t look me in the eye” or whatever the first thing was, it’s like a crest of a wave. Like, “This isn’t going to be that big of a wave.” And then it just keeps getting bigger and bigger until it was out of control. And I really, honestly, felt like, “I don’t deserve this. I don’t need this. I know who I am. I’m a good person.” And I was sitting back going, “If I was someone watching this, I would think, ‘Well, there must be some truth to it because it’s not stopping.’” Of course they’re going to believe this because I’m not addressing it because I was told not to and you can imagine what that felt like. And it’s a lot to live up to. I started saying “be kind to one another” because I really believe people should be kind to one another and so it was easy clickbait to say, “Oh, the be kind lady isn’t so kind.” … I am kind, I’m also a woman and I’m a boss.

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

lol even if I was all true she would never admit to it. 

[Amazatron]

Still playing the innocent victim eh...

[Dre801]

Got tired of pretending to be a nice person, eh?

[Keyser_Soze]

She's freeing the slaves.

[Bloodporne]

More like Ellen DeGenerate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too early?

[Keyser_Soze]

10 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

More like Ellen DeGenerate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too early?

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I am less than six degrees of separation from Ellen through my college roommate who married Anne Heche after she and Ellen ended their relationship.

 

[CitizenVectron]

My feelings on Ellen are complex. On the one hand, she did a great deal of help to the LGBTQ+ community in the 90s in terms of growing acceptance among the cis community. On the other, she is a trash human being, from the sounds of it. Like many historical figures, I guess the correct way to look at it is that she is a complicated person who is a piece of garbage, but ultimately did some things that benefited some people.

 

 

59 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

I am less than six degrees of separation from Ellen through my college roommate who married Anne Heche after she and Ellen ended their relationship.

 

 

Man, I had such a huge crush on Anne Heche when I was younger.

[best3444]

I used to think she was pretty funny and a good person. Then after all that came out it's better off she's ending the show. God knows what "challenge" she is attempting to try, though.

[Biggie]

[Brick]

I didn't pay too much of the accusations of her being rather mean, but how much water does it all hold? Didn't she quit American Idol after one season because didn't like telling people "no" to their dreams? How do we know the accusations weren't from a disgruntled employee, or a misunderstanding (i.e. something like when someone says, "oh so-and-so celebrity is so rude, and thinks they're better than everyone else", when really it's just that the celebrity is actually really shy, and that's why they don't make eye contact (I'm guilty of this myself)). 

 

The legit criticism of her not making sure all the people working on the show are getting work and paid during the lockdown when she was shooting from home is valid though. 

[ort]

Oh no... now what will I half-listen to in doctor office waiting rooms for 15 minutes while I play on my phone?

[Joe]

32 minutes ago, Brick said:

I didn't pay too much of the accusations of her being rather mean, but how much water does it all hold? Didn't she quit American Idol after one season because didn't like telling people "no" to their dreams? How do we know the accusations weren't from a disgruntled employee, or a misunderstanding (i.e. something like when someone says, "oh so-and-so celebrity is so rude, and thinks they're better than everyone else", when really it's just that the celebrity is actually really shy, and that's why they don't make eye contact (I'm guilty of this myself)). 

 

The legit criticism of her not making sure all the people working on the show are getting work and paid during the lockdown when she was shooting from home is valid though. 

In the time it took you to type this, you could have quickly searched on Google and found out that the accusations are a lot more than just a single disgruntled employee.

[Biggie]

37 minutes ago, Joe said:

In the time it took you to type this, you could have quickly searched on Google and found out that the accusations are a lot more than just a single disgruntled employee.

Brick is heartbroken. He’s gonna need time to heal. 

[Brick]

38 minutes ago, Joe said:

In the time it took you to type this, you could have quickly searched on Google and found out that the accusations are a lot more than just a single disgruntled employee.

 

Yeah but I'm lazy

 

[Bloodporne]

19 hours ago, Joe said:

In the time it took you to type this, you could have quickly searched on Google and found out that the accusations are a lot more than just a single disgruntled employee.

In the time it took you to come up with, and type out, that sick burn, you could've given him a quick tl;dr summary and be that nice person that Ellen wants you to be.

 

Check fucking mate pal 

[Joe]

7 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

In the time it took you to come up with, and type out, that sick burn, you could've given him a quick tl;dr summary and be that nice person that Ellen wants you to be.

 

Check fucking mate pal 

 

I wrote a sentence lol.

[Bloodporne]

5 minutes ago, Joe said:

 

I wrote a sentence lol.

Exactly!

[Joe]

Just now, Bloodporne said:

Exactly!

 

Explaining all the different accusations would take a lot more than a single sentence and in my reply, I did explain that it was a lot more than a single accusation. So your burn of my burn has been cancelled. 

[Bloodporne]

1 hour ago, Joe said:

 

Explaining all the different accusations would take a lot more than a single sentence and in my reply, I did explain that it was a lot more than a single accusation. So your burn of my burn has been cancelled. 

Damn. I've got nothing.