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Another Celeb Confirms She Fled The Country Over The Election

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Former daytime TV queen Ellen DeGeneres has officially confirmed what had been speculated for months: her move out of the United States was politically motivated and it was President Donald Trump who drove her away.

During a recent live appearance in the United Kingdom, the 67-year-old comedian and TV host revealed that she and her wife, Australian actress Portia de Rossi, have permanently relocated to the Cotswolds, one of England’s most picturesque rural regions.

Their new home, DeGeneres says, is a far cry from the America she left behind, and she intends to stay.

“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,’” she said onstage while speaking with British broadcaster Richard Bacon at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here.’”

Though DeGeneres had previously declined to elaborate on her motives, rumors swirled as early as 2024 that her relocation was a direct response to President Trump’s growing political influence and the possibility of a second term.

Sources quoted by The Wrap last year described her decision to leave as final, with one insider claiming she was “never coming back.”

This weekend’s public remarks appear to confirm that speculation. DeGeneres didn’t mince words when describing her newfound love for British life, or her growing disillusionment with the United States.

“It’s absolutely beautiful,” she said of her new surroundings. “We’re just not used to seeing this kind of beauty.”

“The villages and the towns and the architecture—everything you see is charming, and it’s just a simpler way of life.”

“It’s clean. Everything here is just better—the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here,” she added.

DeGeneres and de Rossi, who have been married since 2008, are reportedly considering renewing their vows in the UK, as same-sex marriage protections face renewed legal and political scrutiny.

“The Baptist Church in America is trying to reverse gay marriage,” she warned, pointing to a recent resolution endorsed by Southern Baptists seeking to roll back the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex unions.

“They’re trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it,” she noted.

“Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we’re going to get married here.”

The Emmy-winning host also lamented that, in her view, the U.S. still isn’t a safe place to live openly as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

“I wish we were at a place where it was not scary for people to be who they are,” she said.

“I wish that we lived in a society where everybody could accept other people and their differences. So until we’re there, I think there’s a hard place to say we have huge progress.”

She also touched on Hollywood’s ongoing discomfort with LGBT identity, despite the industry’s public image.

“People are still scared,” she said of others in the entertainment world. “It’s still a problem.”

While DeGeneres spent years cultivating a squeaky-clean, uplifting persona on her popular daytime talk show, her public image took a massive hit in 2020 following reports of a toxic work environment behind the scenes.

Although she issued a public apology, the damage to her brand proved difficult to reverse.

By 2022, The Ellen DeGeneres Show came to an end after nearly 20 years on the air.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter shortly afterward, DeGeneres reflected on the controversy.

“I have to just trust that whatever happened during that time, which was obviously very, very difficult, happened for a reason,” she remarked.

“I think that I learned a lot, and there were some things that came up that I was shocked and surprised by. It was eye-opening, but I just trust that that had to happen.”

During the Cheltenham event, she brought up the backlash again, specifically the widely circulated claims that she had been “mean” to staff and guests.

“No matter what, any article that came up, it was like, ‘She’s mean,’” she said.

“How do I deal with this without sounding like a victim or ‘poor me’ or complaining? But I wanted to address it.”

She insisted that her personality was misinterpreted. “I’m a direct person, and I’m very blunt, and I guess sometimes that means that … I’m mean?”

“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 continued.

“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.”

While she expressed satisfaction with her life abroad, DeGeneres hinted she might return to the spotlight eventually, possibly with a British talk show.

Though she made it clear that she wouldn’t be jumping into anything without careful consideration.

“I just don’t know what that is yet,” she said. “I want to have fun, I want to do something. I do like my chickens, but I’m a little bit bored.”

Perhaps most ironically, DeGeneres now finds herself rejecting the very country she once defended in the face of online cancel mobs.

After facing pressure from the political left for being photographed with former Republican President George W. Bush, she had previously made headlines for defending her right to have friendships that cross ideological lines.

“Here’s the thing: I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have,” she said at the time.

“We’re all different and I think that we’ve forgotten that that’s okay that we’re all different… but just because I don’t agree with someone on everything doesn’t mean that I’m not going to be friends with them.”

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