I moved to the UK because of Donald Trump

Ian YoungsCulture reporterGetty ImagesEllen DeGeneres, pictured in 2023, moved to the Cotswolds final NovemberUS TV star Ellen DeGeneres has made her first public look since transferring to the UK, saying she determined to settle in England the day after Donald Trump was re-elected US president.The comic and host advised 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 fitting to homosexual marriage, and that America can nonetheless be “scary for individuals to be who they’re”.She additionally addressed allegations of a poisonous office that led to the top of her long-running chat present in 2022, admitting she may very well 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 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 “remaining 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 studies 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 yr within the UK and acquired what they thought could be “a part-time home”.”We bought right here the day earlier than the election and woke as much as numerous texts from our associates with crying emojis, and I used to be like, ‘He bought in’,” she stated. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying right here’.”Getty ImagesThe Ellen DeGeneres Present began in 2003 and was cancelled in 2022Ellen has been giving glimpses of her new rural life on social media, in movies exhibiting her livestock together with sheep – though they’ve now been offered after they saved escaping.”It is completely stunning,” she stated. “We’re simply not used to seeing this sort of magnificence. The villages and the cities and the structure – all the pieces you see is charming and it is only a easier lifestyle.”It is clear. Every thing right here is simply higher – the way in which animals are handled, individuals are well mannered. I simply like it 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 like it right here. Portia flew her horses right here, and I’ve chickens, and we had sheep for about two weeks.”Being homosexual in Hollywood ‘continues 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 top of her sitcom after advertisers pulled out and the community stopped selling it, she advised the Cheltenham crowd on Sunday.Bacon requested whether or not her visibility had inspired different individuals to return out. “I’d 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 onerous determination” that does not swimsuit everybody, she continued, and stated issues are higher at the moment “in some methods” however not others.”If it was [better], all these different individuals which might 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.”Getty ImagesEllen and Portia de Rossi wed in 2008 after homosexual marriage turned authorized in CaliforniaEllen additionally referenced a latest transfer by the Southern Baptist Conference to endorse the reversal of a Supreme Courtroom case permitting same-sex marriage. No less than 9 state legislatures have launched payments to do the identical.”The Baptist Church in America is making an attempt to reverse homosexual marriage,” she stated. “They’re making an attempt to actually cease it from taking place sooner or later and probably reverse it. Portia and I are already wanting into it, and in the event that they do this, we’ll 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 individuals to be who they’re. I want that we lived in a society the place everyone might settle for different individuals and their variations.”So till we’re there, I believe there is a onerous place to say we have now large progress.”Nonetheless, the youthful technology are “extra snug with it” and are “simply form of fluid”, she added. “So I believe the youthful technology goes to indicate us the way in which.”‘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 variety to at least one 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 cope with this with out sounding like a sufferer or ‘poor me’ or complaining? However I wished to handle it.”It is so simple as, I am a direct individual, and I am very blunt, and I suppose typically that signifies that… I am imply?”She additionally stated it was “form of loopy” that saying somebody is imply “will be the worst factor that you just say a few lady”.”How dare us have any form of temper, or you possibly can’t be something apart from good and candy and sort and submissive and complacent.”She added: “I do not suppose 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 individuals suppose that I am that as a result of I do know who I’m and I do know that I am an empathetic, compassionate individual.”It was “actually an disagreeable option to finish” her speak present, she stated.Would ‘love’ a British speak showEllen stated she misses “quite a bit” about her present, however would not suppose an analogous format would work any extra. “I imply, I want it did, as a result of I’d do the identical factor right here. I’d love to do this once more, however I simply really feel like individuals are watching on their telephones, or individuals aren’t actually paying consideration as a lot to televisions, as a result of we’re so inundated with with data 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 a little bit bit bored.”