“Yes, 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.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here,” Ellen
said.
She and her wife, Portia de Rossi, have settled into their new home in the Cotswolds in 2024, which the 67-year-old describes as “beautiful and clean.”She expressed satisfaction with her new life in the UK, saying, “Everything here is just better – the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.”
She also spoke about her concerns regarding LGBTQ+ rights in the US, implying that she and De Rossi could marry again in the United Kingdom.
“The Baptist Church in America is trying to reverse gay marriage. They’re trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it. Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we’re going to get married here,” Ellen said.
“I wish we were at a place where it was not scary for people to be who they are. 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 added.
During the event, Ellen also addressed the controversy surrounding the end of her daytime talk show Ellen after 19 seasons. She mentioned that she had been misconstrued as ‘mean’ due to her direct and blunt nature.
“No matter what, any article that came up, it was like, ‘She’s mean’. How do I deal with this without sounding like a victim or ‘poor me’ or complaining? But I wanted to address it. I’m a direct person, and I’m very blunt, and I guess sometimes that means that … I’m mean?”
She also expressed her fondness for her past show, but doubts a similar format would succeed today. “I mean, I wish it did, because I would do the same thing here. I would love to do that again, but I just feel like people are watching on their phones, or people aren’t really paying attention as much to televisions, because we’re so inundated with information and entertainment,” she said.
She emphasised that she would pick her next move “very carefully”, stating, “I just don’t know what that is yet. I want to have fun, I want to do something. I do like my chickens, but I’m a little bit bored.”
