Ellen DeGeneres is again within the public eye two years after her eponymous discuss present was cancelled amid poisonous office allegations.
The former titan of daytime tv fell from grace within the wake of a 2020 Buzzfeed News investigation, reporting on allegations made by 10 former workers of The Ellen DeGeneres Show who mentioned they confronted racism, intimidation and sexual misconduct by the hands of prime producers on the present. Three producers had been fired within the aftermath of the report, however The Ellen DeGeneres Show by no means recovered and ended after 19 seasons.
DeGeneres has made uncommon public appearances since, however her present “Ellen’s Last Stand… Up Tour” is her first foray again into the limelight.
During a Wednesday gig on the Largo in L.A., DeGeneres addressed her unceremonious exit, saying she “got kicked out of show business,” in line with People and Rolling Stone, which first reported on the comedy set.
“There’s no mean people in show business,” she joked.
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“The ‘be kind’ girl wasn’t kind. That was the headline,” DeGeneres continued, referencing how she used to finish all her reveals with the phrase “Be kind to one another.”
The former discuss present host bemoaned how her TV legacy was diminished after the scandal: “I became this one-dimensional character who gave stuff away and danced up steps. Do you know how hard it is to dance up steps? Would a mean person dance up steps? Had I ended my show by saying, ‘Go f–k yourself,’ people would’ve been pleasantly surprised.”
DeGeneres apologized on-air after the allegations towards her present arose, however she maintained that she was unaware of the poisonous work atmosphere. Nevertheless, she mentioned she was “taking responsibility for what happened at my show.”
During Wednesday night time’s efficiency, DeGeneres mentioned how she was immature as a supervisor and “didn’t know how to be a boss.”
“I didn’t go to business school. I went to Charlie’s Chuckle Hutt,” DeGeneres joked, in line with Rolling Stone. “The show was called Ellen and everybody was wearing T-shirts that said ‘Ellen’ and there were buildings on the Warner Brothers lot that said ‘Ellen,’ but I (didn’t) know that meant I should be in charge.”
She additionally identified that the backlash she confronted beginning in 2020 was truly her second fall from grace, referring to her sitcom Ellen, which was cancelled in 1998 after DeGeneres got here out as homosexual.
“For those of you keeping score, this is the second time I’ve been kicked out of show business…Eventually they’re going to kick me out for a third time because I’m mean, old, and gay.”
After the stand-up routine completed, DeGeneres got here again on stage for an viewers Q&A and obtained candid about how she “hated the way the show ended” as a result of she “loved that show so much.”
“I’m making jokes about what happened to me, but it was devastating,” she mentioned. “It took a long time for me to want to do anything again.”
The “Ellen’s Last Stand… Up Tour” is making the rounds by way of the western United States and can culminate in a taped particular for Netflix.
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