Ellen DeGeneres has reportedly left the United States following Donald Trump’s decisive reelection. Alongside her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, DeGeneres has relocated to the rural Cotswolds region in southwestern England, where the celebrity couple plans to settle permanently.
Reports indicate that the pair has already begun the process of parting ways with their California properties. According to sources cited by The Wrap on Wednesday, their Montecito mansion had been “pocket-listed” for sale, or will be officially listed soon. Just one day later, Fox News confirmed their multimillion-dollar estate had already sold:
The DeGeneres source told the outlet that Trump’s re-election had inspired the couple’s decision to jump ship. DeGeneres announced her support for Vice President Kamala Harris in September by reposting Taylor Swift’s Instagram endorsement. She simply added, “This childless cat lady couldn’t agree more,” a direct dig at Vice President-elect JD Vance.
Representatives for DeGeneres and Rossi did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
JUST IN: Ellen DeGeneres has moved to Great Britain and says she is "never coming back" to the United States after Trump's election win.
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While the decision to leave the U.S. appears to stem primarily from dissatisfaction with the election results, some close to the couple have suggested that DeGeneres’ departure may also be tied to the ongoing fallout from her professional controversies.
In 2022, allegations of a toxic workplace culture on The Ellen DeGeneres Show surfaced, including alleged sexual misconduct. These accusations significantly damaged her reputation and marked the end of her 19-year daytime television career.
DeGeneres has since expressed frustration about what she described as being “pushed out of show business” in a Netflix stand-up special.
Following an internal investigation by Warner Bros. into DeGeneres’s talk show, she issued a written apology to her staff while seemingly absolving herself of any responsibility.
“On day one of our show, I told everyone in our first meeting that The Ellen DeGeneres Show would be a place of happiness—no one would ever raise their voice, and everyone would be treated with respect. Obviously, something changed, and I am disappointed to learn that this has not been the case.”
“I could not have the success I’ve had without all of your contributions. My name is on the show and everything we do and I take responsibility for that. Alongside Warner Bros., we immediately began an internal investigation and we are taking steps, together, to correct the issues. As we’ve grown exponentially, I’ve not been able to stay on top of everything and relied on others to do their jobs as they knew I’d want them done. Clearly some didn’t. That will now change and I’m committed to ensuring this does not happen again,” she continued.
Fox continues:
Warner Bros. announced following their findings, there would be staffing changes. “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” aired its final episode in 2022, but by then, DeGeneres’ reputation had been permanently impacted.
DeGeneres’ reported move follows empty threats from other A-listers, including Cher, Sharon Stone and Barbra Streisand, who had threatened to leave the U.S. if Trump were victorious once again. Speaking with The Guardian in 2023, Cher said she “almost got an ulcer the last time” Trump nearly regained power. “If he gets in, who knows? This time I will leave [the country].”
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Glad to see you go. Just remember you have vowed to never return … you are no longer welcomed here!!
ELLEN please wait!!!You forgot all of your Liberal Lunatic friends.We have had to live through years of your Retarded Presidents that took away Americans rights and gave them to Illegals,housed illegals and left Americans sleeping on the streets.Brought in Illegals that raped and murdered Americans and now that we have a PRESIDENT that is not a Communist leaning no good you can’t stand that our country will once again be GREAT AGAIN.
Go,leave in a hurry.If you want to do it right you will renounce your American citizenship and NEVER come back again.
Don’t forget to call your friends and tell them to join you.We don’t need you now or later.
YEA!!!!!!!!! I hope ol degenerate and all like her leave forever!
Farewell. Good bye. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Be assured, you and your wife will NOT be missed. Unlike a lot of the other lib celebrities who promised to leave you actually did it.
She and her “wife” claim to be leaving because Trump won, but they bought the place in the UK before the election. Or they saw the handwriting on the wall and knew Empty Pantsuit didn’t have a chance. I don’t think anyone is going to bewail the loss of DeGenerate. With England becoming more and more Muslim, I wonder how well she and her sodomite partner are going to be accepted.
YEAH!!! DON’T LET THE PLANES DOOR HIT YOU IN THE CABOOSE ON THE WAY OUT!! AND DON’T FORGET YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER!!!
Please say it’s true. And let’s pray that she’s taking all the rest of the liberal celebrities
with her to stay and never come back.
oh happy day
What’s she got left here? Her show went into the crapper a while ago & she is not making any money here so she’ll try boney old England.
BYE! Have a nice trip !!!
Only hope she stays.
Who really cares??? She’s running cause she’s on diddys list.
When she legally denounces her citizenship and burns her American passport, I’ll believe, “it” or whatever.
They have lost along with the democrats. It is a shame that they can’t pick themselves up by their bootstraps and continue to live in their own country, face reality and see what the next four years will bring. I don’t remember republicans saying they wanted to leave this country when Obama and Biden were elected president. SO SAD, SO SAD.
She didn’t do this on a spur of the moment decision. You don’t pack up and leave a big estate in Monticito, CA overnight (or even in a couple of weeks) without prior planning. It just happened to fit her desire for some last publicity before moving. Local paper says the estate already has sold. I suspect that she also would have been gone it the VP had won.