Ellen DeGeneres: I moved to the UK because of Trump

US TV prima Ellen DeGeneres has made her archetypal nationalist quality since moving to the UK, saying she decided to settee successful England the time aft Donald Trump was re-elected US president.

The comedian and big told a assemblage successful Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, that beingness "is conscionable better" successful the UK.

Ellen said she and woman Portia de Rossi were considering getting joined again successful England aft immoderate moves successful the US to reverse the close to cheery marriage, and that America tin inactive beryllium "scary for radical to beryllium who they are".

She besides addressed allegations of a toxic workplace that led to the extremity of her long-running chat amusement successful 2022, admitting she could beryllium "very blunt", but dismissed the stories arsenic "clickbait".

Ellen was 1 of the biggest names connected US TV for 30 years, acknowledgment to her daytime chat show, arsenic good arsenic her self-titled 1990s sitcom, for hosting the Oscars, Grammys and Emmys, and for voicing Dory successful Finding Nemo.

After her speech amusement was cancelled and a "final stand-up tour", she bought a location successful the Cotswolds, a historical and picturesque country chiefly spanning parts of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.

On Sunday astatine the Everyman theatre successful adjacent Cheltenham, she was successful speech with broadcaster Richard Bacon, who asked whether reports that she moved due to the fact that of Donald Trump were correct. "Yes," she replied.

The 67-year-old said she and De Rossi had initially planned to walk 3 oregon 4 months a twelvemonth successful the UK and bought what they thought would beryllium "a part-time house".

"We got present the time earlier the predetermination and woke up to tons of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, 'He got in'," she said. "And we're like, 'We're staying here'."

Ellen has been giving glimpses of her caller agrarian beingness connected societal media, successful videos showing her workplace animals including sheep - though they person present been sold aft they kept escaping.

"It's perfectly beautiful," she said. "We're conscionable not utilized to seeing this benignant of beauty. The villages and the towns and the architecture - everything you spot is charming and it's conscionable a simpler mode of life.

"It's clean. Everything present is conscionable amended - the mode animals are treated, radical are polite. I conscionable emotion it here.

"We moved present successful November, which was not the perfect time, but I saw snowfall for the archetypal clip successful my life. We emotion it here. Portia flew her horses here, and I person chickens, and we had sheep for astir 2 weeks."

On her past tour, she joked that she had been "kicked retired of amusement concern twice" - the archetypal being erstwhile she came retired arsenic cheery successful 1997.

That efficaciously led to the extremity of her sitcom aft advertisers pulled retired and the web stopped promoting it, she told the Cheltenham assemblage connected Sunday.

Bacon asked whether her visibility had encouraged different radical to travel out. "I would accidental no," she replied. "I imagined a batch of radical coming retired similar meerkats poking retired of a spread and going backmost successful again. 'How's she doing? OK, no, no.'"

But it is "a truly hard decision" that doesn't suit everyone, she continued, and that things are amended contiguous "in immoderate ways".

"If it was [better], each these different radical that are actors and actresses that I cognize they're gay, they'd beryllium out, but they're not, due to the fact that it's inactive a problem. People are inactive scared."

Ellen besides referenced a caller determination by the Southern Baptist Convention to endorse the reversal of a Supreme Court lawsuit allowing same-sex marriage. At slightest 9 authorities legislatures person introduced bills to bash the same.

"The Baptist Church successful America is trying to reverse cheery marriage," she said. "They're trying to virtually halt it from happening successful the aboriginal and perchance reverse it. And Portia and I are already looking into it. And if they bash that, we're going to get joined here."

Later, successful effect to an assemblage question, she added: "I privation we were astatine a spot wherever it was not scary for radical to beryllium who they are. I privation that we lived successful a nine wherever everybody could judge different radical and their differences.

"So until we're there, I deliberation there's a hard spot to accidental we person immense progress."

However, the younger procreation are "more comfy with it" and are "just benignant of fluid", she added. "So I deliberation the younger procreation is going to amusement america the way."

After immoderate erstwhile workers connected her speech amusement made allegations of a toxic workplace culture, the prima - who ended each occurrence by telling viewers to "be benignant to 1 another" - was dubbed arsenic "mean" successful the media.

Following the ungraded 3 producers were sacked amid allegations of misconduct and intersexual harassment, and the last play of the amusement opened with DeGeneres giving an on-air apology.

She addressed that successful her 2024 circuit and the accompanying Netflix stand-up special.

"No substance what, immoderate nonfiction that came up, it was like, 'She's mean', and it's like, however bash I woody with this without sounding similar a unfortunate oregon 'poor me' oregon complaining? But I wanted to code it.

"It's arsenic elemental as, I'm a nonstop person, and I'm precise blunt, and I conjecture sometimes that means that... I'm mean?"

She besides said it was "kind of crazy" that saying idiosyncratic is mean "can beryllium the worst happening that you accidental astir a woman".

"How situation america person immoderate benignant of mood, oregon you can't beryllium thing different than bully and saccharine and benignant and submissive and complacent?"

She added: "I don't deliberation I tin accidental thing that's ever going to get escaped of that [reputation] oregon dispel it, which is hurtful to me. I hatred it. I hatred that radical deliberation that I'm that due to the fact that I cognize who I americium and I cognize that I'm an empathetic, compassionate person."

It was "certainly an unpleasant mode to end" her speech show, she said.

Ellen said she misses "a lot" astir her show, but doesn't deliberation a akin format would enactment immoderate more.

"I mean, I privation it did, due to the fact that I would bash the aforesaid happening here. I would emotion to bash that again, but I conscionable consciousness similar radical are watching connected their phones, oregon radical aren't truly paying attraction arsenic overmuch to televisions, due to the fact that we're truthful inundated with with accusation and entertainment."

She said she didn't cognize what she would bash successful the future, but would prime her adjacent determination "very carefully".

"I conscionable don't cognize what that is yet," she said. "I privation to person fun, I privation to bash something. I bash similar my chickens but I'm a small spot bored."