Comic and former TV discuss present host Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed that she fled America for the UK because of the election of Donald Trump.
As reported by BBC, DeGeneres made the revelation throughout an occasion on the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, England, over the weekend, telling broadcaster Richard Bacon that Trump’s election turned an abroad journey with spouse Portia de Rossi right into a everlasting trip.
“We acquired right here the day earlier than the election and woke as much as numerous texts from our mates with crying emojis, and I used to be like, ‘He acquired in,’” DeGeneres mentioned “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying right here.’”
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Amongst DeGeneres’ issues about America below Trump is the continued menace towards LGBTQ+ rights: “The Baptist Church in America is attempting to reverse homosexual marriage,” she defined. “They’re attempting 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’re going to get married right here… I want we had 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 may settle for different individuals and their variations. So till we’re there, I believe there’s a tough place to say now we have big progress.”
DeGeneres additionally expressed the brilliant aspect of the transfer, saying that the UK is “completely lovely. We’re simply not used to seeing this type of magnificence. The villages and the cities and the structure – every little thing you see is charming and it’s only a easier lifestyle. It’s clear. Every little thing right here is simply higher—the best way animals are handled, persons are well mannered. I simply adore it right here. We moved right here in November, which was not the perfect time, however I noticed snow for the primary time in my life. We adore it right here. Portia flew her horses right here, and I’ve chickens, and we had sheep for about two weeks.”
Earlier this yr, Rosie O’Donnell revealed that she, too, had left America following Trump’s return to the White Home by transferring to Eire.
“Though I used to be by no means somebody who thought I might transfer to a different nation, that’s what I made a decision could be the very best for myself and my 12-year-old baby. And right here we’re,” she mentioned by way of TikTok about relocating abroad along with her son Clay. “I miss many issues about life there at residence and I’m looking for a house right here on this lovely nation and when it’s protected for all residents to have equal rights there in America, that’s after we will take into account coming again,” she added. “It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s taking place politically and exhausting for me personally as nicely. The non-public is political, as everyone knows.”
It’s value noting that DeGeneres’ choice was made simpler by her 2024 exit from the leisure trade after the top of her daytime discuss present as a consequence of accusations of a poisonous work surroundings. Throughout her farewell standup tour, DeGeneres claimed to have been “kicked out of present enterprise,” and he or she additionally informed followers that her Netflix particular was “the final time you’re going to see me.”