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Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed she left the US because of President Trump in a candid new interview.
The comedian and presenter, 67, now lives in the Cotswolds with her wife Portia de Rossi, 52, and told how they are ‘staying here’ for good now.
This weekend she spoke with broadcaster Richard Bacon at the Everyman theatre in Cheltenham where she opened up about the huge life changes.
She also said she and Portia – who first wed in 2008 – were considering tying the knot again in the UK after some moves in the US to reverse the right to gay marriage.
Ellen said during the conversation: ‘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’.’
Speaking of her love for the UK she added: ‘It’s absolutely beautiful. We’re just not used to seeing this kind of beauty. The villages and the towns and the architecture – everything you see is charming and it’s just a simpler way of life.
Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed she left the US because of President Trump in a candid new interview
The comedian and presenter, 67, now lives in the Cotswolds with her wife Portia de Rossi, 52, and told how they are ‘staying here’ for good now after Trump got back into power
‘It’s clean. Everything here is just better – the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.
‘We moved here in November, which was not the ideal time, but I saw snow for the first time in my life. We love it here. Portia flew her horses here, and I have chickens, and we had sheep for about two weeks.’
Ellen also spoke about the increasing threats to same sex marriage in the US during the conversation.
She said: ‘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.
‘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.’
Ellen often shares a look at her idyllic country lifestyle in the Cotswolds to her social media.
This weekend she spoke with broadcaster Richard Bacon at the Everyman theatre in Cheltenham where she opened up about the huge life changes
Speaking of her love for the UK she said: ‘It’s absolutely beautiful. We’re just not used to seeing this kind of beauty’ (her previous home in the Cotswolds is pictured)
Recently she snapped a photo while standing behind Portia as they looked out at the scenic view of the countryside and a double rainbow following a rainfall.
‘3 things that make me happy: My Wife A Rainbow And my wife taking a photograph of a Rainbow,’ she wrote.
Back in 2020, Ellen was embroiled in controversy after being accused of creating a toxic work environment – and later issued an apology.
After nearly two decades of being on the air, The Ellen Degeneres Show also came to an end just two years later in 2022.
She previously told The Hollywood Reporter, ‘I have to just trust that whatever happened during that time, which was obviously very, very difficult, happened for a reason.
‘I think that I learned a lot, and there were some things that came up that I was shocked and surprised by. It was eye-opening, but I just trust that that had to happen.’
However upon its release, the project garnered mainly mixed to negative reviews and garnered a score of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Recently she snapped a photo while standing behind Portia as they looked out at the scenic view of the countryside and a double rainbow following a rainfall
