{"id":27097,"date":"2025-07-28T09:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27097\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:05:31","slug":"ellen-degeneres-says-she-moved-to-britain-because-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27097\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres says she moved to Britain because of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON \u2014 Ellen DeGeneres<\/a> has made no secret of her new British life, posting social media clips of sheep charmingly trotting into her luxury rural home while she mows the lawn of the sprawling estate, her trademark hair now natural and undyed.<\/p>\n

On Sunday she confirmed for the first time that she moved to the United Kingdom permanently for one reason: the election of President Donald Trump<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got here the day before the election<\/a> and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, \u2018He got in.\u2019 And we\u2019re like, \u2018We\u2019re staying here,\u201d she told an audience at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, central England.<\/p>\n

After her long-running talk show ended amid allegations of workplace bullying<\/a>, DeGeneres, 67, bought a home in England\u2019s picturesque Cotswolds region with her wife, \u201cArrested Development\u201d star Portia de Rossi<\/a>, 52.<\/p>\n

With its honey-colored stone, lush greenery and chocolate-box villages, tis 800 square-mile haven is home to a slew of celebrities, including David and Victoria Beckham<\/a>, music mogul Simon Cowell and supermodel Kate Moss.<\/p>\n

It was initially meant to be a transatlantic bolt-hole, she said. But asked Sunday whether Trump\u2019s election cemented the move as permanent, she answered an unequivocal, \u201cYes,\u201d in comments the theater confirmed as accurate Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything here is just better,\u201d DeGeneres said, lamenting the state of her homeland.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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,\u201d she said. \u201cSo until we\u2019re there, I think there\u2019s a hard place to say we have huge progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for a response to the criticisms.<\/p>\n

DeGeneres also referred to moves by the Southern Baptist Convention to endorse banning same-sex marriage<\/a> and overturning a Supreme Court ruling legalizing it nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it,\u201d she said. \u201cPortia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we\u2019re going to get married here.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also addressed the demise of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”<\/a> after 19 seasons, almost two decades and more than 60 Emmys after staff members complained of a toxic workplace environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a direct person, and I\u2019m very blunt, and I guess sometimes that means that,” she said with a pause, “I\u2019m mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

The theater’s CEO, Mark Goucher, said in an email that it “was a huge privilege to meet her and have her at The Everyman. Our door will always be open to our new neighbor.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeGeneres is not the first person to have toyed with leaving America’s increasingly polarized social and political landscape.<\/p>\n

Starting in June last year, around the time of President Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous TV debate against Trump<\/a>, Google data showed a spike in the number of Americans searching \u201chow to move to X country,\u201d according to an analysis by CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In early February, days after Trump\u2019s inauguration, a poll of 2,000 people by Talker Research<\/a> found that 17% wanted to leave in the next five years, with the top destination of choice being Canada; 69% of those respondents said they didn\u2019t like the direction the country was headed in, and 65% said it had become too toxic.<\/p>\n

Trump has previously given short shrift to potential wantaways. \u201cIf you\u2019re not happy, you can leave,\u201d he said in 2019.<\/p>\n

While DeGeneres appears to be enjoying an idyllic rural life, there is some evidence the grass may not be greener on the other side of the pond.<\/p>\n

Though the U.K. is often vaunted for its universal free health care, public transportation network and lack of mass shootings, it actually performs worse than the United States on a raft of quality-of-life indices measured by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which tracks such data.<\/p>\n

Out of 40 countries in the OECD, the United States ranks 10th in the \u201cBetter Life Index,\u201d<\/a> which rates nations on everything from housing and income to life satisfaction, community and work-life balance. The U.K. is 14th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Ellen DeGeneres has made no secret of her new British life, posting social media clips of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-27097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}