{"id":260232,"date":"2026-01-31T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260232\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:13:09","slug":"ellen-degeneres-goes-mansion-shopping-despite-nationwide-protest-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260232\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres Goes Mansion Shopping Despite Nationwide Protest Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ellen DeGeneres<\/a>\u2019 gander across the pond looks like it hit pause — ’cause she popped up back in Montecito mansion-hunting … the same day of calling for a nationwide shutdown.<\/p>\n

The ex-talk show host preached in an IG post, “no work, no school, no shopping” in protest over ICE brutality in Minnesota — something tons of other Americans have been preaching today — but that vibe didn\u2019t exactly stick while out in luxe-land touring not one, but two mega-mansions Friday. Talk about do as I say, not as I stroll!<\/p>\n

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Take a look at these pics — these weren\u2019t casual Zillow scrolls — we\u2019re talking $35M and $17M spreads, beach strolls, full walkthrough mode with wife Portia de Rossi<\/a> by her side.<\/p>\n

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Quite the pivot from the chilly UK life she embraced for political reasons while vowing to “get the hell out”<\/a> of the States over Donald Trump<\/a>‘s election.<\/p>\n

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Though politics seemed to be back on her mind — calling for a shutdown while ironically house-hunting in one of Cali\u2019s richest zip codes.<\/p>\n

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Guess that’s celeb activism for you. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres\u2019 gander across the pond looks like it hit pause — ’cause she popped up back in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-260232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}