{"id":632629,"date":"2026-10-16T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632629\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:44:08","slug":"ellen-degeneres-longs-for-tv-comeback-4-years-after-workplace-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632629\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres longs for TV comeback 4 years after workplace scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen DeGeneres is missing her old life as a beloved TV host.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve nothing really going on and I really miss being on TV,\u201d the comedian, 68, said during an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@OfficialGrahamNorton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cThe Graham Norton Show\u201d<\/a> Friday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss a lot about it \u2014 laughing with the writers and the audience. I think about doing stuff here. I think it is pretty easy to get on TV here,\u201d DeGeneres, who now lives in the UK, cheekily added.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen DeGeneres appeared on \u201cThe Graham Norton Show\u201d on Friday. Matt Crossick\/PA Images\/INSTARimages<\/p>\n<p>The comedian shared that she misses being on TV. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\">\u201cYou have a pottery show, you have a sewing show, and you even have a show about people watching TV shows,\u201d referring to the UK TV shows \u201cThe Great Pottery Throwdown,\u201d \u201cThe Great British Sewing Bee\u201d and \u201cGooglebox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The poignant confession comes two years after she and her wife, Portia de Rossi, 53, moved from Los Angeles to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The couple fled the US after President Donald Trump was re-elected to a second term and <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/22\/celebrity-news\/ellen-degeneres-shares-new-glimpse-at-her-and-portia-de-rossis-dream-life-in-england-after-fleeing-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moved to the picturesque Cotswolds.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss a lot about it \u2014 laughing with the writers and the audience,\u201d she shared. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n<p>DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, moved to the UK in 2024. Getty Images for RH<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything here is just better \u2014 the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here,\u201d DeGeneres said in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely beautiful,\u201d DeGeneres added. \u201cWe\u2019re just not used to seeing this kind of beauty. The villages and the towns and the architecture \u2014 everything you see is charming and it\u2019s just a simpler way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move also followed the end of her hugely popular talk show after ten former employees accused her of creating a<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/08\/04\/behind-ellen-degeneres-spectacular-fall-from-grace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> \u201ctoxic\u201d on-set atmosphere<\/a> of \u201cracism, fear, and intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the workplace allegations first came out in 2020 \u2014 while the \u201cEllen DeGeneres Show\u201d was still on the air \u2014 DeGeneres<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/09\/21\/ellen-degeneres-returns-to-tv-addresses-toxic-workplace-allegations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> addressed the claims on camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Her talk show ended in a cloud of scandal. Nbc-Tv\/Kobal \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>She was accused of creating a \u201ctoxic\u201d workplace atmosphere. Nbc-Tv\/Kobal \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned that things happened here that never should\u2019ve happened,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cI take that very seriously, and I want to say I\u2019m so sorry to the people who were affected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cEllen\u201d alum continued, \u201cWe have had a lot of conversations over the last few weeks about the show, our workplace and what we want for the future. We have made the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/08\/20\/ellen-degeneres-increasing-employee-perks-amid-scandal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">necessary changes<\/a>\u00a0and today we are starting a new chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeGeneres has kept a low profile in the UK, although she was <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/09\/21\/royal-family\/meghan-markle-spotted-in-uk-for-first-time-since-move-mingles-with-fellow-a-list-transplant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently spotted spending time<\/a> with another celebrity ex-pat, Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n<p>She and the \u201cSuits\u201d alum were photographed chatting at the Three Horseshoes near Burford, Oxfordshire, along with DeGeneres\u2019 wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres is missing her old life as a beloved TV host. \u201cI\u2019ve nothing really going on and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13626,5123,15807,156,36309,111,139,69,18408,40393,138782,437],"class_list":["post-632629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-ellen-degeneres","tag-entertainment","tag-graham-norton","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-portia-de-rossi","tag-scandals","tag-talk-shows","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632629","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=632629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}