{"id":635287,"date":"2026-10-19T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635287\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:10:09","slug":"quentin-tarantino-awkwardly-confronts-ellen-degeneres-in-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635287\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino awkwardly confronts Ellen DeGeneres in encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The pair appeared together on BBC One&#8217;s The Graham Norton Show, where Mr Tarantino questioned why he had never been invited onto Ms DeGeneres&#8217;s long-running US chat show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The exchange was described as an &#8220;awkward moment&#8221; by The Independent, after fellow guest Colin Farrell discussed his numerous appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Host Graham Norton then asked the Pulp Fiction director whether he had ever appeared on the programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26647138.jeremy-clarkson-spotted-filming-cars-italy\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeremy Clarkson spotted filming with cars over in Italy<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Tarantino replied: &#8220;I was never asked.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms DeGeneres responded: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why that is.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Tarantino clarified that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t mean it like that&#8221;, before adding that he had &#8220;always been kind of hoping to be on your show&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms DeGeneres explained that talk show producers were responsible for bringing potential guests to hosts and said she did not know why Mr Tarantino had not appeared.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She added: &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m so glad we&#8217;re meeting now. I don&#8217;t know why you wouldn&#8217;t have been. Let&#8217;s look into this. Now I&#8217;m angry.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26647172.watch-legendary-flying-scotsman-train-departs-oxfordshire\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch as legendary Flying Scotsman train departs Oxfordshire<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms DeGeneres has been living in the Cotswolds since moving to the UK with her wife, Portia de Rossi, in 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The couple arrived in November 2024 after initially buying a property as a part-time home, before deciding to settle in England.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They subsequently moved from their first Cotswolds property to another home on the edge of an Oxfordshire village.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During her appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Ms DeGeneres also spoke about missing elements of her television career and the possibility of working in the UK.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: &#8220;I miss a lot about it, I miss laughing every single day with the writers, I miss the guests, I miss kissing Colin, I miss a lot of it. I think about doing something here.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Ellen DeGeneres Show ran for 19 seasons before ending in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pair appeared together on BBC One&#8217;s The Graham Norton Show, where Mr Tarantino questioned why he had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-635287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635287","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=635287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}