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\u201cWe went through a lot of male employees just in general,\u201d they said, claiming DeGeneres went through nine stage managers in just one season. \u201cWe had a feeling she really didn\u2019t like guys.<\/p>\n
Why? Seemingly because DeGeneres was upset if male staffers \u201cwere ever caught in conversation with Portia.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi in the press room for People\u2019s Choice Awards 2017 – Press Room, Microsoft Theatre L.A. Live, Los Angeles, CA January 18, 2017. Photo By: Elizabeth Goodenough\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n
For those who don\u2019t know, DeGeneres and Rossi met back in 2001 at a Rock the Vote concert. However, they didn\u2019t get together until 2004. When they reconnected in 2004, they split with their respective partners, and they started dating. The pair later got engaged, and married in Aug 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before DeGeneres, Rossi was with director Francesca Gregorini from 2000 until she got together with DeGeneres. And before that, she dated actress Guinevere Turner from 1998 to 2000. The last time she was dating a man was with documentary filmmaker Mel Metcalfe, with whom she got married in 1996, but divorced three years later. (She previously said<\/a> it was for a green card, but it didn\u2019t pan out, and they did have a wonderful friendship!)<\/p>\n Since then, she\u2019s only been with women, and even publicly came out as a lesbian <\/a>years later. Even in her book, Unbearable Lightness<\/a>, she talked about when she realized she was gay<\/a>: at 18 years old. She said, \u201cThe thing that made me think I wasn\u2019t [heterosexual] was I developed very strong feelings for my best friends, for my girl friends, that were stronger than friendship. And I had a series of mini-heartbreaks throughout my teens because my fantasy of what life could be like with my best friend wasn\u2019t shared with my best friend. My best friend wanted to get married to a man and have kids and I just wanted to be with them. And that\u2019s when I thought something was definitely different about me. So really it took until I was about 18 when I realized I have to date other lesbians if I was ever going to fulfill that fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n Before you go, click here<\/a> to see which celebrities own the most homes around the world.<\/p>\n Oprah Winfrey<\/p>\n More Top Deals from SheKnows<\/p>\n Best of SheKnows<\/p>\n Sign up for SheKnows’ Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7532,7842,96,7630,26093,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-95238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ellen-degeneres","9":"tag-ellen-degeneres-show","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-portia-de-rossi","12":"tag-sheknows","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Oprah](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4c0cbd482d352fcc35e796ed6e07e1d5.jpeg\"\/)
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