Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres are among the moderators tapped to appear with former first lady Michelle Obama on her upcoming tour for her book The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.
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Still hurt. Rosie O’Donnell is getting candid about why she’s not exactly close pals with Ellen DeGeneres.
While on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on Thursday, September 15, the former Rosie Show host, 60, admitted to feeling some tension between herself and the Ellen alum, 64.
Though O’Donnell had DeGeneres as a guest on her talk show — which aired from 1996 to 2002 — the Finding Nemo voice actress never invited O’Donnell to her eponymous program until the end of its 19-season run.
“Did they not ask [you to appear]?” Andy Cohen asked.
“No,” O’Donnell responded. “We had a little bit of a weird thing, and after my show went off the air and hers was coming on the air, Larry King was on with Ellen and he said, ‘What ever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tubes! She came out as a lesbian and disappeared!'”
The Now and Then actress continued: “And Ellen said — and I’m quoting — ‘I don’t know Rosie. We’re not friends.’ I was in bed with [ex-wife] Kelli [Carpenter] and I said ‘Did I just hear that? Or was that a hallucination, auditory voice in my …’ And that’s what happened. And it hurt my feelings like a baby. And I never really got over it.”
While Cohen believed that DeGeneres “never asked” the former View cohost to come on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, O’Donnell clarified that producers did as her once toward the end of the series’ run.
“I was gonna go on for [the Showtime series] SMILF, but I wanted to bring someone else with me so it was a little less awkward,” she explained. “They didn’t want to do that.”
As for how O’Donnell feels now, she mentioned at the end of the conversation that she only wishes DeGeneres “all good things in her life” and that she “be well.”
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Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres are among the moderators tapped to appear with former first lady Michelle Obama on her upcoming tour for her book The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Michelle Obama is hitting the road this fall to publicize her upcoming book “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,” and a star-studded lineup of moderators is scheduled to appear alongside the Former First Lady for tour dates across the country.
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Rosie O’Donnell is still hurt by a rude comment Ellen DeGeneres made about her. The actress joined Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, where she revealed why she has no interest in having a friendship with the former host.A curious fan asked why O’Donnell was never on DeGeneres’ show during its 20-year run. O’Donnell revealed they never asked her and explained, “We had a little bit of a weird thing.” “After my show went off the air, and hers was coming on the air, Larry King was on with Ellen, and he said, ‘Whatever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tubes.
Rosie O’Donnell is shedding some insight on why she’s not close with Ellen DeGeneres and why she never appeared on her show. During a conversation with Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens Live," O’Donnell, 60, admitted that a conversation DeGeneres, 64, had in the past with Larry King really "hurt her feelings." O'Donnell was joined by "The Office" star Brian Baumgartner during her appearance on Cohen's show. O’Donnell told the Bravo host she invited DeGeneres on her talk show. However, the former "View" co-host shared that she was not invited on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" until the end of the 19th season.
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Rosie O’Donnell is getting candid about her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres.
Rosie O'Donnell may have paved the way for Ellen DeGeneres, but the 60-year-old actress and TV personality never appeared on DeGeneres' long-lived talk show. DeGeneres, now 64, jokingly came out as «Lebanese» on in 1996 ahead of her character coming out as a lesbian on her show. At the time, O'Donnell hinted that she too was a member of the LGBTQ+ community years before she publicly came out. But O'Donnell never appeared on On Thursday's, a fan asked why O'Donnell never appeared as a guest throughout the 19-season run of DeGeneres' famed talk show. «We had a little bit of a weird thing,» O'Donnell told Cohen of DeGeneres.
Rosie O’Donnell revealed why she’d never been on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in its 20-year run as she chatted to Andy Cohen on Thursday’s “Watch What Happens Live”.