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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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.
«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. She came out as a lesbian and disappeared!' And Ellen said, and I'm quoting, 'I don't know Rosie.
We're not friends.'»O'Donnell was stunned by the moment, saying, «I was in bed with Kelli [Carpenter, O'Donnell's first wife], and I said, 'Did I just hear that or was that a hallucination, auditory voice in my [head]?' It hurt my feelings, like a baby, and I never really got over it.» O'Donnell shared that DeGeneres' team asked her «once towards the end» to come on the show. She requested to bring someone with her to make it «a little less awkward,» but said the show «didn't want to do that» and so she passed. As for her thoughts on the retired daytime comedian, O'Donnell said of DeGeneres, «I wish her all good things in her life and that she should be well, so there you go.» ended in May 2022 after 19 seasons on the air.
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.
Ariana Grande has sold her impressive Montecito estate for $9.1 million. The singer, actress, and businesswoman bought the house from Ellen Degeneres for $6.75 and made it her own with a few modern updates.The English Tudor-style home was initially built in Surry, England.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly looking for a new home in a private Californian community, just a couple of years after their move to the US.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are keen to move to the Hope Ranch community, a coastal suburb of Santa Barbara, California, because their $14 million mansion in Montecito "does not properly accommodate them," according to reports. When Meghan gave an interview with The Cut earlier this year, the reporter described their Montecito mansion as "startlingly big" but it seems the couple apparently aren't totally content in the property.
It seems the Duke and Duchess of Sussex may be on the hunt for new digs.
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Ellen DeGeneres has been accused of abandoning Greyson Chance after taking him under her wing in 2010. Chance opened up about his experience with DeGeneres during a new interview with Rolling Stone. He became a viral sensation in 2010 after a video of him singing Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" landed him on "The Ellen Show." Shortly after the appearance, DeGeneres set Chance up with agents and a label, according to the musician.
Greyson Chance spoke out with claims against Ellen DeGeneres, who helped raise his profile with many appearances on her talk show over the years. Now, sources close to her are responding.
Greyson Chance is speaking out about his experience with former mentor Ellen DeGeneres.
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Ellen DeGeneres is «manipulative,» «blatantly opportunistic» and «way too controlling» hours after a report surfaced detailing his once close relationship with DeGeneres and their fallout.The 25-year-old singer posted a video on TikTok Thursday and said he stands behind all of what he said in an explosive profile in which the singer also referred to DeGeneres as «domineering» in the months and years that followed after his 2010 appearance on as a 12-year-old who went viral when he performed Lady Gaga's «Paparazzi» at his Oklahoma middle school. «And I stand behind all of it,» Greyson said. «You know, I've been wanting to tell this story now for multiple years and was repeatedly told not to but the truth is, what you saw on TV and what was pitched out to the mainstream just wasn't what was happening behind the scenes.»Chance also said that getting older has helped him find perspective after all of these years.«Now that I'm 25 and I'm older, I can recognize that what happened to me as a kid was not cool,» he added.
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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.
In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Anne Heche wrote about what it was like for her to date Ellen DeGeneres.
Anne Heche died, the 53-year-old actress was ready to tell the world the whole story of the Hollywood hate she endured during her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s. Heche, who passed away in Los Angeles on Aug. 11 following a tragic car crash, detailed the discriminatory backlash she faced as half of Tinseltown’s first publicly gay couple in her forthcoming memoir “Call Me Anne,” the Associated Press reported. In the book, to be released in January by independent publisher Start, Heche grapples with the uncertainty of how to label her sexuality at the time, when she felt she didn’t identify as a lesbian or a straight woman. “I was labeled ‘outrageous’ because I fell in love with a woman.