Following the re-election of President Donald Trump in November, 2024, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi fled the country for the United Kingdom – then they experienced one single European winter and decided to tough it out in California.
Roughly a year ago, DeGeneres dropped two bombs on her stateside fans back-to-back. The first was her god-awful Netflix stand-up special For Your Approval, in which she spent an hour justifying her infamous and lengthy rap sheet of workplace abuse with nary a punchline in sight, then DeGeneres declared that she and her wife would wait out the second Trump Administration in the U.K. where DeGeneres' arrogant, self-pitying and completely remorseless routine is only slightly less tasteless than the food.
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However, the U.K.'s Daily Mail recently reported that DeGeneres and de Rossi's self-imposed exile could soon come to an end, even claiming that the couple “dread the thought of another British winter.” Now, according to the outlet, DeGeneres and de Rossi are mulling their return to Southern California, where they can channel that bitter iciness towards a twenty-year-old production assistant with no health benefits.
“Ellen was adamant that she and Portia were going to stay in the UK while Trump was in the White House, but evidently she's changed her mind somewhat,” The Daily Mail's source claimed. “She's been telling friends they are coming home soon because they miss them and can't take the winters over there, and Portia wants to act again. They will be here for the holidays and longer by the sound of it.”
As The Daily Mail notes, DeGeneres and de Rossi put their sprawling, bucolic estate in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire up for sale back in July with a staggering £22.5 million price tag, indicating that the couple are serious about the switch. "Ellen was very clear that they're coming back to California sooner rather than later. They miss the warm weather and their friends," said the source.
While life in America during Trump's second term has hardly been idyllic, from the crumbling economy to the desecration of vital institutions to the mass state-sponsored violence, - all that havoc is nothing compared to a 35 degree (Fahrenheit) January day lounging in a mansion atop the rolling hills of rural England.
Like, seriously, half of America has a harsher winter than the one that the U.K. gets, and we also have to live in a country where the federal government is waging war on civil rights while destroying what's left of the social safety net. If DeGeneres ever spent a single Christmas in upstate New York, she'd probably come out of the experience talking about it like she's Tiny Tim Cratchit.
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