Tag: Ellen

Award-winning American actress, director, producer, and activist Laura Dern has opened up about her experience both on and off the set while playing a lesbian character on the sitcom Ellen. Speaking to New York magazine the Jurassic Park Star talked about the historic coming-out episode for her character in the sitcom Ellen over two decades

Ellen kicked off Pride Month today with a really gay episode. The episode was so gay it didn’t even make sense, but it didn’t have to. First, she introduced a segment about parents sending kids to camp. Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” – a song that RuPaul once referred to as a “drag queen classic” – started to play to introduce the segment, and Ellen started lipsyncing. Then a drag queen came out from backstage and lipsynced with Ellen. The segment...

Ellen Degeneres talked about her stepfather’s sexual abuse in an interview. Ellen was talking to David Letterman on his Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction when she brought up her stepfather, who assaulted her when she was a teenager. She said that when she was around 15-years-old, the “very bad man” felt her breasts. “He told me when she was out of town that he’d felt a lump in breast and needed to feel my breasts because he didn’t...

Ellen announced that her show has been renewed for another three years. On The Ellen Degeneres Show yesterday, Ellen said that she has been doing her daytime talkshow for 16 years now, or 3000 episodes. “I don’t remember them but I’m told it was enjoyable,” she quipped. She said that her show is like a relationship and sometimes you need to take a break after 16 years. “But I don’t, you’re stuck with me, because I just signed for three more years,” Ellen...