The controversial former talk show host cited the growing conservative call to repeal the right to samesex marriage as one reason for her move. Ellen DeGeneres

The controversial former talk show host cited the growing conservative call to repeal the right to same-sex marriage as one reason for her move.

Ellen DeGeneres tells audience she settled in England because of Trump: 'We're staying here'

The controversial former talk show host cited the growing conservative call to repeal the right to same-sex marriage as one reason for her move.

By Ryan Coleman

Published on July 21, 2025 05:08PM EDT

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Ellen DeGeneres on Zoom in 2020 and Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. in 2025. Credit:

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- On Sunday at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, England, Ellen DeGeneres said she permanently relocated to the U.K. due to Donald Trump's 2024 election win.

- The comedian and former talk show host said she and wife Portia de Rossi originally thought of a U.K. trip to wait out the chaos of November's election, but when Trump won, they decided to stay on.

- DeGeneres cited growing conservative support to repeal the right to same sex marriage.

The latest talk show host to flee Trump's America is Ellen DeGeneres.

Following Rosie O'Donnell, whose move to Ireland DeGeneres supported after President Donald Trump threatened to revoke the citizenship of the former *View *co-host, DeGeneres is opening up about her own relocation to the British Isles.

"We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, 'He got in.' And we're like, 'We're staying here,'" the former *Ellen DeGeneres Show *host told the Everyman Theatre audience in Cheltenham, England, on Sunday. According to NBC, DeGeneres said she and wife Portia de Rossi originally booked flights to England to temporarily wait out the potential chaos of the November election. When the audience asked if Trump's victory over Kamala Harris changed those plans to permanent, she said "yes."**

* *has reached out to a representative for Degeneres for comment.

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Unlike O'Donnell, DeGeneres didn't have to fear the personal animus of the newly re-elected president. Trump and O'Donnell have been locked into a bitter feud for decades, beginning when the latter issued biting criticism of the former's description of his personal fortune as "self-made," as well as handling of a 2006 *Miss USA* scandal, during her time on *The View*.

But given Trump's track record of seeking retribution against his critics - even the mildest - DeGeneres' wariness to remain stateside isn't unfounded. Months into Trump's first term, DeGeneres told disgraced news anchor Matt Lauer that she wouldn't invite him onto her talk show. "He's against everything that I stand for. We need to look at someone else who looks different than us and believes in something that we don't believe in and still accept them, and still let them have their rights."**

Speaking in Cheltenham on Sunday, DeGeneres provided similar reasoning for her move. "I wish we were at a place where it was not scary for people to be who they are. I wish that we lived in a society where everybody could accept other people and their differences," she said. "So until we're there, I think there's a hard place to say we have huge progress."

More specifically, DeGeneres cited growing conservative opposition to same sex marriage as a reason to stay in England: ""They're trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it... Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we're going to get married here."**

Ellen DeGeneres on stage at the 2023 special 'Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love'.

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DeGeneres' support for O'Donnell is notable given O'Donnell's recent comments on "some stuff in the past that we never resolved" that has kept the trailblazing comedians from being close. "I don't want to fight against another gay woman... It's not like we're tenaciously opposed to each other. We're just very different people," O'Donnell shared in April.

2020's cascade of allegations regarding the allegedly toxic environment DeGeneres fostered on her talk show, which led to the long-running series' concluding in 2022, and to DeGeneres significantly stepping back from the public eye, may also play some role in her decision to move abroad. In the wake of those allegations, more of her peers detailed their own strained relationships with DeGeneres, including Margaret Cho, who revealed in June that DeGeneres was "really weird and not nice to me for most of my career."

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