One of the vital profitable — and, by its conclusion, some of the controversial — runs in tv historry has come to an finish.
On Thursday, Ellen DeGeneres introduced on Twitter that she and her crew had filmed the ultimate episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Present, a program that lasted for 19 seasons and earned 12 Daytime Emmy Awards.
“At present we taped the ultimate episode of ‘The Ellen Present’ which airs on Might twenty sixth,” Degeneres Tweeted.
“After we began this present in 2003, the iPhone didn’t exist. Social media didn’t exist. Homosexual marriage wasn’t authorized. We watched the world change, typically for the higher, typically not.”
Added the comic:
“However no matter was occurring, my aim was all the time for the present to be a spot the place we may all come collectively and giggle for an hour.
“Being invited into your lives has been the best privilege of my life and has introduced me unimaginable pleasure.
“Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.”
For years and years, DeGeneres was generally called one of many kindest and hottest celebrities in Hollywood.
Nonetheless, that largely modified in 2020 after a Buzzfeed article was revealed that quoted quite a few former speak present staff.
They categorized the office setting on The Ellen DeGeneres Present as poisonous, pointing to quite a few cases of bulllying, racism and sexism from this system’s govt producers.
Ellen herself was by no means straight accused of any wrongdoing, however these similar staff emphasised that she was conscious of the troubling habits — and did nothing to cease it.
In a July 2020 letter to workers obtained by varied shops, the host stated she’d all the time needed the present to be a “place of happiness,” and she or he apologized for the problems that had taken place.
“Clearly, one thing modified, and I’m dissatisfied to be taught that this has not been the case,” she wrote.
“And for that, I’m sorry.
“Anybody who is aware of me is aware of it’s the alternative of what I consider and what I hoped for our present.”
The Emmy winner added that the accusations had been “very hurtful” to her, however she claimed they weren’t the rationale she determined to finish the present final yr.
“If I used to be quitting the present due to that, I wouldn’t have come again this season,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter.
On Thursday’s finale, in the meantime, DeGeneres celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of her former sitcom’s iconic coming-out episode.
DeGeneres mirrored on her expertise, saying to the viewers “take a look at me now.”
For these in want of a refresher:
On April 30, 1997, DeGeneres herself did not simply publicly come out as homosexual … her character on the ABC sitcom Ellen did as nicely.
The episode titled “The Pet Episode” was taped in entrance of a reside viewers, one thing she addressed on this week’s taping.
“After I got here out, folks warned me that it was going to wreck my profession, and so they had been proper for some time,” Ellen stated throughout her opening monologue on Thursday.
“Really, for precisely three years, I misplaced my profession. However take a look at me now.”
DeGeneres was met with loud applause on her last day of filming, as she pressured the significance of studying to simply accept and embrace folks for his or her “genuine selves.”
DeGeneres — whose last season friends included such A-Listers as Jennifer Aniston, Kim Kardashian, Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy, Julianne Moore, Melissa Etheridge and Meghan Markle — has been married to spouse Portia De Rossi since 2008.
She confirmed by way of Twitter in March 2022 that the speak present’s finale will air on Might 26, Tweeting:
“I’m going to overlook this.”
