Ellen DeGeneres Heartbreak: Host Couldn’t Stop Doing This Days Before Show’s Finale
After a 19-year run, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" will air its last episode on May 26, 2022.
According to Page Six, Ellen DeGeneres was and is still quite emotional in the two weeks leading up to the end of her award-winning talk show.
According to reports, the 64-year-old TV star has been "crying a lot."
"The entire period leading up to the finale was quite emotional."
Ellen recorded her farewell episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on April 28 at the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, where she has called "home" for the previous 20 years.
Jennifer Aniston and Pink will be among the A-list celebrities appearing in the final show.
On September 8, 2003, the two celebs were the first to appear on her show.
Billie Eilish, Michelle Obama, Zac Efron, and Justin Timberlake are reportedly expected to appear on the last episodes of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
While the "Finding Dory" voice actress was sad to see her long-running program come to an end, she apparently wanted to end it simply - she didn't want to go out with a bang.
There was no red carpet during her farewell performance, as some knew she had desired.
Another source said Ellen DeGeneres wants to terminate her program "quietly."
Her close friends and family from the cast and crew were present in the audience for her farewell episode.
According to a third source, Ellen did it completely on her own terms.
"She went out the way she wanted to," they revealed. On the last day, there wasn't a dry eye in the house."
Portia de Rossi, Ellen DeGeneres' wife, was allegedly on the set of her show in the final two weeks to encourage her, as were other of the comedian's friends and family, including brother Vance DeGeneres.
On her sitcom of the same name twenty-five years ago, Ellen came out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Her chat program was apparently innovative as well.
However, following a controversy that nearly forced her to resign in 2020, a different source close to the host-comedian observed that "people forget this was a culture-changing program."
"When Ellen first started the program, she was informed by the studio, 'you can't use 'we' when you talk about your partner,' and that's what she was dealing with at the time," they revealed.
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" aired more than 3,000 episodes from 2003 until 2022.
