Ellen DeGeneres’ Move To The UK Is Reportedly For ‘Retirement’

It’s no longer news that Ellen DeGeneres has relocated to the United Kingdom with her wife, Portia de Rossi. Reports had earlier suggested that the couple made the move because of Donald Trump’s recent win at the November 5 election.

However, it has now been revealed that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s relocation is part of the former TV host’s “retirement” plan as she settles to live her life away from the public eye after coming under fire for fostering a toxic work environment.

According to the Daily Mail, the former “Ellen DeGeneres Show” host’s relocation to the U.K. wasn’t just a response to the outcome of the recently-held U.S. election but also her resolve to retire her enduring TV career.

Reports previously suggested that the couple made the move because Trump won the 2024 presidential race. However, insiders told the news outlet that the couple already planned to move before the elections for DeGeneres to kick off her “retirement.”

“Make no mistake about it. This is Ellen and Portia’s retirement,” the source shared. “Neither one of them have any projects lined up.”

“Ellen really felt she had made her mark on the industry, but that was diminished when she was canceled over her alleged treatment of her staff,” the source added. “Then to have celebrities call her out one by one was so hurtful.”

Another source shared that the way people’s attitudes towards DeGeneres changed, following reports that she fostered a racist and harsh work environment, was enough to see her leave the country.

“With all the ill will towards her, she was looking to move away even before the election,” the source began. “And as things panned out with Trump winning, she is glad she is making the move and going to be away from the US.”

The source continued, “She has the one person that still loves her, Portia, and she is ready to leave everyone who in her mind left her hanging out to dry. If she considers it her retirement, so be it.”

“An enormous part of the US doesn’t like her because of her sexual preferences, and others were turned off by her persona, which some perceived to be fake in the wake of the workplace allegations,” they explained.

The source added that DeGeneres finds it “easier to move away from her problems” than to “confront them,” adding that the whole incident “seems like a sad end to what she once was in people’s minds.”

DeGeneres and De Rossi had since acquired a home in the Cotswolds area, a rural community in southwest England that sits 100 miles outside of London.

The couple is reportedly preparing to place their Montecito mansion up for sale, which means they’re permanently calling it quits on American life.

Their new home was reportedly purchased months before the U.S. elections, with a source sharing that they’d earlier traveled to England to see the property and that DeGeneres had “fallen in love with the property in the Cotswolds,” per The Sun.

“She has been on the lookout for a house in the area and often visits her celebrity pals,” they added. “A Cotswolds house has become a status symbol in the celebrity world, and Ellen wanted to join the pack.”

DeGeneres and de Rossi have seemingly settled down in their new neighborhood as they were spotted visiting Clarkson’s pub in the Cotswolds last week.

Their new home boasts A-list neighbors like David and Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss, Patrick Stewart, Elizabeth Hurley, Jeremy Clarkson, and Damien Hirst, among many others.

Following the allegations that she was toxic to her staff, DeGeneres was seemingly canceled, with her show subsequently airing its last episode on May 26, 2022.

She talked about her fall from grace on her stand-up Netflix special “For Your Approval,” where she joked about getting “kicked out of show business” for being “mean,” as well as then becoming the “most hated person in America.”

“The hate went on for a long time, and I would try to avoid looking at the news,” DeGeneres recalled, per People Magazine. “The ‘be kind’ girl wasn’t kind. That was the headline.”

Noting how she ended her talk show each day by saying, “Be kind to one another,” DeGeneres joked that it became a “problem” because people started to think of her as a “one-dimensional character who gave stuff away and danced up steps.”

She then spoke about how she was able to go through the trying phase with the help of her wife and that they’re both “dancing now.”

“I’m making jokes about what happened to me, but it was devastating,” she said. “It took a long time for me to want to do anything again.”