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It's not easy being a celebrity. These 20 mega stars from the '00s took a break from the Hollywood lifestyle.

Entertainment News / TV Insider / October 11

Ellen DeGeneres Welcomes New Family Member After Devastating Loss

Nearly five months after she and wife Portia de Rossi said goodbye to her dog Augie, Ellen DeGeneres has a new canine friend in her life. “Meet Sport,” the comedian wrote on Instagram on Friday, October 10, captioning a photo of a white and brown puppy.

Entertainment News / TV Insider / September 29

Ellen DeGeneres Pays Tribute to Former ‘Ellen’ Guest Tayt Andersen After Death at Age 19

Ellen DeGeneres is mourning the death of one of her most memorable talk show guests. DeGeneres took to Instagram on Friday, September 26, to pay tribute to Tayt Andersen, who died at the age of 19 that same day.

Entertainment News / BANG Showbiz / September 13

Ellen DeGeneres sued for negligence

Ellen DeGeneres is being sued for negligence. The 67-year-old former talk show host has been accused by an unnamed woman of causing a car accident when she ignored a stop sign while driving in Santa Barbara County on 16 October 2023, and "t-boned" the plaintiff's car.

Entertainment News / BANG Showbiz / September 10

'One of the most painful things that ever happened to me...' Rosie O'Donnell recalls Ellen DeGeneres denying their friendship

Rosie O'Donnell found Ellen DeGeneres' denial of their friendship was "painful." The 63-year-old star felt betrayed that her fellow former talk show host, 67, seemed to have forgotten that they had been friends for "30 years" when she appeared on Larry King Live in 2004 and insisted she and Rosie were not pals.

Entertainment News / BANG Showbiz / August 13

Ellen DeGeneres 'has never been happier'

Ellen DeGeneres is "in her element" in rural England. The 67-year-old TV star and Portia de Rossi, her wife, swapped the US for the Cotswolds in 2024, and the celebrity duo are loving life in their new surroundings.

Entertainment News / BANG Showbiz / July 31

Ellen DeGeneres accused by comic Adam Carolla of leaving her former TV chat show staff ‘scared’

Ellen DeGeneres has been accused by comic Adam Carolla of leaving her former TV chat show staff “scared”. The 67-year-old comedian’s career on the small screen has come to an end after she was branded the “Queen of Mean” over her alleged behaviour behind the camera towards her workers.

Entertainment News / TV Insider / July 24

Ellen DeGeneres Sets Career Comeback Following Comments About Missing Daytime Show

Ellen DeGeneres is making some new career moves three years after the end of her eponymous talk show. Deadline reported on Thursday, July 24, that DeGeneres has signed with WME to represent her in all aspects of her career, except for comedy tours.

Entertainment News / BANG Showbiz / July 21

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi 'looking into' getting remarried in UK

Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi are considering getting remarried in the UK if the US overturns same-sex marriage. The couple - whose move

Entertainment News / Total Apex Entertainment / June 26

Margaret Cho Speaks Out About Feeling Disrespected By DeGeneres

Margaret Cho has been in comedy for a long time. At 14, she started writing jokes, then at 16, she was doing stand-up. She dropped out of San Francisco State University to pursue comedy and then went to New York City to work in comedy clubs.

Entertainment News / BANG Showbiz / June 23

Ellen DeGeneres been hit with accusations she treated female comic pal coldly for decades

Ellen DeGeneres has been hit with accusations from a female comic she treated her coldly for decades despite the two comedians having known each other since the 1980s.

Entertainment News / BANG Showbiz / June 22

Margaret Cho slams 'not nice' Ellen DeGeneres

Margaret Cho has slammed Ellen DeGeneres for being "not nice" to her. The 56-year-old comic first crossed paths with the former talk show host on the stand-up circuit in the 1980s, so she always found it "really weird" that Ellen would pretend they had never met when she appeared on her eponymous daytime programme.

Entertainment News / Yardbarker

20 groundbreaking LGBTQ+ characters from the TV & film world

The LGBTQ+ community has had a very vexed relationship with popular culture. For a very long time, members of the community were either not represented at all or were shown to be disturbed or villainous. However, the past couple of decades have seen a sea-change in representation, and though there’s been some backsliding, there are more LGBTQ+ figures on TV than ever before. As Pride Month is around the corner, it’s worth looking back at some of the most groundbreaking figures in film and TV and appreciating just how far society has come and how far it still has to go.

Entertainment News / Total Apex Entertainment / May 22

Ellen DeGeneres’ Vibrant Social Media Revival: Triumph Over Loss

Late last year, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi lost their dog, Augie, in a tragic event. On Instagram, the couple posted about leaving their home in Montecito, California, for the Cotswolds in the UK.

Entertainment News / TV Insider / February 21

‘Ellen’ & ‘Dallas’ Actress Alice Hirson Dies at 95

Veteran actress Alice Hirson, who played Ellen DeGeneres‘ mom on her eponymous 1990s sitcom and Mavis Anderson on Dallas, has died. She was 95. According

Entertainment News / BANG Showbiz / February 4

Alison Holker believes Stephen 'tWitch' Boss was never same again after ayahuasca trip

Allison Holker believes Stephen 'tWitch' Boss "wasn't the same" after embarking on an "ayahuasca journey". The 36-year-old dancer was heartbroken when

Entertainment News / TV Insider / February 4

Allison Holker Blames ‘Ellen’ Ending for ‘Shift’ in tWitch 7 Months Before His Death

Stephen “tWitch” Boss worked on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for more than eight years before it came to an end in May 2022, and his wife, Allison Holker, said she noticed a change in him following the talk show’s finale.

Entertainment News / Yardbarker / May 27, 2021

Kevin Hart's 16-year-old daughter is coming for his job

Kevin Hart has approximately 500 different jobs at any given time in the entertainment industry, so it makes sense that his 16-year-old daughter, Heaven, wanted to get into the family business as soon as possible.

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Entertainment News / Yardbarker / May 6, 2021

Ellen DeGeneres recounts how her astrologist predicted her daytime talk show success

The Ellen DeGeneres Show hit 3,000 episodes last week, and the titular host joined The Late Late Show with James Corden's 914th episode last night (May 4) to give credit to her former neighbor who saw all of this coming.

Thomas Rhett talks 'embracing the dad life'

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Entertainment News / Yardbarker / April 16, 2021

Watch Andra Day channel Billie Holiday to sing 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'

Andra Day has won one Golden Globe and is nominated at the upcoming April 25 Oscars for her titular role in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, and while the Lee Daniels-directed film focuses on the FBI's efforts to silence Holiday from singing "Strange Fruit," Day channeled the late jazz icon to sing something else on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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Entertainment News / Yardbarker / April 7, 2021

Don Johnson 'in heavy prep' for the 'Nash Bridges' reboot

Don Johnson is dipping his toe in the sitcom waters for the first time on NBC's Kenan, but the Golden Globe-winning actor has not lost touch with his earlier work.

Mark Ruffalo comes clean to David Schwimmer that he never watched 'Friends'

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