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Simply two years after Ellen DeGeneres advised the viewers at a stand-up present that she was “going bye-bye,” the comic has notions of returning to tv. The twist? DeGeneres is now a U.Okay. resident, so her daydreams contain being on Channel 4 as a substitute of NBC. Throughout a Friday look on The Graham Norton Present, DeGeneres revealed that she’s considered attempting to do British TV.
“I’ve nothing actually happening, and I actually miss being on TV,” DeGeneres, who moved to the Cotswolds in 2024, mentioned, per Individuals. “I miss so much about it — laughing with the writers and the viewers. I take into consideration doing stuff right here.” She added that it appears “fairly straightforward to get on TV right here.”
“You might have a pottery present, you will have a stitching present, and also you also have a present about individuals watching TV exhibits,” DeGeneres mentioned, referring to The Nice Pottery Throw Down, The Nice British Stitching Bee, and the British establishment Gogglebox. She clearly knew to not come near slandering The Nice British Bake Off.
In 2020, DeGeneres confronted studies that her daytime present fostered a “tradition dominated by worry” for its staff, a number of of whom alleged they’d confronted racism and harassment from producers. She ended the present two years later and denied that these claims had something to do along with her leaving, saying as a substitute that the present was “simply not a problem anymore.”
What can be a problem is returning to tv throughout the pond. Are British individuals curious about her fashion of humor? Do they like jump-scare-based pranks over there? Fortunately for DeGeneres, there are extra child steps she will take to search out out. Personally, I might pay some huge cash to observe her take part in one of many U.Okay.’s many celeb-forward actuality exhibits. Put her within the turret on the British Superstar Traitors and see what occurs.
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