It may be January, but it's still
the holidays in Milford, Massachusetts
because that's where I sent Jeannie
to surprise a deserving family.
Jeannie, are you there?
Ooh, you look cold.
Hi, Jeannie.
Hi, Ellen, it's very cold.
How--
It's very cold.
How cold is it?
When I checked, I think it was 20 degrees.
Oh, that's cold.
So cold.
We want you to get inside soon, then.
Tell us who you're surprising.
Thank you, thank you.
OK, so today we're here surprising Fernanda, her mom,
Elisette, and her sister, Marjorie.
Ellen, these ladies are some of your biggest fans.
Fernanda has written in to tell you
how you have inspired this family
to give back even though they don't have that much.
They are just the most amazing women with the biggest hearts
and I know they're gonna be so surprised.
I'm so excited.
All right, before you--
I send you in, I'm gonna give Fernando a call and see--
we are getting new doors but we will never get a new phone.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
I mean, it's filthy, we don't even clean it.
It's like--
[LINE RINGING]
Hello?
Hi, is this Fernanda?
This is Fernanda.
Hi, Fernanda, how are you?
I'm well, how are you?
I'm good, I'm good.
What are you doing?
Um, I'm sitting down.
Hm.
Oh, I forgot to tell you who this, it's Ellen Degeneres, hi.
[SCREAMING]
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING]
No, wait, really?
Are you?
[SCREAMING]
This is Ellen!
Ah!
Fernanda, is somebody knocking at your door?
[KNOCKING]
[SCREAMING]
Oh my god!
No!
Hello?
Wait, is this really you?
Hello?
Is this really you?
Well, it's-- this is me, yes.
I'm just gonna go in.
Yeah, just go on in.
[SCREAMING]
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING]
Ellen!
Hi.
Hi, how you doing?
Ellen, I love you so much, oh my god!
[INAUDIBLE]
Well--
I can't believe this!
I wanted to surprise you, I heard
you're all big fans of the show.
I'm a huge fan of the show--
Someone fell down.
--I watch you every day, I mean, I've been--
I've been--
Marjorie, Marjorie, are you OK?
Are you OK, Marjorie?
Marjorie?
Can you believe that Ellen's right there--
[SCREAMING]
Ellen!
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
Ah!
No big deal, Ellen's just in your house.
Are you a big fan of Ellen, Marjorie?
Tell Ellen how much-- tell Ellen.
Ellen, you mean the world to me, I love you!
Oh my god!
OK, everybody just settle down.
Everybody, deep breaths.
All right, good, you're OK, stand up.
All right, so you're all originally from Brazil,
is that right?
When did you come to the US?
Maybe like, 16 years ago?
I was 12, a long time I spoke no English, I had no friends,
I was very depressed.
I remember in ESL class I literally sat by myself
because I didn't know how to communicate.
So here's what's amazing.
I heard that the show has helped get you
through some difficult times, and what's
really amazing is that even though--
And-- and--
--go ahead.
Oh, my god.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
They're in shock, they're in shock, Ellen.
All right, let me--
You're supposed to be--
I can't believe it!
Let me just--
Marjorie, it's OK.
All right, we're gonna take a break,
let Marjorie have some water, we're gonna send a nurse.
We'll get her water, Ellen, we'll get her water.
We're gonna take a break.
We'll be right back.
Marjorie's on her feet, we're back.
We just surprised Fernanda and her mom
and sisters in Massachusetts.
What's-- here's why we're there with you,
because what's amazing is even though your family doesn't have
much, you give what you can.
Tell everybody what you do.
This is amazing.
Well, I've been sponsoring a child
from Haiti for the past eight years
now through a program called World Help.
You know, it's-- I pay, you know,
$40 every month and I wish I could give more but right now
that's all I can do, and I want to sponsor more kids,
and I want to be able to adopt him.
Every Sunday my mom and I go to this place down the street
called Johnny Jack's.
We always pick someone who we think is in need
and we pay for their breakfast.
We buy groceries for families, we just keep on giving back.
It just makes me feel so good that we're
able to do that because it could be me tomorrow.
That could be me tomorrow.
All right, tell-- and then you go to Dunkin' Donuts.
Tell me-- tell everybody what you do there.
This lady right here.
That's me.
[LAUGHING]
OK so every morning when I go to work,
I used to stop by Dunkin' Donuts and pay
for the coffee for the person behind me.
It makes me feel so good, and you were the one
who inspired me doing that.
Even the little I have, I feel so comfort because you,
because of you I can do that, and I feel so proud of myself.
Yes, you should feel proud of yourself.
That's amazing.
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
So here's what I want to do.
For being such amazing fans we want to give the three of you
a VIP trip to the show, so we're gonna fly all of you
to the show.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
[SCREAMING]
One more thing also, one more thing
before we go, just really quickly.
So you watch the show every day, you said, right?
Yes!
So did you watch the-- you saw the "12 Days of Giveaways"
shows this year?
Yes!
What was your favorite thing that I gave away?
What do you think?
The-- the-- the-- no, the magic mirror.
I love the magic mirror.
That magic mirror is fantastic.
You were-- we were--
I worked out to that this morning.
OK, so I'm gonna send you each-- you'll have a magic mirror,
I'm sending you the magic mirror, OK?
[SCREAMING]
What else?
Did you-- what else did you like?
What else-- what else did you like?
What's another thing you really liked?
The iPhone X.
IPhone X.
Oh, the-- the iPhone.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
The hotel in Fort Lauderdale--
iPhone and the trips.
And the trips, all the trips.
You know what?
This is gonna-- wait, wait, this is gonna take too long.
I'm just gonna give your family everything we gave away.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING]
Oh!
[SCREAMING]
Oh my god!
[INAUDIBLE]
And another one's down.
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
All right.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
You're getting everything.
That is worth more than $50,000 of gifts.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
I'll see you all soon.
I wanna thank Heidi Klum and Burt Ward.
See you tomorrow, be kind to one another, bye-bye.
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[SHRIEK]
Oh, [BLEEP]!
God [BLEEP]!