A few weeks ago, John Legend was my guest host on my show.
And he has a pretty decent singing voice.
So I asked him to serenade someone in the audience,
and here's what happened.
I want to serenade you, so get over here.
Ahh!
(SINGING) You're a retired claims supervisor here
with your husband, Ron.
Oh, and if neither one of us was married,
ooh, we could get it on.
[CHEERING]
(SINGING) And oh, McNesheye everybody.
That made me happy, so I brought them back.
McNesheye, Ron, come on down.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Hi.
[SQUEALS]
Nice to meet you.
How's it going?
Nice to meet you too, Ron.
McNesheye you didn't even say goodbye to your husband.
You ran down, and then during the song,
you just said goodbye to him.
Yeah.
Hashtag bye Ron
[LAUGHING]
Yuh-huh.
Yeah.
How did that feel?
She just left you.
Well, knowing that she loves you,
and she's excited every time she sees you on TV, and to see
and be serenaded by the sexiest man alive--
That's right.
--I was very happy for her.
Aww.
It was a good feeling.
Isn't that generous of you?
[LAUGHING]
She deserved it, so I felt good for her.
That's so sweet.
Y'all are such a cute couple.
You've been married for how long?
We've been 40 years.
We dated for much longer than that.
Right.
So you went to--
[APPLAUSE]
40 years.
But you went to elementary school together.
Yes we did.
But he's three years older than I am,
so I didn't really know him.
Do it again.
I didn't really know him.
So he says-- his story is he saw the cute little girl
with the skinny legs and the long hair.
And he said, I'm going to marry her one day.
And he has been saying this for 55 years.
And believe me, this is my girl.
[LAUGHING]
That's amazing you knew that.
I mean, you knew that in elementary school.
I saw those legs, and I said, I got to have her.
My legs were this big, Ellen.
[LAUGHING]
You got to have those legs.
All right.
So I actually know a lot about you
because after you were serenaded by John,
my producers talked to you.
And I found out that you've been married 40 years,
but you didn't go on a honeymoon.
No, we couldn't afford a honeymoon back then.
So after we got married, we just--
we were kind of poor, so we went to McDonald's.
Right.
OK.
[LAUGHING]
Was that a big treat for you, McDonald's?
Well, to me it was.
Yeah.
All right.
OK.
It was a happy meal.
All right.
[LAUGHING AND APPLAUSE]
That's probably where they got that from.
So you finally took a vacation.
You went to Hawaii for like three days, right?
Yes.
Like three years ago, four years ago?
Yes we did.
Right.
Then, I was a little bit afraid, so I wore my life jacket
the entire time I was on the plane-- the five hour flight.
[LAUGHING]
Five hours going, five hours coming back.
He thought I was insane.
Well, so do I.
[LAUGHING]
I was wondering what was wrong with her.
I mean, don't you think a plane has things like that?
Yeah.
But once it's going down, you have
time to get that thing from underneath and put it on you
and release this.
I had my hand on mine.
I was ready in case that plane went down.
She thought Shamu and company was going to get her.
Right.
Oh my God.
You wore the life vest on the plane.
All right.
Well, I got you-- in case you fly again--
I got you a gift because--
OK.
[LAUGHING]
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
I love that.
All of me loves all of you.
Oh my gosh!
Oh, that's so wonderful.
All right.
That's the best gift ever.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
You can wear it, whether you're in a plane or not.
Whenever you want.
I'll wear this to the grocery store.
Yeah.
All right.
[LAUGHING]
Do you know why I gave it to you?
You know why you need that?
It's because I think you should go on the dream vacation
wherever you want.
So Shutterfly is going to give you $25,000.
Oh my God!
[SQUEALING]
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
What?
Wow!
Oh my God!
Ooh!
We'll be right back.