Ellen DeGeneres has worked in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years.
But the public persona we see when the cameras are rolling may not be who this multi talented
performer truly is behind the scenes.
Here's why Ellen is nothing like she seems.
Dancing overload
DeGeneres can act, host, and crack a hilarious joke with the best of 'em, but if you ever
meet her in person, don't ask her to dance.
In her 2018 Netflix stand-up special Relatable, she revealed that she's come to regret ever
performing her quirky choreography on her talk show.
"I'm not a dancer.
I just danced as a joke.
And then I danced the second day too good, and then the third, and I was locked in.
I was the dancer."
DeGeneres eventually found a way to phase out the dancing from her show, but she's admitted
that fans still ask her to bust a move during chance encounters.
"Whenever they see me anywhere they're like, 'Dance, Ellen, dance!'
And I'm like, 'I'm getting a mammogram.
I can't move right now.'"
Bad words
While hosting a family-friendly daytime talk show, DeGeneres has understandably had to
watch what she says to avoid offending viewers or upsetting her sponsors.
That self-censorship obviously includes avoiding profanity, but there've been times when she
hasn't been able to completely bite her tongue.
DeGeneres once confessed on her talk show that she used every curse word that you can
think of and even "invented three new ones" after a 2017 mishap.
It happened when she enjoyed two glasses of wine and then fell into a door and had to
have her dislocated finger snapped back into place at the hospital.
While you'll have to use your imagination to figure out what particular words she used
in that case, you can actually witness her swearing onstage in her Relatable special.
Here's what she had to say about homes with shoes-off policies.
"I gotta get the f--- out of here."
Ellen vs. her writers
If there's anyone in Hollywood who isn't fond of Ellen DeGeneres, it might just be the people
behind her quips and scripts.
Around the time of the 2007 writer's guild strike, a former writer's assistant from the
short-lived sitcom The Ellen Show anonymously claimed in a since-deleted blog post that
the comedian didn't treat her writers very kindly.
As the assistant put it,
"We'd watch [Ellen] in rehearsals, smiling and winning us over with her charm and comic
timing.
Then the director would yell cut, her face would fall, and she'd level a glare at the
writers."
It was also reported by Deadline during the time of the 2007 strike that many members
of the Writers Guild of America East were disappointed when DeGeneres appeared to cross
the picket line and continued to tape her talk show amidst the strike.
For her part, the host explained on her show at the time,
"I support [the writers] and hope that they get everything they're asking for.
And I hope it works out soon."
Feud with Kathy Griffin
Although it may seem like every celebrity in Hollywood is a fan of Ellen DeGeneres,
there are some who just can't stand her.
And when it comes to her beef with fellow comedian Kathy Griffin, things eventually
got so nasty that the two found themselves in a full-on feud.
In her 2016 book, Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index, Griffin revealed,
"I'm almost positive a certain beloved daytime talk show host once had me kicked out of a
backstage dressing room at the Emmy Awards.
I can't prove it, but this person, who has short blonde hair, has a mean streak that
all of Hollywood knows about."
Griffin later told Access Hollywood how DeGeneres felt about the whole situation.
"She was furious."
For her part, DeGeneres previously told W Magazine in 2007,
"I know [Griffin] had a big thing about wanting to be on the show, and we didn't book her.
She did a whole thing that I banned her from the show.
I didn't ban her from the show, because first you have to be on the show to be banned."
Richer than you think
The fact that DeGeneres makes a lot of money isn't shocking since she is a celebrity, after
all.
But considering that she's not known for a lavish lifestyle, it might be surprising to
learn just how wealthy she is.
While she tends to wear simple blazers and casual sneakers on her show, her unpretentious
wardrobe hasn't necessarily reflected her fortune.
Thanks to her hosting gig, her Netflix special, production work, and licensing fees, as well
as her habit of buying and selling luxury properties, Forbes reported that DeGeneres
is worth an estimated $330 million dollars.
That put her at number 63 on their list of America's Self-Made Women 2019.
She reportedly brought in $87 million during 2018 alone.
While discussing the topic of wealth on her show, DeGeneres noted,
"You shouldn't live your life in fear of money because you're going to manifest that."
And while Ellen DeGeneres doesn't flaunt her wealth, it's plenty clear that she's not afraid
of it.
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