Ellen DeGeneres will be “done” with entertaining after her next Netflix special.
The former talk show host has confirmed her impending retirement after Ellen’s Last Stand … Up Tour hits screens later in 2024 and her latest stand-up stint.
Speaking to the audience at her show in Santa Rosa, California, fans asked when and where they can see her next.
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“Um, no. This is the last time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix special, I’m done,” the entertainer said.
She continued: “Thank you for still caring!
“Let me catch you up on what’s been going on with me since you last saw me. I got chickens.”
The 66-year-old star discussed the end of her long-running program, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which ran from 2003 until 2022, but was marred by accusations of toxic behaviour by several executives in 2020, who were subsequently let go.
“Oh yeah, and I got kicked out of showbusiness for being mean,” she quipped.
DeGeneres then suggested she would be “kicked out for being old next”.
“Old, gay and mean – the triple crown,” she said.
DeGeneres then joked: “I used to say, ‘I don’t care what people say about me’. Now, I realise I said that during the height of my popularity.”
She insisted. “I am many things, but I am not mean.”
DeGeneres returned to the public eye in April with her stand-up show at the Largo in Los Angeles, California.
“I got kicked out of show business. There’s no mean people in show business … (I became the) most hated person in America … the hate went on for a long time and I would try to avoid looking at the news,” she said.
“The ‘be kind’ girl wasn’t kind. That was the headline.”
