Ellen DeGeneres is saying “bye-bye” to indicate enterprise, two years after the trailblazing comic and host ended her daytime speak present after 19 seasons.
On July 1, the 66-year-old DeGeneres took the stage on the Luther Burbank Heart for the Arts in Santa Rosa, Calif., as a part of a three-night set for her Ellen’s Final Stand… Up comedy particular. The particular is meant to seize the comic’s stand-up tour, which kicked off June 19 and can run via Aug. 17. Nonetheless, DeGeneres introduced onstage that she’s retiring from the trade altogether after the particular airs on Netflix later this yr.
“That is the final time you’re going to see me,” she mentioned throughout an viewers Q&A after the present, based on San Francisco’s SFGate. “After my Netflix particular, I’m carried out.”
Days later, the comic abruptly canceled 4 of her tour dates — in Dallas (July 10), San Francisco (July 21), Seattle (July 23) and Chicago (Aug. 11).
The occasions come 4 years after a number of experiences detailed allegations of racism, sexual misconduct and intimidation behind the scenes of her speak present — and a viral thread on X that painted her as “one of many meanest individuals alive.” DeGeneres delivered a number of on-air apologies concerning the accusations in 2020, and three high producers have been fired after WarnerMedia carried out an inside investigation. Her present ended two years later.
So, what’s occurring with DeGeneres? Right here’s every part that’s gone down since she introduced her farewell tour on Could 29.
July 3: Dates are canceled abruptly
In keeping with Deadline, live performance promoter Stay Nation knowledgeable those that purchased tickets for DeGeneres’s performances in Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago that “the Occasion Organizer has needed to cancel your occasion.”
Neither Stay Nation nor DeGeneres gave a purpose why they have been canceled, however ticket holders will reportedly obtain full refunds. The dates have been additionally faraway from her web site.
In the meantime, the host is constant along with her different scheduled stops, having not too long ago shared a video on her Instagram Tales driving to the airport for her July 8 present in Denver. She additionally introduced a ticket giveaway within the put up.
July 1: DeGeneres says she’s ‘carried out’ with Hollywood
Throughout her set in Santa Rosa, DeGeneres was requested if she’d be showing in movies or on Broadway within the close to future.
“That is the final time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix particular, I’m carried out,” she mentioned throughout an viewers Q&A, based on SFGate. When a fan adopted up by asking if she plans to reprise her function as Dory in Disney and Pixar’s Discovering Nemo and Discovering Dory, she emphasised that call.
“No, I’m going bye-bye, keep in mind,” she retorted.
Throughout her set, DeGeneres claimed she was “kicked out of present enterprise for being imply” whereas opening up about how the 2020 accusations affected her life. “I used to say, ‘I don’t care what individuals say about me.’ Now I understand I mentioned that in the course of the peak of my reputation,” she mentioned.
She added, “I may be demanding and impatient and hard. I’m a robust girl. I’m many issues, however I’m not imply.”
The comic later referenced when her hit sitcom, Ellen, ended one yr after she got here out as a lesbian in 1997, placing her profession on maintain till she premiered The Ellen DeGeneres Present in 2003.
“For these of you holding rating, that is the second time I’ve been kicked out of present enterprise,” she joked. “Subsequent time, I’ll be kicked out for being previous. Outdated, homosexual and imply, the triple crown.”
April 3: DeGeneres broadcasts her comedy tour
After asserting the multi-city Ellen’s Final Stand… Up tour on April 3, DeGeneres later revealed it will be filmed as a Netflix particular, her “final.” Then on Could 29, she made it clear that it will even be her “closing” comedy tour.
In doing so, she additionally hinted that no matter can be off the desk within the particular, together with the 2020 accusations that led to her speak present ending in 2022.
“To reply the questions everyone seems to be asking me — Sure, I’m going to speak about it,” she wrote on Instagram, including, “Sure, that is my final particular. Sure, Portia actually is that fairly in actual life.”
Quickly after asserting the tour, DeGeneres opened up about her present’s cancellation throughout a comedy set in West Hollywood, Calif., on April 24, admitting that she “hated the way in which the present ended.”
“I like that present a lot and I simply hated that the final time individuals would see me is that means,” she mentioned on the time, per Rolling Stone.
The incidents took “such a toll on my ego and my shallowness,” she added. “It was so hurtful. I couldn’t achieve perspective. I couldn’t do something to make myself perceive that it wasn’t private. I simply thought, ‘Nicely this isn’t the way in which I needed to finish my profession, however that is the way in which it’s ending.’”
