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'Mean girl': Ellen DeGeneres slammed as 'creepy and weird' by fellow comedian after talk show host fled Donald Trump's America for UK farm life

'Mean girl': Ellen DeGeneres slammed as 'creepy and weird' by fellow comedian after talk show host fled Donald Trump's America for UK farm life

Sky News AU22-06-2025
Comedian Margaret Cho has slammed her "mean girl" former colleague Ellen DeGeneres as "creepy and weird" in a scathing new interview.
During a recent appearance on the Kelly Mantle Show podcast, the comedian described the former talk show host as "somebody that I'd known for such a long time."
"It's so weird now, [the] public perception of her is more true to … she's mean," Cho told host Kelly Mantle. "She was like a mean girl, kind of, but also she would be real nice."
"I think she always had negative feelings toward me because her girlfriends and wives always liked me," the "Drop Dead Diva" alum, 56, claimed of DeGeneres, 67.
"There's a kind of woman [who] loves a female comic. … But yeah, Ellen was really weird, and not nice to me for most of my career," Cho claimed.
The "Notorious C.H.O." star explained that she opened for DeGeneres when she would headline comedy clubs in the '80s, "way before her big fame."
However, Cho said things began to feel different between them once she appeared on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" in the aughts.
"She acted like we just met," Cho claimed. "And I'm like, 'Bitch, what?' That's weird. We go way back."
The former "All-American Girl" actress also claimed DeGeneres "cut" a portion from the latter's interview with David Bowie, where he raved about Cho.
"He was really thrilled about it, and he talked at length about it. And she cut it out of the show, which made me so mad," Cho added.
"The producer, who's a really good friend of mine, had to call me and tell me, 'I can't believe she did this, but she cut it out of the show. You need to know that he was going on and on about your outfit. He loves you,'" the stand-up comedian claimed.
"I don't know if it was personal, maybe it was for time. But still, I'm gonna take it personally because I decided to."
The scathing comments come after DeGeneres was seen appearing to struggle to adapt to life in the UK, with the star sharing footage of herself struggling to complete a common farm chore in May.
In a video filmed by Portia and shared by Ellen on Instagram, the comedian attempted to navigate a ride-on mower to trim the lawns of their sprawling country property.
Later footage showed Ellen atop the stalled mower while an assistant pushed her up a hill.
The former American talk show host and her wife Portia de Rossi moved from Southern California to the Cotswolds, England in November 2024 after they successfully flipped homes for several years in the US.
Donald Trump's presidential re-election was said to have triggered their lifestyle change.
Sources told TMZ The Ellen DeGeneres Show host and Arrested Development actress decided to 'get the hell out' of the US after Trump was victorious over Democrat nominee Kamala Harris last November.
SkyNews.com.au have reached out to DeGeneres' reps for comment.
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