Ellen DeGeneres isn't leaving the UK
Ellen DeGeneres isn’t leaving the UK, despite she and her wife Portia de Rossi splashing out millions on a new home in Montecito, California.
Ellen DeGeneres isn’t leaving the UK.
Although the 68-year-old TV star and her wife, Portia de Rossi, 53, recently splashed out on a $27.4 million home in Montecito, California, the couple have no plans to leave rural England where they settled in 2024.
A source told Us Weekly: “They are still planning to live full-time in the UK but will spend a few months of the year in Montecito.”
Ellen and Portia - who have been married since 2008 - swapped the US for the Cotswolds in 2024, after contemplating a move for some time.
A source previously told Us Weekly: "They had visited before and looked at homes but weren’t sure when they would do it. When they found the right place, they jumped on it."
Ellen previously claimed that "everything" is "just better" in the UK.
The TV star admitted that she was relishing her new lifestyle since making the move to England.
She told broadcaster Richard Bacon: "It's absolutely beautiful. We're just not used to seeing this kind of beauty. The villages and the towns and the architecture - everything you see is charming and it's just a simpler way of life.
"It's clean. Everything here is just better - the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here."
Ellen - who hosted her own TV talk show between 2003 and 2022 - explained that she has been enjoying the rural lifestyle since leaving the US in 2024.
She said: "We moved here in November, which was not the ideal time, but I saw snow for the first time in my life. We love it here. Portia flew her horses here, and I have chickens, and we had sheep for about two weeks."
DeGeneres also confirmed that she and de Rossi moved to the UK because of President Donald Trump’s re-election.
She said: “We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in’. And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here.’”
