I moved to the UK because of Donald Trump

US TV star Ellen Degeneres made her first public appearance after moving to the UK, saying he decided to settle in England the day after Donald Trump was re -elected president.

The comedian and the host said to the crowd in Chelton, Glustrasire that life “is just better” in the UK.

Ellen said that she and her wife Portia de Rossi were considering getting married in England after some moves in the United States to turn the right to gay marriages and that America could still be “scary for people as they are.”

She also addressed the allegations of a toxic workplace, which led to the end of her long -standing chat show in 2022, admitting she could be “very dull”, but rejected stories like “Clickbait”.

Ellen has been one of the biggest names on American television for 30 years, thanks to her daily chat show, as well as for her Sitcom of the 1990s, for the Oscars, Grammy and Emmy, and even in finding Nemo.

After her talk show was canceled, she went to a “final stand tour” in the United States 2024, after which he bought a house in Kotswolds, a historic and picturesque zone covering mainly parts of Glustshire and Oxfordshire.

On Sunday at the Everyman Theater in nearby Chelton, she was in conversation with television operator Richard Bacon, who asked if reports that she had moved because of Donald Trump were correct. “Yes,” she replied.

The 67-year-old said she and De Rossi initially planned to spend three or four months in the UK and purchased what they thought would be a “part-time house”.

“We got here the day before the election and woke up for many texts from our friends with crying emoji, and I was like,” He came in, “she said. “And we’re like” We stay here. “

Ellen looks at her new rural life on social media, in videos showing their farm animals, including sheep – although they are now sold after they continue to escape.

“It’s absolutely beautiful,” she said. “We’re just not used to seeing this kind of beauty. The villages and cities and architecture – everything you see is fascinating and it’s just a simpler lifestyle.

“It’s clean. Everything here is just better – the way animals are treated, humans are polite. I just love it here.

“We moved here in November, which was not the perfect time, but for the first time I saw snow in my life. We love it here. The gate flies here my horses, and I have chickens and we had a sheep for about two weeks.”

On her last tour, she joked that she was “out of show business twice” – the first time she came out as a gay in 1997.

This effectively led to the end of her sitcom after the advertisers pulled out and the network stopped promoting it, she told Celton’s crowd on Sunday.

Bacon asked if her visibility had encouraged other people to go out. “I would say no,” she replied. “I imagined that many people come out as a meerkat from the hole and they were back again.” How is it doing? Okay, no, no. “

But this is a “really difficult solution” that does not fit everyone, she continued, and said that things are better today “somehow”, but not others.

“If it was (better), all those other people who are actors and actresses, whom I know they are gay, would be out but not because it is still a problem. People are still scared.”

Ellen also refers to A recent move of the Southern Baptist Convention Approve the annulment of a case by the Supreme Court, allowing same -sex marriage. At least nine state legislative authorities have introduced bills to do the same.

“The Baptist Church in America is trying to turn gay marriages,” she said. “They are trying to literally stop this from happening in the future and possibly turn it.

Later, in response to an audience’s question, she added: “I want to be in a place where it was not scary to be the way they are. I want to live in a society where everyone can accept other people and their differences.

“So, as long as we are not there, I think there is a difficult place to say that we have tremendous progress.”

However, the younger generation is “more comfortable with it” and they are “just a kind of liquid,” she added. “So I think the younger generation will show us the way.”

After some former workers in her talk show have accused of toxic culture in the workplace, the star – who finished each episode, telling viewers to “be kind to each other” – was called “mean” in the media.

Following the scandal, three producers were fired against the backdrop of the allegations of violation and sexual harassment, and the last season of the show opened Ellen, apologizing on the air.

She addressed this in her tour in 2024 and the accompanying specialty Netflix Stand-up.

“No matter what, any article that appeared was like” she’s mean “and how to handle it without sounding like a victim or” poor “or complaining? But I wanted to deal with her.

“It’s as simple as, I’m a direct person and I’m very dumb. I guess sometimes it means … I’m evil?”

She also said it was “something crazy” that saying that someone is evil “may be the worst thing you say about a woman.”

“How dare we have any mood or you cannot be other than nice, sweet, sweet and submissive and smug.”

She added, “I don’t think I can say something that will ever get rid of this (reputation) or distract it, which is harmful to me.

It was “certainly an unpleasant way to finish” her talk show, she said.

Ellen said she missed her “lot” for her show, but does not think that such a format will work more.

“I want to say, I would like to do it because I would do the same here. I would be glad to do it again, but I just have the feeling that people are watching their phones, or people don’t really pay attention so much on TVs because we are so flooded with information and fun.”

She said she did not know what he would do in the future, but would choose her next move “very carefully”.

“I just don’t know what it is,” she said. “I want to have fun, I want to do something. I like my chickens, but I’m a little bored.”