Ellen DeGeneres finally confirms Trump influenced her sudden move to the UK: ‘We’re staying here’
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Ellen DeGeneres confirmed she and wife Portia de Rossi’s decision to move to the UK was due to President Donald Trump’s reelection.

The comedian said they couldn’t be happier with the the move during a conversation with British host Richard Bacon onstage in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Sunday, per the BBC.

DeGeneres said that while she and the “Arrested Development” alum only planned to stay in the UK for a couple of months in 2024, the move became permanent last November after Trump won the presidential election against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

They now live in a house they purchased in the Cotswolds of England.

“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,’” she recalled. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here.’”

DeGeneres said she and de Rossi are loving their rural life in the UK with their animals — including horses and her chickens.

“It’s absolutely beautiful,” DeGeneres said. “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,” she continued. “Everything here is just better — the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.”

The former daytime talk show host also shared she and de Rossi might get married again in the UK. The two tied the knot in August 2008 at their home in Los Angeles.

“The Baptist Church in America is trying to reverse gay marriage,” she explained. “They’re trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it. Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we’re going to get married here.”

“I wish we were at a place where it was not scary for people to be who they are,” she added. “I wish that we lived in a society where everybody could accept other people and their differences.”

DeGeneres later hinted at a possible return to show business, though said it would not be in the format of her former talk show, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

“I just don’t know what that is yet,” she said of what her potential next move. “I want to have fun, I want to do something. I do like my chickens but I’m a little bit bored.”

DeGeneres, 67, and de Rossi, 52, sold their two-bedroom, two-bathroom beach bungalow in Montecito, Calif., for $5.2 million in March.

She has given glimpses of her new farmhouse life in England, also changing up her look by dying her hair brunette.

DeGeneres recently showed her support for fellow comedian Rosie O’Donnell — despite their past beef — after Trump threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s citizenship, despite not having the power to do so.

She shared a screenshot of O’Donnell’s clapback, writing, “Good for you @rosie.”

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