How George Clooney & Amal Clooney’s Kids Inspired His Career Change

The Ellen DeGeneres Show host's eponymous talk show ended in 2022 after a 19-season run amid allegations of a toxic work environment that prompted an internal investigation, multiple firings of executives and public ire.

Ellen returned to the spotlight for her final standup special For Your Approval, which released on Netflix in September 2024. During the lead-up to that special, she revealed she would be leaving Hollywood altogether.

"This is the last time you’re going to see me," she told a crowd during her Ellen’s Last Stand…Up tour, per SFGate. “After my Netflix special, I’m done."

Ellen and her wife Portia de Rossi have since moved to the Cotswolds, deciding to stay put in November 2024 after Donald Trump's reelection, the talk show host told to Richard Bacon in a July 2025 conversation at the Everyman theater in Cheltenham.

"It's absolutely beautiful," she gushed about the English countryside, per the BBC. "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," Ellen continued. "Everything here is just better—the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here. 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."