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Sky News AU
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
'They were scared': Bombshell Ellen allegations emerge after talk show host fled Trump's America
Comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla recently appeared on the After Party podcast and reignited criticism of disgraced talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, 67. During the podcast, the former Man Show host, 61, claimed Ellen's staff were traumatised by her behind the scenes behaviour and lived in constant fear. Reflecting on his experience as a former guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show 13 years ago, he said the atmosphere backstage was unusually tense and unlike anything he had ever seen. Carolla said, 'I once talked to someone who wrote for Ellen and he said, 'She's not the worst person I've ever worked for… she's the worst and meanest person I've met.'' "I knew they were scared because it's like, I was just sitting in the my dressing room and their like segment producer came in, and he went, 'All right, so we went over all the stuff we're going to talk about,' you know, Christmas vacation or whatever it was," Carolla began. "And and I go, 'Yeah, yeah.' "And he goes, 'You're not going to talk about meat or beef or anything like that, right?" 'And I go, 'No, I'm not.'" During that time Ellen was widely known as a committed vegan. Carolla continued: "And [the segment producer] like came back like 20 minutes later right before I went out, and he's like, 'Okay, but don't talk about beef or meat or any[thing]'." 'This guy is scared to death,' Carolla recalled thinking at the time. 'Now everyone knows what I knew 15 years ago,' he added. 'I knew how her staff were cowering.' Carolla made an appearance on Ellen's show in March, 2012. In 2020 a BuzzFeed investigation revealed accounts from ten anonymous former employees and one current staff member who described the toxic environment involving racism, discrimination, intimidation, and being fired for taking medical leave or attending family funerals. One employee said they quit after becoming fed up with the racist comments. Others described a workplace culture built on fear, where raising concerns risked losing their jobs. Her show was eventually cancelled in 2022 in the wake of widespread backlash. DeGeneres and her wife, Australian actress Portia de Rossi, permanently relocated to the UK after Donald Trump's return to the White House. Earlier this month, DeGeneres told the BBC the pair initially planned to spend just a few months each year in the UK and purchased what they believed would be a "part-time house" in the Cotswolds in 2024. But the couple decided to stay put after Trump defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the latest US election. "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'." She expressed fears over proposed rollbacks of LGBTQ+ rights under Donald Trump's influence, describing America as a scary place for people to be who they are.
Daily Mail
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Ellen guest makes new bullying claims
By Published: | Updated: Comedian Adam Carolla has made a series of startling new claims about Ellen DeGeneres' 'notoriously hellish' former chat show. The former 'Man Show' host said staff on 'Ellen' 'were scared, real scared' during his two guest spots on the program, during a podcast appearance Tuesday. Speaking to conservative commentator Emily Jashinsky, Carolla, 61, provided a pair of anecdotes as purported proof. The first saw Carolla recall being repeatedly reminded by a 'scared-to-death' page to avoid certain topics before going on air. The second involved a writer for the show branding his then-boss 'the worst person I've ever met.' 'I knew they were scared because it's like, I was just sitting in my dressing room and their like segment producer came in, and he went, "All right, so we went over all the stuff we're going to talk about," you know, Christmas vacation or whatever it was,' Carolla began. 'And I go, "Yeah, yeah." 'And he goes, "You're not going to talk about meat or beef or anything like that, right?" And I go, "No, I'm not. I'm just going to talk about the stuff we talked about — going on vacation at Christmas or the kids or, you know, their anecdotes."' At the time, DeGeneres had been a devout vegan — a lifestyle she has since abandoned. 'Okay. All right. Okay. All right,' Carolla recalled the staffer saying, after making one appearance on DeGeneres's show in March 2012 and another on an undisclosed date that Daily Mail has not been able to confirm. 'And he like came back like 20 minutes later right before I went out, and he's like, "Okay, but don't talk about beef or meat or any[thing]," Carolla continued. 'I was like, "Oh, this guy's scared to death."' Carolla then offered up another never-before-heard tale about the show that was canned after allegations of toxicity from its longtime host surfaced in 2022. 'Later on, I talked to someone who signed an NDA, so I won't say his name, but he wrote for Ellen,' Carolla explained. 'I just went, "How's Ellen?" 'And he said, "Worst person, uh, worst person. Not worst person I've worked for. Worst person I've ever met,"' the comic recalled. Carolla — who hosted 'The Man Show' with Ellen's former ABC colleague Jimmy Kimmel in the early 2000s — then revealed the staffer had also worked for Rosie O'Donnell's daytime show during the 90s and was still adamant his then-boss was the worst of the bunch. '[This was] when Rosie was the Official Chub Club,' Carolla pointed out, referring to the title of a book O'Donnell wrote the foreword for in 1999, titled, 'You Don't Have to Be Thin to Win: The Official Chub Club Coach's Workout Program.' 'The worst and the meanest,' he said of the comic who, like DeGeneres, has left the country due to disapproval toward Donald Trump. After nearly two decades of being on the air, showrunners decided to pull the plug on the program in 2022. DeGeneres, 67, told The Hollywood Reporter that year, 'I have to just trust that whatever happened during that time, which was obviously very, very difficult, happened for a reason. I think that I learned a lot, and there were some things that came up that I was shocked and surprised by. It was eye-opening, but I just trust that that had to happen.'
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rainn Wilson Says 'Left-Leaning News' Has a 'Passion' Against Trump Administration
Rainn Wilson is voicing his opinion on the current state of political media. During a conversation with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on his Soul Boom podcast last Thursday, the pair discussed the differences in the way the media covers Donald Trump's presidency versus Joe Biden's time in the Oval Office. More from The Hollywood Reporter Larry David Pens Satirical "My Dinner With Adolf" Essay, Mocking Bill Maher's White House Visit Despite a Court Order, White House Barred AP From Oval Office Event Jimmy Kimmel Responds to Critics Who Resurface 'Man Show' Clips to Call Him a "Hypocrite" Ruhle argued there's a current 'concerted effort to destroy the media' that stemmed from a lot of people 'tuning out' the news following Trump's second win and 'the Elon Musk media machine.' Continuing, she said, 'what we need to do is just cover what's happening in America.' Wilson did not agree. 'This is where I would push back when I see this kind of insight and passion being directed at the current administration, and the lack of this insight and passion being directed at the previous administration,' he said. 'I'm talking about left-leaning news media organizations [who] were kind of like, 'La la la la la everything's fine, look the economy's great, la la la, immigration's not that much of a problem,' and really being Cleopatra Queen of Denial,' he added. Ruhle argued the media was critical of Biden's approach to immigration while corroborating Wilson's sentinment. 'What Republicans have been successful at — and they have not solved any of these issues for the American people — but they're willing to talk about some of the unpleasant things that people feel that when people say those things out loud they're immediately called xenophobic or racist,' Ruhle said. Wilson agreed, adding, 'A large majority of people who have a problem with the current immigration crisis are not racist but [are] often kind of tarred as racist by the liberal left.' The Emmy nominee has been an avid environmental activist throughout his career and told The Hollywood Reporter he was 'greatly disappointed in the fact that so few celebrities' speak up about climate change 'because essentially they're afraid of turning off a large portion of their fan base.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Hollywood's Highest-Profile Harris Endorsements: Taylor Swift, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen and More Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2024: Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Olivia Rodrigo and More
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘American Psycho' Director Says 'Wall Street Bros' Missed Point of Film: 'A Gay Man's Satire on Masculinity'
American Psycho director Mary Harron said she's 'mystified' by the way the 2000 film has been 'embraced by Wall Street bros.' The filmmaker recently chatted with Letterboxd Journal about the 'sigma male' social media phenomenon and how some men have grown to look at Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman as a role model. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Home Alone 2' Director Chris Columbus "Wishes" He Could Cut Trump's Cameo: "It's Become This Curse" Seth Rogen's Criticism of Silicon Valley's Support for Trump Was Cut From the "Full" Stream of Breakthrough Prize Jimmy Kimmel Responds to Critics Who Resurface 'Man Show' Clips to Call Him a "Hypocrite" 'I'm always so mystified by it,' Harron said. 'I don't think that Guinevere [Turner, American Psycho writer-actress] and I ever expected it to be embraced by Wall Street bros, at all. That was not our intention. So, did we fail? I'm not sure why [it happened], because Christian's very clearly making fun of them… But, people read the Bible and decide that they should go and kill a lot of people. People read The Catcher in the Rye and decide to shoot the president.' However, The Notorious Bettie Page director added that 'Wall Street bros' actually missed the overall point of the film, which follows Patrick Bateman, a wealthy New York City investment banking executive who hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies. 'It was very clear to me and Guinevere, who is gay, that we saw it as a gay man's satire on masculinity,' Harron explained. '[American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis'] being gay allowed him to see the homoerotic rituals among these alpha males, which is also true in sports, and it's true in Wall Street, and all these things where men are prizing their extreme competition and their 'elevating their prowess' kind of thing. There's something very, very gay about the way they're fetishizing looks, and the gym.' In Ellis' novel, Patrick Bateman also idolizes Donald Trump, who is currently serving his second term as the U.S. president. While American Psycho is set during the Reagan era in the '80s, when the AIDS Epidemic hit the LGBTQ community, the filmmaker was taken aback at how the story has aged over time, as transgender rights are now under attack by the Trump administration. 'It was about a predatory society, and now the society is actually, 25 years later, much worse. The rich are much richer, the poor are poorer,' she said. 'I would never have imagined that there would be a celebration of racism and white supremacy, which is basically what we have in the White House. I would never have imagined that we would live through that.' As American Psycho celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, Luca Guadagnino is set to helm a new film adaptation for Lionsgate. Best of The Hollywood Reporter "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked 20 Times the Oscars Got It Wrong
