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Ellen DeGeneres


Air. On September 4, 2018, TCL, announces it's extension as the Official TV of The Ellen DeGeneres Show for a fifth consecutive season. On August 15, 2018, it was announced that DeGeneres would partner with Walmart to launch a fashion collection under the brand name EV1, a low-cost alternative to her ED Ellen DeGeneres product. The collection officially launched on September 10, 2018 with price points under $30. On May 26, 2010, DeGeneres announced on her show that she was starting her own
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announced that the comedian would be leaving "American Idol" after one season. In a statement, DeGeneres said that the series "didn't feel like the right fit for me". Starting in the 2017-2018 television season DeGeneres began hosting the game show Ellen's Game of Games on NBC which is based, and expands on games played on her talk show. The series had a preview episode on December 18, 2017 with regular episodes beginning the following January. DeGeneres received wide exposure on November 4, 2001,
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show


The Ellen DeGeneres Show (often shortened to Ellen and stylized as ellen) is an American television variety comedy talk show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. Debuting on September 8, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBCUniversal. For its first five seasons, the show was taped in Studio 11 at NBC Studios in Burbank, California. From season 6 onwards, the show moved to being taped at Stage 1 on the nearby Warner Bros. lot. Since the beginning of the sixth season,
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Mine" during its first season. The ABC show was popular in its first few seasons due in part to DeGeneres' style of observational humor; it was often referred to as a "female "Seinfeld"." "Ellen" reached its height of popularity in April 1997, when DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on "The Oprah Winfrey Show". Her character on the sitcom also came out of the closet to her therapist, played by Oprah Winfrey. The coming-out episode, titled "The Puppy Episode
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The Ellen Show


The Ellen Show is a television sitcom created by and starring Ellen DeGeneres that was broadcast during the 2001–02 season on CBS. It was DeGeneres's second attempt at a sitcom, following "Ellen" on ABC (1994–98), but it was unable to attract strong ratings and was quickly cancelled after 13 episodes, leaving 5 episodes unaired. It is on the Roku channel. DeGeneres came out as a lesbian in "Ellen", and her character on "The Ellen Show", Ellen Richmond, was also a lesbian,
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Chris Kluwe


Kluwe appeared on the January 18, 2013, episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," to discuss his support of same-sex marriage. Ellen DeGeneres inducted Kluwe as the first inductee in her Hall of Fame, since NFL punters are unlikely to be voted into the league's hall of fame. On April 16, 2013, in recognition of his steadfast support of same-sex marriage and for starting a conversation about LGBT issues in athletics, Kluwe was named the Grand Marshal of the 41st annual Twin Cities Pride festival
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The Puppy Episode


, DeGeneres focused her energy on stand-up comedy, where she had begun her career. She returned to network television in 2001 with the short-lived "The Ellen Show", in which her character Ellen Richmond was openly lesbian from the start, before finding renewed success with her talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", beginning in 2003, which as of the last quarter of 2018 is still running and is in its sixteenth season. Guest star Laura Dern faced backlash over her appearance on the show. In
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her 2,000th show in December 2015. On September 9, 2009, it was confirmed that DeGeneres would replace Paula Abdul as a judge of the ninth season of "American Idol". Her role started after the contestant auditions, at the beginning of "Hollywood Week". It is reported that DeGeneres also signed a contract to be a judge on the show for at least five seasons. She made her "American Idol" debut on February 9, 2010. However, on July 29, 2010, DeGeneres and Fox executives
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Shelby Dressel


everybody back home because they've seen somebody from their town go to Hollywood and be on national television. After her dismissal from season 9 of American Idol, the new co-host, Ellen DeGeneres, was quick to invite Dressel to her show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show . While judging on Idol, DeGeneres said to Dressel, "I love your voice and I love your confidence." On her show, DeGeneres said, "There's a girl named Shelby who I thought was really amazing," when she told
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Gimme More


", the character of Brett Craig screams the catch phrase before starting a fight in a bar. During a skit in a 2008 episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", in which Ellen DeGeneres and Spears sang Christmas carols through a neighborhood, DeGeneres said the catch phrase when knocking on a door. "It's Britney, bitch" was also included in a video backdrop during the performance of "Human Nature" (1995) in Madonna's 2008-09 Sticky & Sweet Tour. In the video, Spears was
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Ellen DeGeneres


DeGeneres returned to television in 2001 with a new CBS sitcom, "The Ellen Show", which was cancelled after 13 episodes. In September 2003, DeGeneres launched a daytime television talk show, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". One of several celebrity-hosted talk shows surfacing at the beginning of that season, including those of Sharon Osbourne and Rita Rudner, her show has consistently risen in the Nielsen ratings and received widespread critical praise. It was nominated for 11 Daytime Emmy Awards in its first season, winning four,
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Ellen DeGeneres


Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( ; born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in the popular sitcom "Ellen" from 1994 to 1998 and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," since 2003. Her stand-up career started in the early 1980s, and included a 1986 appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". As a film actress, DeGeneres starred in "Mr. Wrong" (1996),
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Jane and Ellen moved with Gruessendorf from the New Orleans area to Atlanta, Texas. Vance stayed with his father. On a February 2011 episode of her show, she told her studio audience of a letter from the New England Historic Genealogical Society confirming she is 15th cousin to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, via their shared common ancestor Thomas Fairfax. When she was 15 or 16 years old, she was molested by her stepfather. DeGeneres graduated from Atlanta High School in May 1976, after completing her first years of high school
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Diva TV


Media channel 165 until 1 April 2010. Diva TV closed on 14 February 2012 at midnight with its most popular programmes shifted to the Style Network. The move followed NBCUniversal's acquisition by Comcast in March 2011 and affected only the UK market. From April 2011, Diva TV no longer aired "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". Diva TV have cited being "unable to attract enough viewers to make the show viable for the channel". From 19 September 2011 Really picked up "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" starting from season 9
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" from 1994 to 1998, and "The Ellen Show" from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of "Ellen" in 1997, she came out as a lesbian in an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show". Her character, Ellen Morgan, also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues, including the coming-out process. In 2008, she married her longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi. DeGeneres has hosted the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards
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Ellen (TV series)


' theme song (used in season 3 onwards), is a version of "So Called Friend" by Scottish band Texas with altered lyrics. A running gag during the third and fourth seasons was that each episode had a distinct/different opening credits sequence (often with singing and dancing), resulting from Ellen's ongoing search for the perfect opening credits. In 1997, "Ellen" made television history when the title character came out as a lesbian in the famous "Puppy Episode" (DeGeneres herself came out concurrent
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Betty DeGeneres


DeGeneres in 1952. The couple divorced in 1974. Shortly afterwards, DeGeneres married Roy Gruessendorf, who moved the family to Texas. Their marriage ended in the early 1980s; Gruessendorf died in 1997. In 2005, Ellen spoke publicly for the first time about the molestation she had suffered from her stepfather when she was a teenager. DeGeneres returned to LSU after the age of 50 to complete her master's degree in speech pathology. DeGeneres is the author of two books: "Love, Ellen: A Mother Daughter Journey"
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stayed for one season until Okungbowa returned. In a 2012 episode, DJ Pauly D from "Jersey Shore" deejayed when Okungbowa was promoting his CD. Starting in season 11, several episodes include celebrity "guest DJs" filling the DJ position in Okungbowa's absence. The most frequently appearing guest DJ is Stephen "tWitch" Boss of "So You Think You Can Dance" fame. Okungbowa made a return appearance on the show in the April 28, 2014 episode, while Loni made a return in the June 5,
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Football League and has shown particular support for the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers. In 2011, she attended a Saints practice dressed as Packers Hall of Famer Don Hutson. In 1997, DeGeneres came out as lesbian. The disclosure of her sexual orientation sparked intense interest by American tabloids. The contentiousness of the media coverage stunted DeGeneres' professional career and left her "mired in depression". In her book "Love, Ellen", DeGeneres' mother, Betty DeGeneres describes being initially shocked when her daughter came
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", was one of the highest-rated episodes of the show. The series returned for a fifth season but experienced falling ratings due to ABC's cutting back on promoting the show. It was believed that The Walt Disney Company, ABC's parent owner, had become uncomfortable with the subject matter depicted on the show now that DeGeneres' character was openly gay. In May 1998, "Ellen" was canceled. DeGeneres returned to stand-up comedy and later re-established herself as a successful talk show host.
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started performing stand-up comedy at small clubs and coffee houses. By 1981, she was the emcee at Clyde's Comedy Club in New Orleans. DeGeneres cites Woody Allen and Steve Martin as her main influences at this time. In the early 1980s she began to tour nationally, and in 1984 she was named Showtime's funniest person in America. In 2018, DeGeneres appeared in a new stand up special, "", for Netflix after 15 years not performing stand-up comedy. Ellen's work in the late
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show


the table is a recurring theme. As an April Fools' Day prank in 2009, the show's staff placed a wider table top over her normal table. During the show, when DeGeneres attempted to dance over it, she barely made it across, being forced on her tip-toes and using the table as leverage. On the seventh-season premiere, DeGeneres performed a dance segment with the cast of "So You Think You Can Dance". In September 2009, four major record labels sued the producers of
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Karen Kilgariff


mother a psychiatric nurse. Karen Kilgariff started out as a stand-up comedian in Sacramento in the 1990s. She went on to land comedy roles on television, including being a cast member on seasons 3 and 4 of "Mr. Show". She would later appear in the 2015 reboot, "W/ Bob & David", as well. In 2003 Kilgariff was hired by Ellen DeGeneres to help write for her comedy special, "". Kilgariff later toured with DeGeneres as her opening act. Kilgariff was then named head
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allowing the importation of elephant trophies from Africa. DeGeneres, an animal activist, created a hashtag campaign in partnership with her brand, ED Ellen DeGeneres, to donate to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. DeGeneres also created a T-shirt with her brand whose proceeds also go to the organization. In January 2018, for Ellen's 60th birthday, Ellen's wife, Portia de Rossi, gifted Ellen a permanent gorilla home in Rwanda built in her namesake for the Digit Fund. This gift was part of a new arm of
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Shealeigh


at the age of 11, Shealeigh won the 5th season of the YouTube singing competition Cree Ingles Idol Search (now called Cree Ingles YouTube Idol). Ellen DeGeneres spotted one of Shealeigh's videos on YouTube in 2010 and invited her to perform on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". One year later, Shealeigh competed in the fourth season of Radio Disney's "N.B.T. (Next Big Thing)". On December 7, 2011, she won the competition with the song "What Can I Say". She released her
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coming-out episode won an Emmy Award, but the series was cancelled after one more season. She then continued to be the star of two more television programs. The Ellen Show debuted on CBS in September 2001, and was cancelled before the end of the first season. In September 2003, NBC premiered The Ellen DeGeneres Show, a daytime talk show that has so far been successful. In all of these accounts, DeGeneres has performed a lesbian persona as a consumed character that corresponds to her true identity. She is
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Tom Andrews (singer)


of 900 people. He then went on to achieve much success in various nationwide competitions. Tom was noticed on YouTube by Ellen DeGeneres and he made his television debut on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on 16 September 2010 singing "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" by James Brown. He studied at the Exeter Academy of Music and Sound. He writes his own material and has worked with Toby Gad, Jorgen Elofsson, Arnthor Birgisson, Julie Frost, Gary Clarke, Gary Go, Herbie Crichlow,
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Bob Moses (band)


going through something very similar" in their romantic lives. Howie has pointed out that part of the song's inspiration came from the beat of Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2". The song received considerable radio airplay in the United States, having peaked at No. 16 on "Billboard"'s Alternative Songs chart. In January 2016, Bob Moses performed on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", after being personally picked by Ellen DeGeneres to appear on the show. They performed "Tearing Me Up".
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The Puppy Episode


, "The Puppy Episode" was an enormous ratings success, won multiple awards and became a cultural phenomenon. Nonetheless, DeGeneres and her show quickly garnered criticism for being "too gay"; the series was canceled after one more season and DeGeneres and guest star Laura Dern faced career backlash. Ellen goes out to dinner with her old friend Richard, a reporter who is in town to cover a story. His producer, Susan, joins them for dessert and she and Ellen hit it off. Ellen goes back to Richard
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Jérôme Jarre


became one of the earliest viral videos on Vine and was featured twice on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". Six months after starting his Vine account, he had 20,000 followers. Most of his vines feature him playing pranks on strangers. According to Jarre, after being featured on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", his account grew from 20,000 followers to 1 million followers in a month. Subsequently, Ellen asked him to cover the Red Carpet ceremony of the 86th Academy Awards, where he made multiple vines with Hollywood actors.
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Gone, Gone, Gone (Phillip Phillips song)


16, 2013, Phillip Phillips performed the song on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to coincide with the twelfth season premiere of "American Idol." Phillips performed the song on the March 14 results show on the twelfth season of "American Idol." He subsequently performed the song on a number of television shows, including NBC's "Today" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". He was also invited to the pregame show for Super Bowl XLVIII where the song was
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Regis Philbin said in an interview that "the only complaint was there's not enough Ellen." DeGeneres was nominated for an Emmy Award as host of the Academy Awards broadcast. On August 2, 2013, it was announced that DeGeneres would host the Academy Awards on March 2, 2014, for the second time. A selfie orchestrated by 86th Academy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres during the broadcast is the second-most retweeted tweet ever. DeGeneres said she wanted to homage Meryl Streep's record 17 Oscar nominations by setting a new
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, 2010, de Rossi filed a petition to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres. The petition was granted on September 23, 2010. Ellen previously described herself as a vegan and "big animal lover". De Rossi, too, is a vegan. Ellen co-ordinated a vegan outreach website titled 'Going Vegan with Ellen'. She intended to open a vegan tapas bar, Bokado, in Los Angeles, but plans fell through. The site for "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" contains a section
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Ellen's Game of Games


Ellen's Game of Games, also known as Game of Games and stylized as ellen's GAME OF GAMES, is an American television game show that premiered on December 18, 2017. In March 2017, NBC ordered six (later eight) hour-long episodes of the series. Ellen DeGeneres serves as host, while Stephen "tWitch" Boss appears as announcer/sidekick. The series is based on game segments from DeGeneres' daytime talk show, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". A special preview episode aired on December
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Shawn Farquhar


Canadian-produced game show "Talk About" in 1989. Farquhar appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on January 13, 2010, where she referred to him as "the best sleight-of-hand magician in the world". He presented several effects, including his creation of a signed card in a sealed deck in Ellen DeGeneres' hands, and a torn and restored signed photograph. In 2011, Farquhar was filmed for Season 1 on the UK show "", where the eponymous hosts Penn and Teller
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American Idol


song, "No Boundaries" which was co-written by DioGuardi. This is the first season in which the winner failed to achieve gold album status. The ninth season premiered on January 12, 2010. The upheaval at the judging panel continued. Ellen DeGeneres joined as a judge to replace Paula Abdul at the start of Hollywood Week. One of the most prominent auditioners this season was General Larry Platt whose performance of "Pants on the Ground" became a viral hit song. Crystal Bowersox, who has Type-I
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Anne Heche


while dating comedian Ellen DeGeneres. In 2017, Heche hosted a weekly radio show on SiriusXM with Jason Ellis entitled "Love and Hache". Heche's relationship with Ellen DeGeneres and the events following their breakup became subjects of widespread media interest. The couple started dating in 1997, and at one point, said they would get a civil union if such became legal in Vermont. They broke up in August 2000. Heche has stated that all of her other romantic relationships have been with men. On September 1, 2001,
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Heartbeat Song (Kelly Clarkson song)


, 2015, "Good Morning America" on March 3, 2015, iHeartRadio Music Awards on March 29, 2015, and on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", on April 3, 2015. On April 2, 2015, Clarkson performed the song on the fourteenth season of "American Idol" where she was also the guest mentor for the top 8 as part of the "Evening with Kelly Clarkson" week. Clarkson performed the song in a medley with "Since U Been Gone" and "Stronger (What Does
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Grey's Anatomy (season 4)


red carpet prior to the awards, Washington joked, "I love gay. I wanted to be gay. Please let me be gay." After the show won Best Drama, Washington, in response to press queries as to any conflicts backstage, said, "I never called T.R. a faggot." However, in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Knight said that "everybody heard him." After being rebuked by his studio, Touchstone Television, Washington issued a statement apologizing for
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Mekia Cox


a yacht. Dixon led her to believe he was her age. One of the things that helped them bond despite his status as a high school junior was that they had the same cell phone ringtone. Eventually, Cox's character lies about becoming pregnant to keep Dixon from breaking up with her. On October 29, 2009, she was one of the This is It dancers who appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to fulfill host Ellen DeGeneres' birthday wish. She appeared in all first-season episodes of "
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List of awards and nominations received by Ellen


"Ellen" is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on ABC from March 29, 1994 until July 22, 1998. The series was created by Neal Marlens, Carol Black and David S. Rosenthal. It was originally titled "These Friends of Mine", but it was changed after the first season to avoid confusion with the NBC series "Friends". "Ellen" stars stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan, a Los Angeles bookstore owner in her thirties. The series centers on Ellen's daily life
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record label entitled "eleveneleven". She explained her choice of name, claiming that she often sees the number when looking at her clocks, that she found Greyson on the 11th, and that the singer's soccer jersey has the number 11. She mentioned that she had been looking for videos of performances on YouTube to start her label. The first act she signed to the label is Greyson Chance. DeGeneres lists among her comedic influences Woody Allen, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Steve Martin, and Bob Newhart. "
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during DeGeneres's surge in popularity through her role in "Finding Nemo" and her new daytime talk show, Lifetime began airing reruns again, on 1AM-2AM ET Sunday mornings, starting with the second season. Before long, it went into the 1:30AM-2AM ET time slot Monday-Friday. The reruns stopped two episodes into the controversial final season. Oxygen then picked up the entire series to air starting October 4, 2004, daily at midnight and noon ET, but it has since been removed from the schedule. In September 2013
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Ellen DeGeneres


, and the Primetime Emmys. She has authored four books and started her own record company, Eleveneleven, as well as a production company, A Very Good Production. She also launched a lifestyle brand, ED Ellen DeGeneres, which comprises a collection of apparel, accessories, home, baby, and pet items. She has won 30 Emmys, 20 People's Choice Awards (more than any other person), and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. In 2016, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Jerry Falwell


the society that tolerates homosexuals." After comedian and actress Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian, Falwell referred to her in a sermon as "Ellen DeGenerate". DeGeneres mocked him, saying, "Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since the fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work." Falwell's legacy regarding homosexuality is complicated by his support for LGBT civil rights (see "civil rights" section above), as well as his attempts
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launched a collection to benefit Ellen's #BeKindToElephants campaign featuring a tee and baby one piece, donating 100% of the proceeds to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Then, DeGeneres created a line with her brand to benefit the newly created Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund, a member of the Digit Fund, to launch a line of tees and footwear to help gorillas. DeGeneres lent her voice to the role of Dory, a friendly fish with short-term memory loss, in the 2003 animated Disney/Pixar film "Finding Nemo
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Ellen (TV series)


Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994, to July 22, 1998, consisting of 109 episodes. The title role is Ellen Morgan, played by stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres, a neurotic bookstore owner in her thirties. The title of the series was These Friends of Mine for the first season, but it was subsequently changed to avoid confusion with the NBC series "Friends", which premiered in September 1994. The series centered on Ellen's dealing with her quirky
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Ellen's Game of Games


100,000. Host Ellen DeGeneres asks the questions and operates some of the mechanical props with a controller. The winners of the four preliminary games stand on a row of trap doors, and take turns answering questions. An incorrect answer results in the contestant being eliminated from the game and dropped through the trap door, sliding down a chute that empties below the stage. The last contestant standing advances to the Hot Hands game. Beginning with Season 2, the game shifts to "Sudden Drop" rules when two contestants remain. If
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which was held by Barack Obama, following his victory in the 2012 presidential election. Ellen launched her lifestyle brand under the name ED by Ellen in the summer of 2015. After her initial collections, the brand name then changed to ED Ellen DeGeneres to incorporate the licensed arm of her brand. The collection includes apparel, shoes, accessories, pet, baby and home items. DeGeneres' dog collection at PetSmart was launched in February 2017, and a cat line was introduced later that year. In November 2017, the brand
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Shelby Dressel


her guests and viewers of Dressel's scheduled appearance. On February 23, 2010, Dressel appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, once again singing Boston's "More Than a Feeling." When she finished the song, the audience gave her a standing ovation. She also wrote a new song, "Coming Back Around", based on her experiences in Hollywood. Dressel told DeGeneres that she is contemplating on trying out for American Idol next season, but wanted to let things cool down because of American Idol's busy schedule
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Jimmie Johnson


500 held on February 14. Johnson appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" during its tenth season in 2013. Fresh off his second Daytona 500 victory, Johnson challenged host Ellen DeGeneres to a go-kart race. On November 19, 2013, Johnson became the first professional athlete to co-host ESPN's flagship news show, "SportsCenter". In 2015, Johnson appeared on the series "Repeat After Me" and voiced a lobster named Jimmie on the animated kids show "Bubble Guppies". Johnson has appeared
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Jonathan Stark (actor)


Gordon Johnston "Jonathan" Stark (born February 16, 1952) is an American television producer, screenwriter, and actor. He created—along with his writing partner, Tracy Newman—the sitcom "According to Jim" and won an Emmy for his co-writing on "The Puppy Episode" in which Ellen DeGeneres's character Ellen Morgan came out of the closet on "Ellen" in 1997. As an actor, he is best known for playing the vampire bodyguard and servant Billy Cole in "Fright Night"
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American Gladiators


Surely You Joust", the first episode of season four and the overall 73rd episode which aired on September 18, 1992, features Carl and Urkel settling their feud on "American Gladiators". Adamle and Csonka appeared as themselves along with Gladiators Turbo and Sabre, the latter of whom was Waldo's cousin in the story. An episode of "Ellen" titled "Gladiators", the 19th episode of Season Two and the overall 30th episode which aired on March 1, 1995, features Ellen Morgan (Ellen DeGeneres) reluctantly
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5Star


an emphasis on lifestyle programming. Channel 5 announced that programming on launch would include "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Love My Way", "Windfall", "Angela's Eyes", and a weekday double-bill of the chat show "Trisha Goddard". On 16 October 2006, a day following the channel's launch, Australian soap opera "Home and Away" began airing from episode 4212 (Season 19, Episode 112). New episodes are shown Monday to Friday in a 'First Look'
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Anna Graceman


9 to age 16, Anna Graceman made appearances on national and local television, including "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", CBS, and NBC. On September 21, 2016, Anna Graceman appeared on NBC with her band 'Graceman' to promote the 'Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival' (30k in attendance). Anna Graceman was born in Juneau, Alaska, to a stay-at-home mother, who played classical music to her before she was born. At three months old, Anna Graceman's parents started
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WHP-TV


Fortune", "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Dr. Phil" and "The 700 Club". On some Friday nights during the Major League Baseball season, the station broadcasts Philadelphia Phillies games on their second subchannel, WHP 21.3. WHP presently broadcasts 22 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with four hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition to its main studios, WHP operates a bureau in York. Unlike most CBS affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone, the station does
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to advertise on "Ellen" again at all. Despite these losses of potential advertisers, ABC turned away ads from two LGBT-oriented sponsors, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and lesbian vacation company Olivia Cruises. Jerry Falwell called DeGeneres "Ellen Degenerate", to which DeGeneres responded, "I've been getting that since the fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work." GLAAD organized "Come Out With Ellen" house parties across the United States and HRC created "Ellen Coming Out
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Imagine Dragons


"I Bet My Life" at the American Music Awards (2014), and The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2015). Imagine Dragons performed a version of "Revolution" at "" (2014). They have also performed "Shots" on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" (2015), "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" (2015), and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (2015). They returned twice to "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in 2017, performing "Believer" on the
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was DeGeneres' first. On December 3, 2011, DeGeneres headlined the third annual "Change Begins Within" gala for the David Lynch Foundation held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In spring 2012, DeGeneres became the spokesperson for J. C. Penney in a tour and advertising campaign. DeGeneres represents a line of products on QVC, a home shopping network. Her line of home products, initialized as E.D., for Ellen DeGeneres, began being offered on QVC on October 24, 2014, under the name E.D. on
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Love?


"Louboutins" at the 2009 American Music Awards. The performance gained notoriety for an unchoreographed fall in the middle of the dance routine. Lopez was praised for her swift recovery and continuation of the performance. Lopez reprised the performance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on December 3, 2009 where she also laughed and joked about the incident. She was also booked to perform on the season six finale of "So You Think You Can Dance" on December 16, 2009. The performance took on a holiday theme and was
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Tim McClellan


Thea Marx and "The Best Places For Everything" by Peter Greenberg. It also led him to television in 2015 when he was featured as one of six contestants on the 1st season of Ellen DeGeneres' competition show Ellen's Design Challenge. McClellan was the winner of the challenge, but later disqualified after his winning design was found to resemble another piece of furniture from another designer. McClellan denied copying the design while admitting similarities of the pieces. McClellan was a fan favorite on the show and after his disqualification his fans criticized
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WRDW-TV


CBS stations, WRDW-TV does not carry the entire CBS schedule; the station does not carry the entirety of CBS's weekday overnight lineup — it carries "CBS Overnight News" but does not clear the network's broadcast of "CBS Morning News", as a result "CBS Morning News" does not air in the Augusta market. Syndicated programming featured on this station includes "Jeopardy!", "Wheel of Fortune", "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "The Dr. Oz Show", "Rachael
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show


created. Persons seated here are often referenced and shown briefly on camera but watch the taping from off-stage. Other non-celebrities have been featured in an attempt by DeGeneres to give them 15 minutes of fame. Guests in this role have included intelligent children, small business owners, etc. In the show's third season, DeGeneres began surprising fans by introducing them to their favorite celebrities. Several recurring sounds, gags, and catchphrases are used by DeGeneres depending on the topic of discussion or theme for a specific episode
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Kathy Najimy


with Ellen DeGeneres in three episodes of her sitcom "Ellen", playing a different character each time (including a non-speaking cameo in the iconic "Puppy Episode") and in the TV movie "If These Walls Could Talk 2". Najimy was a series regular season 4 of "Unforgettable", season 4 of "The Big C," and season 3 of "Numbers". She guest starred on "That's So Raven", "Drop Dead Diva", "Desperate Housewives", "
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Ricky Martin


enjoy sex in total freedom, so I'm open to having sex with a woman if I feel desire." Martin has also expressed support for same-sex marriage in an interview on "Larry King Live". Martin delivered a speech at the United Nations Homophobia Conference on November 12, 2012. Beginning April 2016, he started dating Jwan Yosef, a Syrian-Swedish painter of Kurdish and Armenian descent. The two announced their engagement on November 16, 2016, while on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show." In
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Brooke White


MTV's "Total Request Live" on May 6, 2008. While on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", Ellen DeGeneres cut White's husband David's hair, since he had vowed not to cut it until Brooke was eliminated from "Idol". She performed "You're So Vain" on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Live with Regis and Kelly", "The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet" and "Access Hollywood". White shot a video for the VH1 TV show "Best Week
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WDJT-TV


Chicago. When the station's news department began in January 1996, WDJT carried newscasts at 5 p.m. Monday through Saturdays, 5:30 p.m. on Sundays, 6 p.m. weeknights and at 10 p.m. seven nights a week. Unlike most CBS affiliates, WDJT does not have a weeknight 6 p.m. newscast; the station carried a newscast in that timeslot from the news department's launch until it aired "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in the slot from its September 2003 launch, and continued to do so when "Wheel of Fortune" and "
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Ellen's Design Challenge


Ellen's Design Challenge is an American furniture design reality competition series that premiered on January 26, 2015, on HGTV. The six-episode first season was announced in April 2014, as the first cable television series executive produced by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. In June 2015, HGTV renewed the series for a second season, that premiered on January 18, 2016. The competition series features six furniture designers competing together by showing their abilities in sketching, designing and building furniture within 24 hours. Contestants must demonstrate their creativity
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American Idol (season 9)


a solo performance. Forty-six made it to the final round where the judges take contestants one by one and tell them if they made the final twenty-four. One of the singers who was eliminated at the final cut was Lauren Daigle. Ellen DeGeneres made her first appearance as a judge (replacing Paula Abdul) at this time. The first seven were revealed on February 16, 2010 (during the second hour on the episode), and the rest were revealed on the following night's episode. The semi
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Crystal Swing


DeGeneres tweeted about the group. On 12 March, they made their first live television appearance on Irish television on "The Late Late Show" with Ryan Tubridy. On 15 March, they appeared on Newstalk 106-108fm with Seán Moncrieff, and on 16 March they appeared on "The Afternoon Show". Later in the month they made appearances on "Xposé" and "Ireland AM". On 6 April, they flew to Hollywood to make an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". The show was recorded
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The Oprah Winfrey Show


for people like herself. Comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian during her appearance on the show in 1997 after appearing on a "Time" magazine cover next to the headline "Yep, I'm gay." At the time, DeGeneres was the star of her own sitcom, ABC's "Ellen". The episode brought Winfrey the most hate mail she had ever received. Clemantine Wamariya and her sister Claire appeared on the show in 2006 when Wamariya was selected as one of the winners of an essay contest
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Street King Immortal


". In an appearance with singer Nicole Scherzinger on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", hosted by comedian and actress Ellen DeGeneres, on May 24, 2011, 50 Cent and Scherzinger performed their single "Right There", and 50 Cent revealed that the album was only a single song away from completion. He also confirmed that the mixing process for the album had already begun. 50 Cent later elaborated on Boi-1da's contribution in an interview with DJ Whoo Kid on the hip-hop radio station Shade 45, when he
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WDIV-TV


airs at 10 a.m.) since its debut, airing it generally at 11 a.m., save for a period from 2013 to 2015 when it aired at 2 p.m. after the launch their own local talk show "Live In The D". In its place, WDIV has aired "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "The Ricki Lake Show" and "Rachael Ray" at 10 a.m., with "Live In The D" airing in that timeslot since 2015. The station does not carry NBC's late night rerun of the
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TidalWave Productions


." "Fame: Justin Bieber" was initially distributed exclusively at Wal-Mart stores. Although many of the biography comics are unauthorized, the company does reach out to most of its subjects to participate. In 2010, the publication of "Female Force: Charlaine Harris" marked the first authorized Female Force biography. Harris granted interviews to writer Kim Sherman. When requested, Bluewater has donated profits made off the biography comics to charities of the subject's choice, as was the case with "FAME: Ellen DeGeneres"
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Savannah Robinson


on the Los Angeles KTTV show "Good Day L.A.". She then appeared on American nationwide television on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on February 18, 2011 after Ellen DeGeneres saw her singing on YouTube and wanted to meet her in person. She was immediately signed to Ellen DeGeneres' record label eleveneleven in March 2011. Savannah came back to the show on March 30, 2011 to perform the song "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" with her favorite singer Jennifer Hudson. Savannah returns to be on
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show


Show. Other recurring themes feature products from sponsors DeGeneres likes (similar to Oprah's Favorite Things from the now ended "The Oprah Winfrey Show"), specials following awards show telecasts (such as the Academy Awards), and numerous milestone episodes (e.g., DeGeneres's 1,000th, 1,300th, 1,500th, etc. broadcasts). In 2017, an episode aired commemorating the 20th anniversary of "The Puppy Episode", the episode of her sitcom "Ellen", in which her character Ellen Morgan came out as a lesbian
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Ellen DeGeneres


Einstein. The next film had DeGeneres co-hosting an educational look at energy with Nye. The ride first opened on September 15, 1996, as "Ellen's Energy Crisis", but was quickly given the more positive-sounding name "Ellen's Energy Adventure". DeGeneres' first regular TV role was in a short-lived Fox sitcom called "Open House". She played the role of Margo Van Meter, an office worker at the Juan Verde Real Estate company. The show co-starred Alison LaPlaca
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American Idol Extra


as co-host. The program did not return in 2010 because Fox Reality was in transition to National Geographic Wild. The exit interview moved to "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", hosted by DeGeneres, who was a judge that season. DeGeneres has since left the show and the first exit interview is now conducted on "Live with Regis and Kelly". No other elements of this program have survived. Weekly segments include interviews with audience members who watched the performance show, interviews with past "Idol" contestants, a
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The Bachelorette (season 13)


NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, actress and television host Ellen DeGeneres and country singer Russell Dickerson. The season began with 31 contestants. Season 4 DeMario Jackson was set to appear in the fourth season of "Bachelor in Paradise" thus became the only cast member of this season has announced. When production restarted after the misconduct allegations had halted production, Jackson did not return for filming. Dean Unglert joined the cast on that season after he was eliminated during hometowns. Diggy Moreland, Matt Munson, Iggy Rodriguez, Jack Stone
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The Puppy Episode


Anne Heche on the scheduled broadcast date of "The Puppy Episode". DeGeneres commented on her months of hinting at her sexuality and the media frenzy within the episode itself, giving Ellen Morgan's friends lines like "Ellen, are you coming out or not?!" and "Yeah, quit jerking us around and come out already!" Morgan's therapist comments that if Morgan does not come out she will "continue to have these dreams and then it's going to show up in your waking life as these little
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American Family Association


the media. It uses these websites to organize boycotts and urge activists to send emails to mainstream companies employing advertising, selling products, or advertising on television shows they find offensive. In 2012, the group started and then backed off from a failed campaign against the hiring of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson for department store chain JC Penney. They opposed her employment on the grounds that DeGeneres is "an open homosexual". At a taping of her show, DeGeneres informed her audience of the fizzled effort: "
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The Puppy Episode


for Ellen's coming out so as to keep the whole episode under wraps. DeGeneres began negotiating with ABC in 1996 to have Morgan come out. When word of the negotiations got out, DeGeneres found herself at the center of intense speculation about when she or her character, or both, would come out. With DeGeneres hinting at her and her character's coming out both off-screen and within the show, the rumors were confirmed when the episode went into production in March 1997. Despite threats from advertisers and religious groups
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David Thibault


uploaded it onto YouTube on December 9, 2013, the cover went viral with almost five million video views within a week. On December 23, 2013, Thibault appeared on "The Ellen Degeneres Show". Thibault competed in season 4 of the talent show "" on French TV and reached the finals. 16 episodes were recorded in France from November 2014 to January 2015 and were aired each Saturday evening from January 10, 2015 to April 25, 2015. Thibault's blind audition, during which he sang Elvis Presley's
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The Puppy Episode


herself as part of their "Coming Out Night". DeGeneres was deeply moved by the celebration, and that it meant the world to her to have a network that supported her no matter what. Following "The Puppy Episode", "Ellen" was renewed for another season. ABC prefaced each episode of season five with a parental advisory warning. DeGeneres strongly criticized ABC for including the warnings, saying in an interview with "Entertainment Weekly", "It was like this voice like you're entering some kind of radiation
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Cake by the Ocean


was released on October 16, 2015. It depicts DNCE performing "in front of a giant piece of cake on the beach" when a cake-throwing battle ensues between The Fat Jew and "a bunch of bikini clad women who are 'Team DNCE'". Both vie "to become the 'cake fight champion', but as it turns out, everyone is a winner, as the scene becomes one giant beach party". DNCE has performed the song as musical guests on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show


announced to the audience that they will also be going on a holiday to Australia in a giveaway special. On March 3, 2014, DeGeneres hosted the show live, one day after her being the host of the 86th Academy Awards. This episode features that year's Oscar winners Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto, and Lupita Nyong'o as guests. From time to time a guest host has filled in for DeGeneres. This was previously quite rare, but has gradually become more common, especially in recent seasons. Guest Co-Hosts
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Ellen DeGeneres


and Mary Page Keller. In 1992, producers Neal Marlens and Carol Black cast DeGeneres in their sitcom "Laurie Hill", in the role of Nurse Nancy MacIntyre. The series was canceled after only four episodes, but Marlens and Black were so impressed with DeGeneres' performance that they soon cast her in their next ABC pilot, "These Friends of Mine", which they co-created with David S. Rosenthal. DeGeneres' comedy career became the basis of the successful sitcom "Ellen", named "These Friends of
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Rebel Heart


" on March 11, 2015. She discussed her life and personal relationships, as well as confirming that "Ghosttown" was to be "Rebel Heart"s second single. Madonna appeared and performed on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in the US for the entire week of March 16 to 20. Songs performed included "Living for Love" with DeGeneres herself joining the singer onstage. She also sang a stripped down version of "Joan of Arc", "Ghosttown", and finally, her 1985 single "Dress You Up
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Ellen DeGeneres


out, but she has since become one of her strongest supporters; she is also an active member of Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's Coming Out Project. The same year she came out, DeGeneres started a romantic relationship with actress Anne Heche that lasted until August 2000. From 2000 to 2004, DeGeneres maintained a close affair with actress/director/photographer Alexandra Hedison. The couple appeared on the cover of "The Advocate" after their separation had already been
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show


by doing a dance. The dancing proved to be extremely popular with viewers, and has since progressed to a segment where DeGeneres dances into the audience, sometimes borrowing a coat or purse from someone's chair, and taking it with her. She has also featured a segment in which people teach her new dance moves. One of her most famous dance moves is dancing over the table, where she straddles the coffee table and dances from one end to the other. Although she does not do it every day, dancing over
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Feminist comedy


dominated space by being self-defined (comedy about lesbians by lesbians) and makes women, rather than men, the central focus. Perhaps one of the most widely known queer comedians is Ellen DeGeneres, who made television history when her character on her sitcom, The Ellen Show, came out as lesbian. DeGeneres herself had come out less than a month prior, and this announcement made her the first openly lesbian actor to play an openly lesbian title character. A prominent contemporary example of this is the comedy of Cameron Esposito
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The Puppy Episode


"The Puppy Episode" is a two-part episode of the situation comedy television series "Ellen". The episode details lead character Ellen Morgan's realization that she is a lesbian and her coming out. It was the 22nd and 23rd episode of the series' 4th season. The episode was written by series star Ellen DeGeneres with Mark Driscoll, Tracy Newman, Dava Savel and Jonathan Stark and directed by Gil Junger. It originally aired on ABC on April 30, 1997. The title was used as a code name
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William Ragsdale


the television series "Judging Amy". He played a television producer for "Grosse Pointe", which lasted one season. He was cast in the pilot for "Charmed", but refused the series to feature in the short-lived situation comedy "Brother's Keeper". He appeared on "Ellen" as the boyfriend of Ellen Morgan (played by Ellen DeGeneres) before her character revealed her homosexuality. He has had guest roles on television, including a four-episode stint on "Less than Perfect",
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Betty DeGeneres


Elizabeth Jane "Betty" DeGeneres (née Pfeffer; born May 20, 1930) is an American LGBT rights activist and former speech therapist. She is the mother of Ellen and Vance DeGeneres and the first straight spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project and an active member of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). She gained notability following her daughter Ellen's highly publicized coming out in 1997. The youngest of three daughters, DeGeneres was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in
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Sophina DeJesus


Bayou Legend" at the Kaufman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles – the school she'd go on to attend. Her different ventures have landed her appearances on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "The Tom Joyner Morning Show" and "Maury". She started gymnastics at the age of six at Fallbrook Gymnastics, in Fallbrook, California. After the 2003 season, she moved to train at prestigious Southern California Gymnastics Academy (SCEGA) in Temecula, California, where she would be taught
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Moves like Jagger


, a talent competition show on which both she and Levine are coaches. Maroon 5 performed this song without Aguilera on "America's Got Talent" on August 3, 2011 in the results show of the fourth week of the Hollywood performances. The song was performed live on September 8, 2011 at the NFL pre-show on Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, before the start of the 2011 NFL season. The song was also played on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in mid-September 2011, on "
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KJTV-TV


pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 34. Syndicated programming on KJTV includes: "Two and a Half Men", "Friends", "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "How I Met Your Mother", and "AgDay". Starting with the 1989-90 season, KJTV became the exclusive broadcaster of Southwest
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Ellen DeGeneres


including Best Talk Show. The show has won 25 Emmy Awards for its first three seasons on the air. DeGeneres is known for her dancing and singing with the audience at the beginning of the show and during commercial breaks. She often gives away free prizes and trips to be in her show's studio audience with the help of her sponsors. DeGeneres celebrated her thirty-year class reunion by flying her graduating class to California to be guests on her show in February 2006. She presented Atlanta High School with a surprise gift
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Portia de Rossi


she appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." In 2013, when interviewed about rumors of pregnancy, de Rossi stated that she and DeGeneres were not planning to have children. DeGeneres and de Rossi both became vegans in 2008, though DeGeneres recently stated that she is no longer vegan. They have adopted several rescue animals. In 2017, de Rossi tweeted that actor Steven Seagal exposed himself to her while she was auditioning for one of his films. De Rossi supports a variety of charitable
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Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo


specials later in the year. In September, they choreographed the opening dance sequence on the season seven premiere of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". The routine featured both DeGeneres and the top ten dancers from season five of "So You Think You Can Dance". At the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, they choreographed a routine honoring dance that featured Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy from "Dancing With The Stars"; Katee Shean, Mark Kanemura, and Joshua Allen from "So You Think You Can Dance"; and four
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