Ellen DeGeneres Says She Misses TV and Hints at a UK Comeback: Would You Watch?

Ellen DeGeneres is ready to talk about a comeback. The former daytime host appeared on The Graham Norton Show and admitted she misses being on television, saying she has“nothing really going on”right now. She also told Graham she misses laughing with the writers and the audience, which is about as direct as it gets from someone who’s kept a seriously low profile for four years.

Here’s the context: Ellen and wife Portia de Rossi moved to the Cotswolds two years ago, after Trump’s re-election, and have been living a much quieter life in the English countryside. Her talk show ended after ten former employees alleged a toxic workplace, and she apologized on camera in 2020. Since then, she’s been spotted around Oxfordshire, including a casual pub chat with Meghan Markle near Burford.

Now she’s joking that getting a UK show would be easy, throwing out pottery, sewing, and TV-watching programs as options. It might be a joke, or it might be a test balloon. Either way, the question now lands on audiences: after everything, do you want Ellen back on your screen?