Ellen DeGeneres says she determined to make the U.Ok. her everlasting residence due to Donald Trump‘s re-election as U.S. President.

Making her first public look since leaving the U.S. final 12 months, the chat present host revealed that she determined to settle within the U.Ok. along with her spouse Portia de Rossi the day after Trump received his second time period in workplace in November 2024.

“We acquired right here the day earlier than the election and woke as much as plenty of texts from our associates with crying emojis, and I used to be like, ‘He acquired in’,” she mentioned in an on-stage dialog with U.Ok. host Ricard Bacon, in keeping with the BBC. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying right here.’”

However DeGeneres was filled with reward for her new residence, asserting that life “is simply higher” within the U.Ok. in comparison with the U.S.

“It’s completely lovely,” she mentioned. “We’re simply not used to seeing this sort of magnificence. The villages and the cities and the structure — every part you see is charming and it’s only a less complicated lifestyle.”

She added: “It’s clear. All the pieces right here is simply higher — the way in which animals are handled, persons are well mannered. I simply like it right here.”

DeGeneres additionally mentioned strikes within the U.S. to endorse the reversal of a Supreme Court docket case that enables same-sex marriage, including that she was contemplating getting married once more within the U.Ok..

“The Baptist Church in America is attempting to reverse homosexual marriage,” she mentioned. “They’re attempting to actually cease it from occurring sooner or later and presumably reverse it. Portia and I are already trying into it, and in the event that they try this, we’re going to get married right here.”

Within the dialog with Bacon, DeGeneres addressed allegations of a poisonous office tradition on her discuss present within the U.S. from former employees and being branded as “imply” in some press circles.

“It’s so simple as, I’m a direct particular person, and I’m very blunt, and I suppose typically that signifies that… I’m imply?,” she mentioned.

“I don’t assume I can say something that’s ever going to eliminate that [reputation] or dispel it, which is hurtful to me,” she added. “I hate it. I hate that folks assume that I’m that as a result of I do know who I’m and I do know that I’m an empathetic, compassionate particular person.”

However DeGeneres admitted that it was “actually an disagreeable option to finish” her discuss present.