The 67-year-old and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, left their house in Montecito, California to start out a brand new life within the Cotswolds area of England — after the presidential election in November 2024. Ellen’s new feedback, at an occasion Sunday evening in her new house, come after the pair mentioned they “not have plans to return to america” final 12 months.

Ellen mentioned, by way of BBC, that the couple purchased their UK house as a “part-time home” to stay in for 3-4 months of the 12 months. That plan modified as quickly because the outcomes of the election got here rolling in, with DeGeneres saying, “Sure,” when requested whether or not Trump was the rationale for the transfer.

“We bought right here the day earlier than the election and woke as much as numerous texts from our associates with crying emojis, and I used to be like, ‘He bought in’,” she mentioned. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying right here’.”

That is when the pair determined to make their part-time house a without end one.

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

“It is clear. All the things right here is simply higher – the way in which animals are handled, persons are well mannered,” Ellen continued. “I simply find it irresistible right here.”

She additionally informed the group that she and her spouse had been involved homosexual marriage could be reversed within the states, saying, “The Baptist Church in America is attempting to reverse homosexual marriage. They’re attempting to actually cease it from taking place sooner or later and presumably reverse it.”

“Portia and I are already trying into it, and in the event that they try this, we’ll get married right here,” she continued. Later, she reportedly added, “I want we had been at a spot the place it was not scary for folks to be who they’re. I want that we lived in a society the place everyone might settle for different folks and their variations.”

Stars like Courtney Love and Rosie O’Donnell additionally overtly shared transferring out of the U.S. for a similar motive.

On July 13, O’Donnell responded to President Trump’s risk to revoke her visa with an Instagram submit of a photograph of President Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.

“hey donald – you are rattled once more? 
18 years later and I nonetheless stay rent-free in that collapsing mind of yours,” she wrote.

“you name me a risk to humanity –
however I’m every little thing you concern:
a loud girl
a queer girl
a mom who tells the reality
an american who bought in another country b4 u set it ablaze
you construct partitions –
I construct a life for my autistic child in a rustic the place decency nonetheless exists,” she continued.

“you crave loyalty –
I educate my kids to query energy. you promote concern on golf programs –
I make artwork about surviving trauma. you lie, you steal, you degrade –
I nurture, I create, I persist.”

“you’re every little thing that’s flawed with america –
and I am every little thing you hate about what’s nonetheless proper with it.”

“you need to revoke my citizenship?
go forward and take a look at, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan.
i’m not yours to silence
i by no means was,” she wrote.

Degeneres went on Instagram to help O’Donnell, writing a remark below her prolonged submit.

“Good for you, @rosie,” Degeneres wrote.