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Ellen Degeneres' House Of Horrors

"Dana Dimatteo was an audience member on the popular talk show in 2018 and, after being selected to be part of a game, the 29-year-old recalled how Ellen acted behind the scenes.

Dana claimed exclusively to The Sun Online: "During commercial breaks, Ellen would break out of her 'kind' character and sit moodily in silence on her couch, not acknowledging anyone.

“She didn’t say one word to the audience unless the cameras were on, she snapped out of her character the second the cameras stopped rolling."

"We were told by the producers that if we were picked we were not allowed to be funnier or smarter than Ellen, that she is the star and the comedian, not us."

She continued: “We were told to act in a very specific way and to only speak if she asked us a question.

“They made us scream and jump around backstage as a test, it was pretty humiliating.”

Dana would go on to appear on a game segment called Make It Rain, in which contestants get soaked with water while attempting to win cash.

She alleged: "Once the game was over, we were soaking wet so they sent us backstage.

“Then they just left us there…we waited pretty much the whole show in our soaking wet clothes for someone to bring us dry things to change into.

“It was really cold and uncomfortable.”

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by Anonymousreply 71August 19, 2020 3:04 AM

How the fuck can you treat a guest that way? She needs to be literally bansihed from society for this. FUCK HER!

by Anonymousreply 1August 15, 2020 8:47 PM

Why not just haul her off to The Hague on the way to Gitmo Bay, R1? Why not also subject her to electric shock therapy and waterboarding while you're at it?

by Anonymousreply 2August 15, 2020 8:58 PM

Who in the hell would ever agree to participate in one of those “games?”

by Anonymousreply 3August 15, 2020 9:04 PM

At least they were allowed to play games. I got blackballed.

by Anonymousreply 4August 15, 2020 9:06 PM

People need to start looking at the tabloids, newspapers and media who are writing these articles. Check out who owns the newspaper etc. It is known within mainstream professional media that the Ellen hate train is a hit job. Trolls then go to all the gossip sites and link the articles. It is thought to be a combined right-wing media hit job

by Anonymousreply 5August 15, 2020 9:12 PM

Then why are left-wing sources joining the lynch mob, R5?

by Anonymousreply 6August 15, 2020 9:14 PM

I see Ellen is here at r5....Hi Ellen...YOU ARE GOING DOWN BITCH

by Anonymousreply 7August 15, 2020 9:23 PM

They're all out to get her! And me! They are all pure evil!

by Anonymousreply 8August 15, 2020 9:27 PM

R6, Because the left today hates gays and lesbians as much as the right wing does.

by Anonymousreply 9August 15, 2020 9:31 PM

I use to watch Ellen faithfully and loved her until she started with her games on her show. There was something about how much pleasure she got out of watching someone be terrified. That's when I knew something was off.

by Anonymousreply 10August 15, 2020 9:35 PM

There's that shot of her jumping out at her employees to scare them like that's funny beyond first grade and one guy looks like he doesn't find it funny at all. I'm surprised they left it in among the others.

There's something enormously satisfying about seeing someone who sells kindness and generosity on TV to become a multi millionaire who is shown to be nothing but a Televangelist brought down.

by Anonymousreply 11August 15, 2020 9:41 PM

I wonder if Ellen’s going to overcompensate to show how kind she is when she’s back on set. Or she may take Howard’sStern’s advice and just become a bigger cunt now that she has nothing to hide anymore.

by Anonymousreply 12August 15, 2020 9:43 PM

[quote] Or she may take Howard’sStern’s advice and just become a bigger cunt now that she has nothing to hide anymore

That's basically what I did!

by Anonymousreply 13August 15, 2020 9:44 PM

They're trying to get Ellen out of the way so whatserface's (the ET girl) new show has room to shine. WTF is her name? The ditzy blonde.

by Anonymousreply 14August 15, 2020 9:47 PM

The republicans want Ellen off of tv so she CANNOT INFLUENCE SUBURBAN FEMALE VOTERS.

by Anonymousreply 15August 15, 2020 9:51 PM

Agree R10

Her genuine pleasure, no, rapt enjoyment of the humiliation of the contestants is off putting. Unpalatable. Sadistic. The underside of the smiley nice Ellen role she plays on her talk show.

by Anonymousreply 16August 15, 2020 9:52 PM

R6 clicks. Did you notice how quiet it got last week. No mass Ellen articles or threads. They realised that it was a hit job. Someone within media did a bit of digging. It spread around. My source is right about this stuff. This week rumblings about Oprah, Ellen and Markle will again be seen in media. Oprah and Ellen have been left alone recently. All there will feature in blinds and thread. This site you will see Oprah threads and rabid Markle threads. Along with Ellen ones.

by Anonymousreply 17August 15, 2020 9:53 PM

I think that weird Tig Nataro lesbian must be behind this. She's such an unknown but isn't she known to have some clout in Hollywood?

Ellen's never been anybody I liked, but this all sounds really engineered like someone's out to destroy the woman. She's a fucking talk show host. WHO cares?!?! Don't watch that stupid, insipid show of her's if she's so awful. I don't.

by Anonymousreply 18August 15, 2020 9:54 PM

I think that girl in the audience is very naive. Did she think Ellen was going to come and sit next to her in the add breaks and have a chat. Was Ellen supposed to personally bring her a towel and change of clothes.

Producing the energy, intelligence and humour to host that show would be exhausting. Of course her employees are protecting their boss and THEIR SOURCE OF INCOME, to make sure Ellen gives the best performance.

If I were Ellen in this situation, I probably wouldn't change anything or close down production of the show. I'd show up, make reference to the investigation and then continuously joke about what a 'mean' person I am.

by Anonymousreply 19August 15, 2020 9:58 PM

Oh please. I have been to a number of tapings and most shows ask you to practice applauding and cheering in an attempt to get you to show enthusiasm. Hardly "humiliating". When I went to the Anderson show I had to line up. In the cold! And we were then kept in a room! The humiliation. The horror...

Maybe Ellen was focused on doing, you know, her job. She didn't owe this entitled, whiney cry baby anything.

Go pick on Wendy Williams whose show makes potential audience members send in a picture.

by Anonymousreply 20August 15, 2020 10:31 PM

D-listed has just made an Ellen and a Markle thread. I told you. Gossip and blind sites would be posting Ellen, Markle and Oprah today. My source is high up. This will be coordinated with multiple threads on sites. Ellen hasn't been spoken about for over a week. My source told me it would start. I told you it would and after I told you- not before sites started their Ellen hits. Meghan will be anti La hit threads. They hate La etc.

by Anonymousreply 21August 15, 2020 11:09 PM

The Ellen stuff has been brewing at least on DL for years. Much like Harvey. Though Ellen wasn't a sexual abuser she certainly ALLOWED her producers to be.

by Anonymousreply 22August 15, 2020 11:17 PM

OMG they posted about her home robbery being an inside job just like reputable sites have posted R21. I would hardly call that a hit piece.

by Anonymousreply 23August 15, 2020 11:28 PM

What, she robbed her own home?

by Anonymousreply 24August 15, 2020 11:36 PM

[quote]Why not also subject her to electric shock therapy and waterboarding while you're at it?

That gives me some ideas!

by Anonymousreply 25August 15, 2020 11:37 PM

God now whenever I see her I see Nosferatu just because of one of you bitches!

by Anonymousreply 26August 15, 2020 11:41 PM

When it came out that Taylor Swift had asked producers not to have Ellen pull that jump scare shit on her and Ellen did it anyway that was a sign that she was a bitch.

by Anonymousreply 27August 15, 2020 11:42 PM

Wow, it didn't know that R27.

by Anonymousreply 28August 15, 2020 11:44 PM

*I

by Anonymousreply 29August 15, 2020 11:56 PM

Wanna know what a true Ellen Horror is?

I'll TELL you what a true Ellen Horror is.

Watching her fuck Sharon Stone in that If These Walls Could Talk movie.

by Anonymousreply 30August 16, 2020 1:48 AM

[quote] The republicans want Ellen off of tv so she CANNOT INFLUENCE SUBURBAN FEMALE VOTERS.

Influence them to do what? To see how lovable her BFF George W. Bush is?

by Anonymousreply 31August 16, 2020 1:49 AM

Also agree R10. No one has mentioned Ellen's Game of Games, which I find unwatchable because of the mean-spirited tone that's there just below the surface during just about all of it, and her snide, sitting on a perch above the fray position while she fake laughs as the games progress and get creepier and meaner every two minutes.

Much like Walt Disney was obsessed with excrement, and so many of early his short cartoons had various projectiles emitting from the rear ends (another Disney fixation—Tinkerbell often shot from behind) of his animated creations—‚just watch The Band Concert, it's all there—the huge colored vats of brightly covered goo that Ellen's GoG contestants are immersed in or sprayed with if they lose her various games are substitutes for shit, diarhea, vomit, etc.

by Anonymousreply 32August 16, 2020 3:02 AM

R 32 is spot on.

by Anonymousreply 33August 18, 2020 1:30 AM

I have know a family who went to an Oprah taping and they were all disgruntled when they got home because they said O didn't talk to the audience during breaks and when the show was over they didn't get to MEET HER!!! They thought she was going to be standing at the door, shaking hands, and thanking people for coming!!! Da' Fuq?????

Stoopid people.

by Anonymousreply 34August 18, 2020 1:49 AM

I wonder what they have on anti-Trumpster Jimmy Kimmel, to make him go on indefinite hiatus?..

by Anonymousreply 35August 18, 2020 2:13 AM

At the Regis and Kathie Lee taping I went to many years ago Regis hung around to talk to all the old ladies. Kathie fled immediately but he was pretty nice after it was over and he didn't have to be. That impressed me. It really is all part of the job I thought. He was selling affability and friendliness and believed in walking the walk.

by Anonymousreply 36August 18, 2020 2:14 AM

I am not an Ellen fan at all. She sounds like yet another mean, bitter, cold person who knows how to come across well on tv.

But none of this stuff is indicative of anything more than a person who is doing her job and taking breaks in between on-air segments. So she's not sunny and nice when the camera's off, meaning she's faking it. Big deal. Don't we all fake it to some extent when we're working? So she's not outgoing during breaks. Yeah, because they're breaks, and pretending to be something you're not day in, day out is fucking exhausting.

I think she's in bigger trouble over her mistreatment of celeb guests. Once word gets around, it gets harder to book new celebs on the talk show, and without them, the ratings drop.

This is the result of celebs deciding to get back at her. You can't tell me there weren't celebs dying to do the same to Carson and Letterman.

Face it - comedians are miserable fucks and not nice people to be around. And she's old and past her sell by date. Time to replace her with someone younger. More contemporary. More relevant.

You can only kick 'em on their way down, so everyone's lining up to take their turn on Ellen.

by Anonymousreply 37August 18, 2020 2:15 AM

R35. Probably something from the The Man Show era

But to be honest, all the shows from home SUCK. The Daily Show, Real Time, Seth Meyers, Ellen—just bad. Maybe he saw the writing on the wall and dipped out.

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by Anonymousreply 38August 18, 2020 2:22 AM

This is the terrible Ellen? Puh-leaze.

by Anonymousreply 39August 18, 2020 2:26 AM

I have felt all along that this was an orchestrated attack on Ellen. I haven't read anything that sets her apart from most others with a show. She has done a lot to progress the acceptance of gays and for that, I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt.

by Anonymousreply 40August 18, 2020 2:26 AM

Her coming out was TV history and no one can take that away from her. But this is different. She needs to go back to doing stand-up.

by Anonymousreply 41August 18, 2020 2:31 AM

Ellen is Lonesome Rhodes! HA!

Here's the Lonesome Rhodes Express.....going down!!!!

by Anonymousreply 42August 18, 2020 3:25 AM

This is such fake news. Pathetic. She's being trolled by The New York Post. Every article is Click Bait. They rehash shit, but none of it is about HER alleged shitty behaviour. Just a "hostile work environment", which has been revealed to be the now fired Executive Producer.

by Anonymousreply 43August 18, 2020 4:37 AM

[quote] “She didn’t say one word to the audience unless the cameras were on, she snapped out of her character the second the cameras stopped rolling."

I think Ellen is a nasty person, but so many talk show hosts are like this. They're all very cold and dismissive towards the "little people". The only ones I've heard nice things about are Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon. And we all know how two-faced Leno is and Jimmy Fallon is a drunk mess.

by Anonymousreply 44August 18, 2020 5:44 AM

[quote]There's something enormously satisfying about seeing someone who sells kindness and generosity on TV to become a multi millionaire who is shown to be nothing but a Televangelist brought down.

r11, It's called schadenfreude.

by Anonymousreply 45August 18, 2020 5:52 AM

Ellens college girlfriend died while she was cheating on her. More proof that sacrifice is required to achieve hollywood fame.

by Anonymousreply 46August 18, 2020 6:41 AM

Variety has an article up today — 3 of Ellen’s executive producers were fired.

by Anonymousreply 47August 18, 2020 7:45 AM

I'm sure they were paid very very well. The Ellen brand is the gift that keeps on giving. Ellen throws these people under the bus because like Schultz she knew nothing and these people make out like the two guards who killed Epstein and are set for life along with their families.

by Anonymousreply 48August 18, 2020 10:34 AM

Hold me David. I'm scared of Ellen.

by Anonymousreply 49August 18, 2020 10:36 AM

hit job. hahahah sure all her former employees, all the verified accounts everyone is secretly a right winger paid by Putin to bring down Ellen.

by Anonymousreply 50August 18, 2020 12:25 PM

[quote]It is known within mainstream professional media that the Ellen hate train is a hit job.

R5, can you repeat that, but this time take off your tinfoil hat.

by Anonymousreply 51August 18, 2020 12:30 PM

r45 No, it's not.

by Anonymousreply 52August 18, 2020 12:53 PM

Live that Ellen is now blaming everything on her being introverted. Introverted isn’t the same as asshole.

(By the way, some of the nicest, no-conflict people in the industry have been commenting on her asshole behavior for years.)

by Anonymousreply 53August 18, 2020 1:00 PM

I think Ellen might be Republican— reference he friendship with W. Just a guess. Ellen is syndicated, no? So the alt right deep state doesn’t have to go through all this to get Mary Hart a show of her own. If there are abuses within the show’s structure, she needs to own them, fix them or go home.

by Anonymousreply 54August 18, 2020 1:59 PM

[quote]she needs to own them, fix them or go home.

Well, she has been at home for six months, lol!

But, apparently, she just fired three people right below her and she promoted Twitch to co-producer. Yay Twitch!

Not sure if that will "fix" things ...

by Anonymousreply 55August 18, 2020 2:04 PM

I had no problem with any of it until they left them backstage soaking wet.

by Anonymousreply 56August 18, 2020 2:29 PM

All these real abusers in Hollywood and this is who the media wants to focus on? 🙄 Why don't they start doing their job and go after the real villains screwing us over.

by Anonymousreply 57August 18, 2020 2:32 PM

She didn't fire anyone R55. Warner Bros fired the producers.

by Anonymousreply 58August 18, 2020 4:28 PM

I’m sure they signed NDAs and were well paid for them

by Anonymousreply 59August 18, 2020 4:37 PM

NONE of the 'little' people who have worked with Ellen for close to two decades have come to her defense. NONE. She's the female Weinstein. Only she left the sexual abuse to her producers. Sex abuse by proxy.

She herself took care of the emotional abuse.

by Anonymousreply 60August 18, 2020 4:53 PM

R60, Why would they risk inciting the lynch mob on themselves? It would only make it worse. These people are not concerned with a Ellen’s or her producers’ behavior, they want to take a Ellen down.

by Anonymousreply 61August 18, 2020 5:03 PM

R35, Jimmy Kimmel is a straight white man that isn’t really a concern or target for SJWs. Ellen is a cis White lesbian and the sjws hate any cis white gay celebrity. She’s had a target on her back for years and she can’t please that crowd. Now they’re really noisy and have voices in the media.

Jimmys on hiatus so people willl think there’s something wrong with him and he can elicit sympathy. He loves that shit..

by Anonymousreply 62August 18, 2020 5:14 PM

Stop calling gays c-s, R62; or you’re part of the problem.

I have less than zero sympathy or respect for heterosexuals who whine about alleged abuse by homosexuals. On some level, this is karma for homophobia. Heterosexuals have hurt us for so goddamn long that it’s way past time somebody returned the favor.

Team Ellen 1000%. There is nothing that she did that is anywhere near as bad as what it still being done to gay people in many parts of the world right now. Attack the people who are attacking gays. Leave Ellen alone.

by Anonymousreply 63August 18, 2020 5:30 PM

R63, I'm just using their language. I personally dont like that madeup word.

by Anonymousreply 64August 18, 2020 5:42 PM

The Ellen apologists are pathetically hyperbolic. It's clear that this online campaign against Ellen came after her friendship with George Bush was revealed. People that wouldn't say a thing about her behavior had enough and everything started. It began with left wing comedians and verified accounts, so all this bullshit that there's some right wing orchestration is just BS, even that dutch trans woman Nikki Tutorials said on a Dutch TV show that Ellen was cold and mean. This is hardly a secret.

Comparing Ellen to Harvey is disingenuous though. She's a mean drunk and a phony and she's being called out for that. I think the blowback is proportional to her "crime". The poster equating what gays go through in the world with a millionaire dyke living in a mansion is laughable.

by Anonymousreply 65August 18, 2020 8:51 PM

r45, Yes, it is.

by Anonymousreply 66August 18, 2020 8:54 PM

R4, I would have told Santa to fuck off on that stormy Christmas Eve.

Really. Go to Home Depot and get yourselves some headlights, you big fat hypocritical fuck.

and I hope Ruldolph pooped all over them that night.

by Anonymousreply 67August 18, 2020 8:54 PM

At 2:22 you can see for yourself Nikki exposing Ellen's behavior, with English subtitles.

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by Anonymousreply 68August 18, 2020 9:03 PM

Thank god Disney got rid of that Ellen thing at Epcot a while ago. Before I knew anything about her except her name and face I thought she was cringeworthy in that ride. The female version of a used car salesman.

by Anonymousreply 69August 18, 2020 10:48 PM

R68, that's a man, baby. Ellen has every right to resent SOBs like him calling themselves women at the expense of real women like her.

by Anonymousreply 70August 18, 2020 11:35 PM

The narrator of R68's video sounds like my department supervisor.

by Anonymousreply 71August 19, 2020 3:04 AM
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