The news came out this week that Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi have now permanently relocated to England post-election. Donald Trump “won” the presidency on November 5th and 6th, which means that Ellen and Portia made the decision pretty quickly to move, right? That’s something people were getting stuck on – Ellen is known for her love of real estate, and she owns (or owned) homes in LA, Montecito and Carpinteria. While The Wrap said that Ellen is putting her LA home on the market, what about her other real estate? And when did she buy this new home in the Cotswolds? Well, People Mag had an exclusive about all of that:
Ellen DeGeneres has relocated to the English countryside, a source tells PEOPLE. The former talk show host, whose long-running eponymous series ended in May 2022, has moved abroad after finding a house she fell in love with in the U.K.
“Ellen was in England house hunting in the beginning of October. She ended up finding a house that she loved and purchased it shortly after,” the source says. Just last week, Ellen and her wife, Portia de Rossi, were spotted at The Farmer’s Dog, a pub owned by the English TV presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson in the Cotswolds.
“They hung out with [Clarkson’s partner, actress] Lisa Hogan and James Blunt, and The Corrs performed at the pub,” the source adds. A representative for DeGeneres did not immediately reply to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
A real estate insider back in California tells PEOPLE that the couple sold their estate in the town of Carpinteria in August for $96 million.
DeGeneres is a well-known collector of multimillion-dollar homes, and owns several properties in Southern California. PEOPLE previously reported she sold a Montecito, Calif. home in May 2024 for $32 million after restoring it and another property in the same town she owned for less than a year in April 2022 for $15 million.
In a 2023 issue of The Riv, a local outlet, DeGeneres shared that she has bought and sold over 50 houses. Some of her other properties include a cottage she listed for $6 million in 2022, and a Malibu home that once belonged to Brad Pitt she purchased for $12 million back in 2011.
Wow, so even before Election Day, it looks like Ellen was already preparing for the worst (which happened). Sold the Montecito property in May, sold the Carpenteria property in August, and she was house-hunting in England in October. This says, to me, that while she was definitely worried about a Trump win, Ellen was already formulating a plan to relocate to England regardless. The Trump win just made it easier for her to cut ties with America, if that makes sense. Like, if Kamala Harris had won, I wonder if Ellen and Portia would have kept their LA home as an American base?
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Ellen hanging out with Jeremy Clarkson is on brand. Birds of a feather and all.
Yeah, that tidbit is gross and it’s totally on-brand for Ellen.
Has she emigrated? Or is she going to bop around a bit? Relocated is throwing me off: She can own property in another country (countries?), but where is her main residence? She’s rich enough to be spared a lot of the coming isht.
I am not sure how but I saw a news report that with Portia being Australian. It would make the path to British citizenship easier.
And she can live anywhere in the world. She still has to pay US taxes if she stays a US citizen.
Nice of Ellen and Portia to cut and run out on your community. If you don’t care about the lives of the LGBTQ+ community. Why should I? (I mean I do).
Ffs people it says clarksons partner.
Hanging out at Jeremy Clarkson’s? She has no loyalty.
Ya what the heck?? Weren’t Harry and Meghan at Portia’s birthday party?
Like I get sometimes friends can disagree about the character of other people, but not when someone publicly calls for your supposed friend to have excrement thrown at her as she parades naked down the street.
She showed us who she was, when she embraced Shrub and then got defensive about the criticism she received.
Of course she’s hanging around with Clarkson. How long until she’s the source of rumors about H&M and then the invitations to get-togethers with the Tampon King and Queen begin.
@Susannah, you have expressed my exact opinion. I think she is the source of most of the “Sussex divorce” and other curious inside Hollywood “sources” BM stories. No real friend of the Sussexes would be associated with Clarkson.
She’s running from the Diddy criminal case.
Agreed. Read “Jeremy Clarkson” and thought, “That’s all I need to know.”
Hmmm, they flee the US so they can hang with Clarkson?
Full coffee not yet on board, and here i was thinking I was gonna be reading an article about Tony Fauci from the thumbnail.
Ellen was naturally funny before she got too famous. I understand “riding the wave” but there was a noticeable difference in attitude when she got a stylist. She has always been “cutting” amd unfair in her fighting style. Yet, it wasnt until she changed her clothes that she lost all that old gratitude and humility.
Aside from her hanging out with Clarkson (ICK!), I do wonder what the real estate market sentiment is…those are two major properties that she is offloading, but perhaps that’s normal for her…Maybe I shouldn’t read too much into it.
If she’s bought and sold over 50 houses, I’d say that’s normal for her. I’ve managed to stay in one apartment for half my life and the thought of moving makes me want to lie down on the floor until the feeling passes.
Jeremy Clarkson? Ew, no. Are we going to get articles now about how Ellen is the new peacemaker? Please no.
I suspect she still has a house in the US. As for hanging out with Clarkson, not great but hopefully he took the opportunity to properly apologise to Meghan.
I keep hearing a clip from her Netflix special on the radio, and she is bitter about being cancelled.
If I could, I’d move to either New Zealand or Australia. I am terrible with learning a new language. I read yesterday on CNN that Italy is selling houses for one dollar to Americans upset with the election. I didn’t read it, but it was hilarious to me. Such a great idea! I’m sure Ellen’s digs cost a pretty penny, though.
Italy is playing footsie with fascism too. Their current PM is an admirer of Mussolini and lets the social conservatives do their work.