Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show comes back from its summer break this week. We’ve heard that Ellen and her wife Portia were traveling through much of the summer. Maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention, but it seems like they managed to keep it lowkey? Ellen opened up her show today by talking about her summer and how she and Portia visited Amsterdam and England too. Then she said that she and Portia spent an afternoon with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and baby Archie:
Ellen DeGeneres had a surprise visit with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during her summer trip to the U.K., she reveals on an upcoming episode of her talk show. The 61-year-old says she got to cradle baby Archie, telling her audience, “I fed Archie, I held Archie.” Jokes DeGeneres of the four-month-old, “He weighs 15 lbs., which is, the exchange rate, is 17 dollars here!”
DeGeneres also shared of Archie, “He looks like Harry — and he had more hair than I did at the time.”
Also during the preview, the talk show host reveals that she and her wife Portia de Rossi hope to partner with the royal couple on some conservation work. “Portia and I talked to them about all the conservation they are doing for wildlife. They are doing all this work in Botswana for elephants and I love that, and they like what I’m doing for the gorillas in Rwanda so we’re gonna all do something together,” explains the star.
DeGeneres also doubled down on her defense of the couple after they were criticized for taking private jets for their vacations around Europe. Back on August 20, Degeneres tweeted, “Imagine being attacked for everything you do, when all you’re trying to do is make the world better.” In the new clip, DeGeneres says of Meghan, 38, and Harry, 34, “They are amazing. They are the cutest couple and so down-to-earth. I see them get attacked and it’s not fair. They are just two of the most down-to-earth compassionate people, they’re doing so much good for the world.”
I’m including the clip below. It sounds like the Sussexes invited Ellen and Portia over to talk about wildlife conservation and such and they just happened to spend time with Archie too. Once again, I feel like Meghan probably just collapsed in relief when she heard Ellen’s American accent. The homesickness is real! Seriously, though, British tabloids: a lot of us are watching how you treat our American duchess and it really upsets us. At the US Open on Saturday, images of Meghan were flashed on the big screen on Arthur Ashe Stadium and everyone cheered for her.
Oh, and once again, we’re hearing that Archie is a little redhead who takes after Harry.
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I can’t wait to see some Archie pics! Remember how adorable Harry was as a kid?
Love it!
We all can imagine the heads that will explode when they announce a joint initiative for wildlife.
I can’t wait to see some new pics of Archie! Ellen was very sweet.
That picture of Archie…too funny. Hope the DDoS and Ellen do get together on a project. But all this “celebrity” is causing hater conniptions, tho. LOL!
I’m sure we’ll see a few pics of Archie on the South African tour! I can’t wait to see his little fluff of red hair!
who said the baby has red hair?
if he does that would be extremely rare, given that the red hair gene has to be in both parents and even then it still would be a recessive gene, with Meghan’s black side getting the lion’s share. Genetics are always unpredictable, could be anything anyway. Honestly I’d love the baby would have Meghan’s curly brown hair, imagine the meltdown of those racists in the palace. But also poor baby he’s the first mixed race UK royal, he’s gonna have to have a lot to deal with.
This might be news to a latent racist such as yourself, clay, but black people do have red hair.