Inside Ellen DeGeneres’ New Life in the U.K. and What’s Next

On a Sunday afternoon in late July, Ellen DeGeneres walked onto the stage at the historic Cheltenham Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, England, to the tune of Harry Styles’ “You’re So Golden,” then sat in front of a crowd of nearly 700 people for a surprise Q&A session. During the event, the former talk show host — who’s remained mostly under the radar since ending her long-running chatfest in 2022 — discussed everything from her early days in showbiz to her 2020 fall from grace to what the future holds.

She also shed light on her recent decision to leave her beloved Montecito, California, neighborhood for greener pastures in the U.K. In November 2024, DeGeneres, 67, and her wife of 17 years, Portia de Rossi, 52, officially relocated to the Cotswolds — an idyllic region in the English count