Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi leaving U.S. after Trump win

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Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, are reportedly moving overseas after Donald Trump was re-elected U.S. president earlier this month.

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According to TMZ, sources close to the couple said they have decided to “get the hell out” of America as Trump gets set to resume his presidential duties early next year.

The couple bought a U.K. property before the election in Cotswolds, a rural area approximately two hours south of London, but they are “very disillusioned” with Trump’s victory.

After President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July, DeGeneres, 66, threw her support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.

“There’s nothing more powerful than a woman whose time has come!! I can’t wait for @KamalaHarris to be our next president,” the former talk show host wrote in an August Instagram post that was liked over 325,000 times.

In the leadup to the election, DeGeneres regularly shared supportive messages for Harris, who was looking to become America’s first woman president.

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But following Trump’s resounding victory, DeGeneres and de Rossi have listed their Montecito estate and friends tell The Wrap they “plan to never return to the United States.”

DeGeneres spoke recently about being “kicked out of show business” after reports of her bad behaviour on the set of her Ellen daytime show.

Back in 2020, former employees alleged that executive producers and other senior managers created a toxic work environment when the cameras weren’t rolling, according to a Buzzfeed report.

DeGeneres was accused of getting rid of employees who took medical leaves and, according to one viral social media post, allegedly fired someone for looking at her and speaking to her.

In her recently released For Your Approval standup special, DeGeneres addressed the controversy, revealing that she “decided to take up gardening.”

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“I got chickens. Let me see what else I can tell you about what’s been going on … Oh yeah, I got kicked out of show business … Yeah, the ‘be kind’ girl wasn’t kind. That was the headline,” she joked. “Had I ended my show by saying, ‘Go f*** yourselves,’ people would have been pleasantly surprised to find out I’m kind.”

During a Q&A portion of a show during her Ellen’s Last Stand…Up tour that took place back in July in Santa Rosa, Calif., DeGeneres was asked if she would return to acting and she said she was leaving Hollywood.

“Um, no,” DeGeneres answered, per PEOPLE and SFGate. “This is the last time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix special, I’m done …  I’m going bye-bye.”

But that didn’t stop her from being vocal about politics.

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After she encouraged followers to “vote like our lives depend on it” in the leadup to the Nov. 5 election with a social media post supporting Harris, DeGeneres’ Instagram was flooded by a wave of commenters in favour of Trump.

“We can’t have another four years of the current administration. America won’t be the same,” one person wrote. “I wish you rich celebrities could relate to the American people and our struggles. TRUMP 2024.”

“Didn’t Ellen say she’d leave the country if trump is elected?? 

,” one user commented on a follow-up Instagram post

she shared on Nov. 7 in which DeGeneres posted a throwback clip from her show that she said showed “humans being good to each other.”

DeGeneres isn’t the only celebrity who said she would leave the U.S. if Trump was re-elected.

Back in 2016, during Trump’s first presidential campaign, actress Whoopi Goldberg said if he won that “maybe it (would be) time for me to move.”

Rapper Snoop Dogg shared a photo of the CN Tower and asked Drake for some help buying property in Toronto.

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Pop star Miley Cyrus said “I am moving if (Trump) is my president! I don’t say things I don’t mean!”

Meanwhile, Cher promised to not only leave the United States, but to leave the planet all together. She tweeted, “IF HE WERE TO BE ELECTED, IM MOVING TO JUPITER.” 

Actor Samuel L. Jackson threatened to move back to Africa.

But with her move to the U.K., DeGeneres is the only celebrity to actually leave the country.

Despite Harris’ celebrity backers, voters were clearly in favour of another Trump presidency. The 78-year-old Republican won the Electoral College 312 to 226. The popular vote came out to 76,861,113 for Trump and 74,326,235 for Harris.

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